Syllabus
Syllabus:
1) Brief introduction to the historical development of Graeco-latin medical terminology
2) Basic grammar terminology; pronunciation; medical term structure. Using a dictionary
3) Introduction to the Latin flexion (nouns and adjectives)
4) Lexical base, the most typical substantive- adjective phrases
5) Comparison of adjectives
6) Latin numerals
7) Verbal forms (participals, names of remedies). Nomina anatomica
8) Review. Morphological and lexical term analysis
9) Greek based vocabulary in clinical practice
10) Third Greek declension, names of diseases (ending –itis/ -osis / -oma)
11) Greek numerals
12) Latin and Greek prefixes a suffixes. Compounds. Word formation
13) Text analysis. Credit test
Annotation
The subject Medical Terminology is taught in the bachelor curriculum, in the Winter semester of the 1st year, and represents a supplementary subject which creates background for the health care specialists with university education. The Nutrition Therapy students gain basic orientation in the language of their particular field.
Classical Latin is modified to the needs of medical terminology and supplemented with the basic elements of Greek vocabulary as to meet the requirements of correct understanding terminology in the clinical subjects.