Sylabus
* Primary Topics:
1) Pronunciation.
2) History, current forms, and perspectives of Medical Terminology.
3) Simplified Latin nominal inflections and use of basic prepositions.
4) Word-building, creation of Greek medical composites including basic vocabulary of related lexicological building components.
5) Introduction to current medical prescriptions in the Czech Republic.
6) Use of abbreviations in medical context. Winter Term
1. General Overview, Notes on Pronunciation, Spelling, Reading.
2. Grammatical Case, Number, and Gender.
3. 1st Declension Nouns: Grammar and Vocabulary.
4. 2nd Declension Nouns: Grammar and Vocabulary.
5. 1st and 2nd Declension Adjectives: Grammar and Vocabulary.
6. Review Lesson, Testing.
7. 4th Declension Nouns: Grammar and Vocabulary.
8. 5th Declension Nouns: Grammar and Vocabulary.
9. 3rd Declension Imparisyllabics: Difference between Imparisyllabic and Parisyllabic group, Stem Change, Grammar and Vocabulary.
10. 3rd Declension Parisyllabics: Grammar and Vocabulary.
11. 3rd Declension Adjectives: Grammar and Vocabulary.
12. Clinical Terminology: Introduction, Stems, Endings.
13. Clinical Terminology: Prefixes, Review of Clinical Terminology.
14. Review Lesson, Testing.
15. Credit Test. Summer Term
1. Review Lesson, Dictionary Forms, Syntactical Relations, Nominal Grammar.
2. Prepositions, Syntax of Prepositions (Accusative and Ablative).
3. 1st and 2nd Declension Nouns with Prepositions.
4. 1st and 2nd Declension Adjectives with Prepositions, Adjectives Used as Nouns.
5. Review Lesson, Testing.
6. 4th and 5th Declension Nouns with Prepositions.
7. 3rd Declension Imparisyllabic Nouns with Prepositions, Stem Change.
8. 3rd Declension Parisyllabic Nouns with Prepositions, Stem Change.
9. Review of the 3rd Declension Nouns in Acc. and Abl.
10. 3rd Declension Adjectives with Prepositions.
11. Comparatives (and Superlatives): Grammar, Vocabulary, Exceptions.
12. Clinical Terminology, Latin Numerals, Greek Numerals as Parts of Compound Words.
13. Introduction to Verbs in Latin, Vocabulary of Remedies.
14. Greek Paradigms.
Anotace
Course provides an introduction to current medical terminology in Central Europe. The explanation is focused mostly on formal attributes of professional medical terminology in anatomical (Latinized) as well as clinical context.
It is expected that the content of professional medical communication (as opposite to the formal framework of the terminology) is provided by other major subjects like anatomy, physiology etc. Following local conventions, the attention is primarily given to Greek-Latin vocabulary as it is used in anatomical terms and clinical diagnoses.