LATIN MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

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LATIN MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

• Introduction
• Requirements
• History of Latin medical terminology
• Structure of Latin medical terminology
• Required introductory grammar

• Mgr. Karel Cerný
• Institution
• Ústav dejin lékarství a cizích jazyku 1. LF UK
• Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign
  Languages
• Address
• Katerinská 32
• 120 00 Praha 2
• (entrance street Katerinska, the same building
  as the foreign student office dpt., via library)?
• http//udl.lf1.cuni.cz/
• karel.cerny_at_lf1.cuni.cz
• phone [phone]

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Required textbook

• Dana Svobodová, An Introduction to Greco-Latin
  Medical Terminology, Prague (Nakladatelství
  Karolinum) 2002.
• Available at
• booksellers
• Wimmer (Lipová street in vicinity of General
  hospital)?
• Karolinum (Celetná street, within reach of
  underground stations Mustek or Námestí
  republiky)?
• library of the faculty (Na bojišti street, 1st
  underground floor)?

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REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESFULL COMPLETION OF THE
COURSE

• Latin terminology is a two terms course with
  obligatory credit in the end of both and an exam
  in the end of the summer term.
• Two ways of obtaining a credit
• a) if all tests during a term are successful AND
  the attendance is satisfactory (two or less
  lessons missed) you will receive a credit
  without additional conditions in the credit
  week
• b) if any of previous conditions is not met you
  have to write a credit test during the credit
  week (three attempts are allowed)?

• Exam conditions
• both credits are required
• three attempts are allowed, the 3rd one must be
  with different examinator than previous two
• exam consists of two parts
• written test
• spoken examination.
• Further details about credits and exams can be
  found here http//udl.lf1.cuni.cz/
• Consultations
• During the therm or the examination period
  available on request.

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HISTORY OF LATIN MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

• Greek foundation of a rational science
• Roman empire
• Hippokrates and Galen
• medieval era
• renaissance and scientific revolution
• transition to modern era
• birth of modern medical sciences in the end of
  the 19th century
• future of medical terminology

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Structure of Latin-Greek Medical Terminology

• Grammatical structure
• nouns (substantivum, divided to 5 declensions)?
• adjectives (adiectivum, two major groups, 3
  dec-lensions)?
• prepositions (praepositiones)?
• verbs (only imperativus)?
• numerals (numeralia, cardinal and ordinal
  numerals)?
• Greek grammar (3 declensions to limited extent)?
• Lexical structure
• Latin vocabulary
• Greek vocabulary
• one-word composed terms

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Nouns

• Nouns are divided to declensions indicated in
  textbook using Roman numerals I. - V.
• Every declension consist of six grammatical cases
  in singular and plural. 5th and 3rd case are not
  used in Medical Terminology
• Names of cases
• 1. nominativus (nominative)?
• 2. genitivus (genitive/possessive case)?
• 4. accusativus (accusative/objective case)?
• 6. ablativus (ablative)?

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Adjectives, prepositions, numerals, verbs

• adjectives use the same system of cases (and
  suffixes) as Latin nouns limited to I. - III.
  declension
• prepositions consist of three groups and are
  indeclinable
• numerals two groups, partially indeclinable
• verbs only imperative is required