Curriculum of Practical Lessons
on Latin Language and the fundamentals
of Medical terminology for the 1 – st year students of
medical department for 2015 – 2016 academic year
Theme
Hours
MODULE I
1. Phonetics.
Latin alphabet.
The main rules of pronunciation.
2
2. The main Greek roots and suffixes that are often used in medical
terminology.
The vocabulary form of Latin nouns.
2
3. Phonetics. Stress.
2
4. Morphology. Nouns.
Grammatical categories.
The vocabulary form of Latin nouns.
5 declensions.
The regular case - terminations of 1-5 declensions.
2
5. Morphology. Nouns.
Declension of the nouns of 1-5 declensions.
Disagreed attribute.
2
6. Morphology. Adjective.
Grammatical categories.
Groups and declensions of adjectives.
2
7. Morphology. Adjective.
Agreement of adjectives with nouns.
Agreed attribute.
Declension of word combination “noun + adjective”.
2
8. Morphology. Adjective.
Adjectives of comparative degree in medical terminology.
Preparing for control of thematic module № 1.
2
9. Control of thematic module №1.
Morphology. Noun.
Third declension, its peculiarities.
Nouns of masculine.
Exceptions from the rule of gender.
2
10. Morphology. Noun.
3-rd declension.
Nouns of feminine.
2
Exceptions from the rule of gender.
11. Morphology. Noun.
3-rd declension.
Nouns of neuter.
Exceptions from the rule of gender.
2
12. Agreement of adjectives and nouns of the third declension.
Declension of word combination “noun + adjective”.
Preparing for control of thematic module № 2.
2
13. Translation of anatomic terms from Latin into English, from
English into Latin.
Control of thematic module №2.
2
14. Word- building (part I, II).
2
15. Word- building (part III, IV).
Preparing for control of thematic module №3.
2
16. Control of thematic module №3.
Preparing for control of Final Module I
2
17. Control of Final Module I
2
MODULE II
18. Pharmaceutical terminology.
Fundamental pharmaceutical conceptions.
Trivial (conventional) names of medicaments.
Methods of forming medicament trivial names.
Imperative of Latin verbs used in pharmaceutical terminology
2
19. Pharmaceutical terminology.
Latin nomenclature of remedy forms.
Solid remedy forms.
Fluid remedy forms.
Soft remedy forms.
2
20. Pharmaceutical terminology.
Officinal remedy forms used abroad.
Remedy forms used abroad but do not detached in separated
groups in our country.
2
21. Prescription.
The structure of prescription.
2
22. Two ways of prescribing of tablets, suppositories, membranes
and sugar-coated pills.
The verb “fio”, fieri”, its place in prescription.
2
Conception of term-element (TE).
Term-elements indicating chemical structure of medicaments
(I).
23. Term elements of therapeutic, anatomic, physiological and
pharmacological character (2).
2
24. The names of oils used in medical terminology.
Special prescription expressions.
2
25. The names of plants used in medical terminology.
The names of plants’ organs (parts).
Preparing for control of thematic module №4.
2
26.
Control of thematic module №4.
International chemical nomenclature.
The names of chemical elements.
2
27. International chemical nomenclature.
The names of acids.
The names of oxides,peroxides, hydroxides.
The names of salts.
Cardinal and ordinal numerals.
The Latin and Greek numeral prefixes in the names of
remedies.
2
28. The most important prescription abbreviations.
Prescriptions “ex tempore”.
Preparing for control of thematic module №5.
2
29. Control of thematic module №5.
Clinical terminology.
The main Greek (Latin) term- elements in clinical terminology
(1).
2
30. Clinical terminology.
The main Greek (Latin) term- elements in clinical terminology
(2).
2
31. Clinical terminology.
The main Greek (Latin) term-elements in clinical terminology
(3).
2
32. Clinical terminology.
The main Greek (Latin) term-elements in clinical terminology
(4).
2
33. Clinical terminology.
The main Greek (Latin) term-elements in clinical terminology
(5).
Systematization of Greek (Latin) term-elements.
Preparing for control of thematic module №6.
2
34. Control of thematic module №6.
Preparing for control of Final Module №2.
2
35. Control of Final Module №2.
2