LF:ZLLT0222s Bas.Med.Terminology II-sem.

ZLLT0222s Basic Medical Terminology II - seminar

Faculty of Medicine
Spring 2017

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Lucie Mazalová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Jan Slíva, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Libor Švanda, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Veronika Dvořáčková, Ph.D. (assistant)
PhDr. Jana Vyorálková (assistant)
Mgr. Kateřina Pořízková, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)

Guaranteed by

Mgr. Libor Švanda, Ph.D.
Language Centre, Faculty of Medicine Division – Language Centre
Contact Person: Mgr. Libor Švanda, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Language Centre, Faculty of Medicine Division – Language Centre

Prerequisites

ZLLT0121c Bas. Med. Terminology I -p && ZC011 Handling chemical substances
Passing the course Basic medical Terminology I

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

Dentistry (eng.) (programme LF, M-ZL)
Dentistry (programme LF, M-ZL) (2)

Course objectives

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 required in the examination, exclusively determined by the needs of the discipline and medical practice. First of all, it provides such knowledge of Latin and Greek which enables the student to master quickly and purposefully the semantic aspect of terms, their grammatical form, and word-forming structure. At the same time, 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. Furthermore, 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:

understand and use Latin and Greek-Latin medical terms and expressions correctly

explain and apply grammatical devices and rules relevant for acquisition of Greek-Latin medical terminology

recognize the syntactic structure of complex terms

describe the semantic structure of one-word terms

form compound words applying the most used word-formation principles

translate selected expressions from anatomy, pre-clinical and clinical fields of study, medical prescriptions, and pharmacology

deduce the meaning of unknown terms on the basis of semantic, grammatical and logical relations

Syllabus

BASIC MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY - seminar
The course is complementary to VLLT0222s Basic Medical Terminology II - practice.
1st week: Numerals in clinical diagnoses. Terminology related to fractures.
2nd week: Case history and its components. Lexical devices for expressing colour.
3rd week: Terminology prerequisites of professional communication between a doctor and a pharmacist. Terminology related to sex.
4th week: Factual and formal grammatical structure of a medical prescription. Terminology related to age and stages of life.
5th week: Basic vocabulary from pharmacology: subscription, forms of pharmaceutical preparations, groups of medicaments, pharmaceutical substances. Terms describing facial expressions.
6th week: Progress test. Terms describing various types of wounds and injuries.
7th week: Specific features of clinical terminology. Terms denoting various types of fever.
8th week: Post-mortem diagnosis as an example of authentic application of Latin in medical practice. Phrases related to death.
9th week: Examples of autopsy protocols. Terms used for expressing location and position.
10th week: Terms for various types of diagnoses and prognoses. Terms related to heartbeat.
11th week: Terms for various types of therapies. Terms denoting inflammations.
12th week: Examples from clinical documentation. Terms denoting anatomical planes.
13th week: Borrowed words of Latin and Greek origin: sound adaptation and orthography. Revision.
14th week: Credit test.

Literature

required literature

MAREČKOVÁ, Elena, Hana REICHOVÁ, Libor ŠVANDA, Natália GACHALLOVÁ, Tereza ŠEVČÍKOVÁ, Kamila NOVOTNÁ, Jan SLÍVA and Lucie MAZALOVÁ. Úvod do lékařské terminologie. Základy latiny s přihlédnutím k řečtině. 7., přeprac. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2017, 226 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-8699-9. info

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