A Course in MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY – LATIN
lecturer: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jana Přívratská
Ist year - Winter Term, 2 lessons per week
assessment: credit, exam
Week:
Topic:
1
The development of medical terminology in its historical context; methods of study;
programme of the course. Basic Latin grammatical terminology. Latin word categories.
Forming up a word. Flexion. Pronunciation and intonation.
2
Declension of Latin nouns and adjectives: 1st declension. Prepositions used with the
accusative and the ablative case. Vocabulary - basic rules.
3
Declension of Latin nouns and adjectives: 2nd declension. Ordinal numbers. The
structure of an anatomical term.
4
Declension of Latin nouns and adjectives: 4th and 5th declension. Verb esse. Living
phrases. Test (1st and 2nd decl.)
5
Declension of Latin nouns: 3rd declension - imparisyllaba (dolor - operatio - caput).
6
Declension of Latin nouns: 3rd declension - parisyllaba (pelvis). Greek nouns in the
Latin declension (3rd declension): ureter - basis - trauma; terminological classification
of illness: -itis, -osis, -oma. Diagnosis clinica.
7
Revision of the 1-5 declension nouns (test). Greek nouns in the Latin declension (1st
and 2nd declension): systole - diabetes - bronchos - kranion.
8
3rd declension adjectives. (1-3 termination adjectives). Combining a noun with an
adjective. Prepositional cases.
9
Comparison of adjectives (comparative and superlative degree). Irregular comparison.
Defective comparison. Periphrastic comparison.
10
Adverbs (a brief survey). Numerals (Latin and Greek). Medical abbreviations.
11
Basic characteristics of the verb. Infinitive, imperative, conjunctive. Participles (present
active and past passive).
12
Prefixes and suffixes (Latin and Greek). English equivalents.
13
Compounds (noun + noun; noun + adjective; noun + verb; adverb + verb; numeral +
noun; multiplied compounds; hybrids). Derivatives. English derivation of a medical
term on the basis of Latin.
14
Revision of grammar and vocabulary. Linguistic analysis of a complex medical term
into morphological components; creating meaningful units; creating medical concepts.
15
Credit test. Consultations.
Literature:
An Introduction to Greco-Latin Medical Terminology / Dana Svobodová. - 2nd ed. - Praha: Karolinum, 1997.
Medical Terminology: A short course /Davi-Ellen Chabner – Philadelphia/London : W.B. Saunders Comp., 1991