Foreign Languages, Latin Language and the Fundamentals of Medical
Terminology Chair
Latin Language and the Fundamentals of Medical Terminology Course
Practical skills
on Latin Language and the fundamentals of medical terminology
for the 1 – st year students of stomatological department
 fluent reading of the medical Latin text
 practical usage of the Latin alphabet while dealing with the dictionary
 practical usage of Greek letter – combinations in the words of Greek origin and
their correct spelling in medical terms
 correct spelling of the Latin alphabet sounds and Latin medical terms
 easy mastering of lexical material and words’ classification due to the
declensions correspondingly poiting correct endings
 to be able to translate from Latin into English and from English into Latin
anatomic, histologic, pharmaceutic and clinical terms using recieved grammar
knowledge
 practical usage of the prescription structure rules while prescribing the Latin part
of prescription and solving pharmaceutic tasks
 to be able to form the Latin names of acids, oxides, salts, compound ethers
 automatic prescribing of the remedy names with the term-elements indicating
chemical structure of substance and term – elements of therapeutic, anatomic,
physiologic and pharmacologic character
 to be able to translate the most often used special prescription expressions
 to be able to prescribe full and shortened forms of prescriptions
 correct usage on practice medical terms with Latin (Greek) prefixes
 automatic apprehension and spelling of the Greek (Latin) origin compound terms
 easy mastering of the Greek (Latin) origin term – elements as the components of
the compound clinical terms
 easy construction of the Greek (Latin) origin compound terms
 to be able to translate the main clinical diagnoses
 practical usage of the most often used Latin aphorisms