Latin Medical Terminology - DA0101331

• Title: Latin Medical Terminology
• Guaranteed by: Department of Languages (13-821)
• Faculty: Second Faculty of Medicine
• Actual: from 2020
• Semester: winter
• Points: 4
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]; summer s.:0/2, C+Ex [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 28 [weeks]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown); summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: Mgr. Eliška Králová
• Classification: Medicine > Auxiliary Subjects
• Interchangeability : DA0101332
• Is co-requisite for: DA0101334, DA0101335, DA0102037, DA0101333

Annotation

Last update: HABET (22.01.2014)

Basic gramatic rules, forming and understanding medical terms in anatomy and other medical branches.

Literature

Last update: GYNOVAE (15.09.2017)

Svobodová, D.: An introduction to Greco-latin medical terminology : Karolinum, 2006 (A)

Rice, J.: Medical terminology with human anatomy, East Norwalk, 1991

Wistreich, G. A.: Medical terminology in action, Wm. C. Brown, 1994

W. B. Saunders company : Medical dictionary, 1981

Woodhouse, S. C.: Latin dictionary, Routledge, 1991 (B)

Prucklová, R.: Introduction to latin and greek terminology in medicine : Brno, 2007

Syllabus

Last update: PROCHAK1 (04.11.2016)

Winter semester:

1. A survey of ancient and medieval medicine and the development of its terminology. Introduction to grammar.

Spelling and pronunciation, length of syllables, accent. Cases.

2. Latin declensions - introduction. Latin prepositions.

1st declension - Nouns and adjectives. Prepositions used with accusative and ablative cases.

3. 2nd Latin declension.

Nouns used with adjectives. 2nd declension Greek neuters.

4. 4th Latin declension.

Deverbatives. Supine stem.

5. 5th declension.

The verb esse and its derivatives.

6. 1st and 2nd Greek declensions.

Greek terms in medical terminology, the history of their introduction into Latin. Examples of most common Greek terms.

7. Revision.

1st revision test.

8. 3rd Latin declension - imparisyllabic words - masculines and feminines.

Their use with adjectives.

9. 3rd Latin declension - imparisyllabic words - neutres.

10. Parisyllabic words.

Their use with adjectives. Summary of 3rd Latin declension.

11. 3rd Greek declension.

Nouns and adjectives. Comparison with Latin equivalents.

12. Revision of 3rd declension.

2nd revision test.

13. 3rd declension - adjectives.

Names of the most common remedies and their declension.

Summer semester:

1. Regular comparison of adjectives.

Their use and specific features in medical terminology.

2. Irregular, defective and periphrastic comparison of adjectives.

3. Numerals.

Latin and Greek numerals. Their use with nouns.

4. Latin verbs in medical terminology.

Imperative, present subjunctive. Instructions, commands and prohibitions in medical terminology.

5. Latin participles.

Their types and function in medical terminology.

6. Revision.

1st revision test.

7. Ways of creating and the development of medical terminology.

8. Latin and Greek prefixes - their meaning.

9. Latin and Greek suffixes and their specific meaning in medical terminology.

10. Morphology of medical terminology.

11. Latin and Greek composed words, hybrids.

12. Medical prescriptions.

The most common abbreviations and simple instructions.

13. Revision.

2nd revision test.