LATIN MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

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LATIN MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

• Introduction, contact information
• Requirements
• Structure of Latin medical terminology
• Required introductory grammar

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Contact information

• Mgr. Karel Cerný, Ph.D.
• Institution
• Ústav dejin lékarství a cizích jazyku 1. LF UK
• Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign
  Languages 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles
  University
• Address
• Katerinská 32
• 120 00 Praha 2
• (entrance via foreign students office and
  library)
• http//udl.lf1.cuni.cz/
• karel.cerny_at_lf1.cuni.cz
• phone [phone]

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Required textbook

• Dana Svobodová, An Introduction to Greco-Latin
  Medical Terminology, Prague (Nakladatelství
  Karolinum) 2002.
• Available at
• booksellers
• Wimmer (Lipová street in vicinity of General
  hospital)
• Karolinum (Celetná street, within reach of
  underground stations Mustek or Námestí
  republiky)
• library of the faculty (Katerinská street,
  foreign students dpt.)

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REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE
COURSE

• Latin terminology is a one term course with
  obligatory credit and exam in the end of the
  winter term.
• Two ways of obtaining a credit
• a) if all tests during a term are successful AND
  the attendance is satisfactory (two or less
  lessons missed) you will receive a credit
  without additional conditions in the credit
  week
• b) if any of previous conditions is not met you
  have to write a credit test during the credit
  week (three attempts are allowed)

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Exam conditions

• three attempts are allowed, the 3rd one must be
  with different examinator than previous two
• exam consists of two parts
• written test
• spoken examination.
• Further details about credits and exams can be
  found here http//udl.lf1.cuni.cz/
• Consultations
• During the therm or the examination period
  available on request.

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Structure of Latin-Greek Medical Terminology

• Grammatical structure
• nouns (substantivum, divided to 5 declensions)
• adjectives (adiectivum, two major groups, 3
  dec-lensions)
• prepositions (praepositiones)
• numerals (numeralia, cardinal and ordinal
  numerals)
• Greek grammar (3 declensions to limited extent)
• Lexical structure
• Latin vocabulary
• Greek vocabulary
• one-word composed terms

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Nouns

• Nouns are divided to declensions indicated in
  textbook using Roman numerals I. - V.
• Every declension consist of six grammatical cases
  in singular and plural. 5th and 3rd case are not
  used in Medical Terminology
• Names of cases
• 1. nominativus (nominative)
• 2. genitivus (genitive/possessive case)
• 4. accusativus (accusative/objective case)
• 6. ablativus (ablative)

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Adjectives, prepositions, numerals, verbs

• adjectives use the same system of cases (and
  suffixes) as Latin nouns limited to I. - III.
  declension
• prepositions consist of three groups and are
  indeclinable
• numerals two groups, partially indeclinable
• verbs only imperative is required