LF:EMLT0222s Basic Medical Terminology - Course Information
EMLT0222s Basic Medical Terminology - practice
Faculty of Medicinespring 2024
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Libor Švanda, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Veronika Dvořáčková, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Kateřina Pořízková, Ph.D. (assistant)
PhDr. Jana Vyorálková (assistant) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Libor Švanda, Ph.D.
Language Centre, Faculty of Medicine Division – Faculty Branches of University Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Mgr. Libor Švanda, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Language Centre, Faculty of Medicine Division – Faculty Branches of University Departments – Faculty of Medicine - Timetable
- Thu 22. 2. to Thu 9. 5. Thu 9:50–10:40 B11/211, Thu 23. 5. to Thu 30. 5. Thu 9:50–10:40 B11/211
- Prerequisites
- EMLT0121s Basic Medical Terminology
Passing the course Basic medical Terminology - seminar - 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
- Specialist for Clinical Embryology and Assisted Reproduction Technology (programme LF, M-EZ)
- 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 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
- understand and use Latin and Greek-Latin medical terms and expressions correctly
- Syllabus
- BASIC MEDICAL LATIN - practice
- The course is complementary to VLLT0222s Basic Medical Terminology II - seminar.
- 1st week: Instructions for the course. Revision of substantive and adjective declensions. Numerals.
- 2nd week: Numerals: objects next to numerals.
- 3rd week: Verbs (1): infinitive, imperative, present passive subjunctive.
- 4th week: Verbs (2): present active and perfect passive participles, gerundive, gerund.
- 5th week: Revision of numerals and verbs.
- 6th week: Progress test.
- 7th week: Word Formation (1): basic rules of derivation. Latin prefixes, their meanings and mutual relations.
- 8th week: Latin suffixes (substantival, adjectival).
- 9th week: Greek prefixes, their meanings and mutual relations. Synonymy, antonymy, polysemy, and homonymy of prefixes.
- 10th week: Greek suffixes, polysemy of suffixes.
- 11th week: Word Formation (2): basic rules of composition, combining morphemes. Latin compound words, hybrid words.
- 12th week: Greek compound words, productive word-forming components. Latin and Greek equivalents of basic medical terms.
- 13th week: Revision for the credit test.
- 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
- recommended literature
- KÁBRT, Jan. Lexicon medicum. Třetí, doplněné a přepr. Praha: Galén, 2015, 917 stran. ISBN 9788074922008. info
- Bookmarks
- https://is.muni.cz/ln/tag/LF:EMLT0222s!
- Teaching methods
- lectures, translation and grammar exercises, drills, group work, homework, presentation
- Assessment methods
- Practical examination (demonstration of proficiency)
- Credit test
- Practical examination (demonstration of proficiency)
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 15.
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