Basic Medical Terminology II

WEEK 2

COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES

This week is dedicated to the last grammatical topic not covered in autumn semester which is relevant for understanding medical terminology - comparative and superlative forms (section 2.2 of BMT II_handouts).

After this week, you should understand how these forms are regularly created from the original adjective, what declensions and paradigms we use to inflect these, and how they work in a sentence.

You should also be familiar with the several irregular forms used in anatomy, especially:

major/majus - maximus,/a/um

minor/minus - minimus/a/um

and the comparative and superlative forms specifying position of a structure, as well as how to use these in a sentence:

posterior/posterius - postremus/a/um; 

anterior/anterius; superior/superius - supremus/a/um; 

inferior/inferius - infimus/a/um; 

interior/interius - i(nti)mus/a/um

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https://is.muni.cz/el/med/jaro2021/aZLLT0222s/um/in-class_presentations/SS_02_Comparison_diminutives.pptx
Section 2 KEY
COMPARATIVES AND SUPERLATIVES
Quizlet BMT II
DIMINUTIVE FORMS IN ANATOMY
In this week, we will also shortly discuss the so-called diminutive forms, i.e. words the suffix of which suggests that they refer to SMALL STRUCTURES (section 2.3 of BMT II_handouts).


With these, you should be aware of the principles of their formation, their declensions (not dependent on the declension fo the original noun), as well as gender (always the same as of the original noun): 

For instance,

ductus, us, m. = duct; in anatomy there is also a word ductulus, i. m. that refers to a small duct (the -ulus suffix suggests a small structure). 

Notice the change in declension: regardless of the declension of the original noun, a diminutive form always falls under 1st or 2nd declension, depending on the gender of the original noun, i.e. ductus is male, therefore, its diminutive form ends in -us and falls under the nervus paradigm

Exercise 1 (Section 2 Handout) - Group Sort
Exercise 5 (Section 2 Handout) - True or False
Exercise from the Presentation - Slide 21 - Unjumble
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