LF:BALT011 Medical Latin - practice - Course Information
BALT011 Medical Terminology and Medical Latin - practice
Faculty of MedicineAutumn 2017
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Jan Slíva, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Veronika Dvořáčková, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Kateřina Pořízková, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Libor Švanda, 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 – Language Centre - 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 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
- Midwife (programme LF, B-PA)
- Course objectives
- Medical Latin has the character of a preparatory subject whose sense is to facilitate for the students basic orientation in the professional language. The conception of tuition specifies three main tasks: to provide elementary technical vocabulary where nouns and adjectives predominate; to provide instruction in the regular nominal inflexion, and to introduce into the theory of word formation on a professional level. This is complemented with with a getting knowledge of medical prescription Latin, and an informative view of select topics in the theory and history of medical terminology.
- Learning outcomes
- At the end of the course students should be able to:
- recognize and explain grammatical devices and rules relevant for acquisition of Greek-Latin medical terminology;
- translate expressions from particular field of studies;
- employ and understand basic medical terminology;
- recognize the semantic structure of selected anatomical and clinical terms;
- form compound words applying particular word-formation principles;
- explain syntactic structure of complex terms.
- recognize and explain grammatical devices and rules relevant for acquisition of Greek-Latin medical terminology;
- Syllabus
- MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY AND LATIN - practice. Syllabus.
- 1st lesson: Introduction to the study of the subject: significance and contents of the course, methodological instructions, study literature. General grammatical notes. Latin and Greek nouns of 1st and 2nd declension: the nominative and genitive case. Adjectives of 1st and 2nd declension. Latin ordinals.
- 2nd lesson: Latin Nouns and Adjectives of 3rd declension: the nominative and genitive case. Basic rules of derivation: Latin suffixes with the meaning of relationship.
- 3rd lesson: Latin nouns of 4th and 5th declension: the nominative and genitive case. Latin diminutives. Basic rules of derivation: the Greek sufix -ideus, a, um.
- 4rd lesson: Latin prepositions with accusative and ablative. Greek nouns in medical terminology.
- 5th lesson: Basic rules of derivation: productive Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes. Semantics. Basic rules of composition: the most frequently used Latin and Greek word-forming components. Final summary. Requirements for the examination.
- Literature
- required literature
- ARTIMOVÁ, Jozefa, Kateřina POŘÍZKOVÁ, Libor ŠVANDA and Eva DÁVIDOVÁ. Terminologia graeco-latina medica pro studijní obor porodní asistentka (Terminologia graeco-latina medica for students of midwifery). 1. vydání. Brno: MUNI Press, 2016, 145 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-8287-8. Optimed Repo info
- POŘÍZKOVÁ, Kateřina, Jozefa ARTIMOVÁ, Libor ŠVANDA and Eva DÁVIDOVÁ. Terminologia graeco-latina medica pro bakalářské obory LF MU (Gramatická příručka) (Terminologia graeco-latina medica for bachelor's degree study programmes at Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University (Grammar Book)). 1. vydání. Brno: MUNI Press, 2016, 56 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-8286-1. Optimed Repo info
- not specified
Povinná literatura ke stažení
- Bookmarks
- https://is.muni.cz/ln/tag/LF:BALT011!
- Teaching methods
- lectures
- translation and grammar exercises
- homework exercises (e-learning)
- lectures
- Assessment methods
- Final examination - combined form
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: celkem 10.
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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