Syllabus
Course Syllabus1) Brief acquaintance with the historical development of Latin and Greek regarding medical terminology; information about the course and the study requirements 2) Latin phonetics, distintiction of sounds, rules of pronounciation, revision 3)Basic grammatical terminology: cases, word classes, singular, plural, masculine, feminine and neuter, flection of nouns 4) 1st declension nouns: basic characteristic, paradigm, revision 5) 2nd declension nouns: basic characteristic, paradigm of masculine and neuter nouns, revision 6) 1st and 2nd declension adjectives: basic characteristic, paradigm, exceptions, revision 7) 3rd declension nouns: basic characteristic, division of nouns - parisyllabic and imparisyllabic nouns, paradigm, exceptions, revision 8) 4th and 5th declension nouns: basic characteristic, paradigm of both the declensions, revision 9) 3rd declension adjectives: basic characteristic, division of adjectives, paradigm, revision 10) Comparison of adjectives: paradigm; numerals declension; revision 11) Basic Greek medical vocabulary, revision 12) Word-formation: ways of forming a medical term, Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes, making compounds (derivation and composition): ability to analyse a compound into morphological and semantical elements; revision 13) Revision, credit test
Annotation
Annotation
In the field of Latin, the course focuses on understanding basic vocabulary and grammar. Content has been designed to meet the requirements and practical needs of students in Bachelor programmes of study and is closely connected with textbooks used in other subjects (e.g. Základy anatomie pro bakalářské studium, Univerzita Karlova, 3. LF, Praha 2001). Competence in Greek is limited to mastering basic vocabulary and orientation in word formation of Greek origins, mainly those used in pathology and clinical practice. Passive knowledge which enables students to understand most typical terms is required. After successful completion of the course, the student is expected to conceive of medical nomenclature as a logically functioning system based on precise relations and rules, not as a sum of isolated pieces of information which otherwise would require mechanical memorization of terms. The student´s ability to derive and improvise in the language is also expected to improve.