QUESTIONNAIRE
OF
MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY / LATIN IN MEDICINE
For Educational Qualification degree: master of medicine
Speciality: MEDICINE, English language education
First year
1. Alphabet. Pronunciation.
a) Peculiarities of Latin pronunciation.
2.
Quantity of Vowels. Syllables. Quantity Of Syllables. Accent.
3.
Elements of the contemporary medical terminology.
a)
Nouns
b)
Adjectives
4. Inflection. Cases used in the medical terminology.
5. Dictionary entry of nouns. Stem and base.
6. Composed words.
7. Basic characteristics of anatomical and pharmaceutical terminology.
8. First declension. Suffixes.
a) Nouns and adjectives.
9. Clinical terminology.
a) Basic Greek roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in clinical terminology.
10. Second declension.
a) Nouns of masculine gender.
b) Adjectives of masculine gender.
11. Nouns of neuter gender of the second declension.
a)
Adjectives of neuter gender of the second declension.
12. First and second declension adjectives.
13. Diagnoses of the First and Second Declension.
14. Third declension: general characteristic.
15. Third declension consonant stems.
16. Third declension pure i-stems.
17. Mixed i-stems.
18. Use of suffixes and prepositions with nouns of the third declension.
19. Third declension adjectives.
a) Present active participle.
20. Diagnoses of the Third Declension.
21. Comparison of adjectives.
a) Regular comparison of adjectives.
b) Irregular comparison of adjectives.
22. Fourth declension.
a)
b)
23.
nouns of masculine gender.
nouns of neuter gender.
Numerals and their use in medical
terminology.
24. Fifth declension.
25. Diagnoses of the Fourth and Fifth Declensions.
26. Latin prepositions and their use as prefixes.
27. Greek and latin equivelents of colors.
28. Some adverbs and verbs used in medical terminology.
29. Medical prescriptions.
a) Prescription writing – principal parts of a written prescription
b) Prescription abbreviations.
30.
Types and forms of medicinal preparations.
31.
Key terms of:
a) Cavitas cranii.
b) Systema digestorium.
32.
Some abbreviations used in medical terminology.
a) Some Latin abbreviations used in English.
33. Latin sayings and phrases.
The acknowledgement and assessment of the accomplished results is done by a final
written test.
SOURCES
(AUTHORS AND WORKS)
TEXTBOOK RECOMMENDED:
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“Медицина и физкултура”, 2003
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физкултура”, 1983
Большой толковый Медицинский Словарь Oxford (Oxford Concise Medical
Dictionary), том І – ІІ, ВЕЧЕ – АСТ, Москва, 1999, ISBN 5-7838-0242-5 (Вече Act)
Дворецкий, И. Латинско-Руский Словарь. Москва, издателство “Руский Язьiк”,
1976
Энцеклопедический словарь медицинских терминов. Том І - ІІІ, Москва, 984
Кръстева, И. И П. Стоянова, Lingua Pharmaceutica. София 1999
Николова, В. и И. Колева, Lingua Latina medicinalis. София, издателство “Ciela”, 2004
Трипел, Х., Анатомичен речник. Издателство “Наука и изкуство”, 1949
Chabner, Davi-Ellen, The Language of Medicine, A Short Course, 4th edition, W. B.
Saunders Company, 2005, ISBN 1-4160-0165-4
Chabner, Davi-Ellen, The Language of Medicine, 6th edition, W. B. Saunders Company,
2001, ISBN 0-7216-8569-2
Jenney’s First Year Latin, Copyright 1984, ISBN 0-205-07859-1
Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary, Merriam-Webster On line,
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
New Latin Grammar, Allen and Greenough, Boston, USA, and London, Ginn & Company,
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Oxford Latin Dictionary, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1968