aZLLT0121c Basic Medical Terminology I - practice

Faculty of Medicine
Autumn 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/1. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jozefa Artimová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Natália Gachallová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Tereza Ševčíková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Robert Helán, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Kateřina Pořízková, Ph.D. (assistant)
PhDr. Jana Vyorálková (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Jozefa Artimová, Ph.D.
Language Centre, Faculty of Medicine Division – Language Centre
Contact Person: Mgr. Jozefa Artimová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Language Centre, Faculty of Medicine Division – Language Centre
Timetable of Seminar Groups
aZLLT0121c/40: No timetable has been entered into IS. N. Gachallová
aZLLT0121c/41: No timetable has been entered into IS. N. Gachallová
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of Latin will facilitate the study of the subject and may be regarded as a useful component of the educational outfit of students when entering the faculty, though it is no obligatory prerequisite for the acquisition of the university subject matter in the introductory phase.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
General characteristics of the subject: Greek-Latin medical terminology is one of the relevant means for acquisition of the target knowledge of medical students. The tuition is of both theoretic and practical character, conceived as a preparatory course sui generis, introducing the students into the study of medicine by means of its language.
The content of tuition is, like the set of knowledge postulated in the examination, exclusively determined by the needs of the discipline and medical practice. In the first place it provides such knowledge of Latin and/or Greek as enables the student to master quickly and purposefully the semantic aspect of terms, their grammatical form, and word-forming structure. Simultaneously it provides systematic instruction to independent solution of current terminological problems consisting in understanding of the technical content of the terms and in the formation of medical terms. Besides this it opens a view of the wider historical and linguistic fundamentals of medical terminology as well as its general theoretical contexts.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students should be able to:
use Latin and Greek-Latin medical terminology and expressions correctly and understand them;
recognize and explain grammatical devices and rules relevant for acquisition of Greek-Latin medical terminology;
explain syntactic structure of complex terms;
recognize the semantic structure of selected anatomical and clinical one-word terms;
form compound words applying the most used word-formation principles;
translate selected expressions from anatomy and pre-clinical and clinical fields of study.
Syllabus
  • BASIC MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY - practice. Syllabus.
  • An obligatory part of each class is practising and testing of knowledge acquired during the seminars.
  • 1st week: Checking the level of initial knowledge.
  • 2nd week: The language of medicine with its functions and characteristics. Medical terms, their etymology and definition.Renowned personalities of medicine in ancient history, historical aspects of medical terminology against the background of the history of medicine.
  • 3rd week: History of anatomical nomenclature : BNA, JNA, PNA.
  • 4th week: General terms and terms denoting parts and regions of the human body.
  • 5th week: Names of bones and terms describing the skeletal system.
  • 6th week: Latin in medical documentation. The history of medical record, its characteristics and present form.
  • 7th week: Terms denoting simple types of fractures.
  • 8th week: Terms denoting number in anatomy and clinical terminology. Fractures of fingers, ribs and vertebras.
  • 9th week: Internal organs, main terms from splanchnology.
  • 10th week: Introduction to word-formation, basic principles of derivation, the most productive Latin suffixes. Terms denoting inflammatory and non-inflammatory diseases using systematic suffixes -itis and -osis.
  • 11th week: Terms denoting the oncogenic diseases. Diagnoses containing expressions suspicio a suspectus, a, um.
  • 12th week: Diminutives in anatomical terminology. Derivation of adjectives using suffix -ideus, a, um and expression of the forms and shapes similarities.
  • 13th week: Revision.
  • 14th week: Credit test.
Literature
    required literature
  • PRUCKLOVÁ, Renata - SEVEROVÁ, Marta. Introduction to Latin and Greek Terminology in Medicine. Prague: Koniasch Latin Press, 2012. ISBN 978-80-86791-24-1
    recommended literature
  • BUJALKOVÁ, Mária - Anna JUREČKOVÁ. Introduction to Latin medical terminology. 1. vyd. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2013. 148 s. ISBN 978-80-223-3394-8
  • Atlas of anatomy : Latin nomenclature. Edited by Anne Marie Gilroy - Brian R. MacPherson - Lawrence M. Ross - Michael S. New York: Thieme Medical, 2009, xv, 656. ISBN 9781604060997. info
Bookmarks
https://is.muni.cz/ln/tag/LF:aZLLT0121c!
Teaching methods
lectures, translation and grammar exercises, drills, homework
Assessment methods
Requirements for gaining the credit: regular class attendance, active participation in class, preparation for classes, sitting class tests (twice per semester) and a credit test. The basic limit for passing all tests is 70%. Passing each of the class test, which is obligatory for all students, reduces the basic limit in the credit test by 5%. Only one unexcused absence will be tolerated; further absences must be properly excused (i.e. via the Study Department of the Faculty of Medicine).
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, autumn 2018, autumn 2019, autumn 2020.
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