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Latin for Clinical Practice

Class at Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen |
EVP05008

Syllabus

1. week    Latin verbs in medical terminolgy. Imperative, present subjuntive. Instructions, commands and prohibitions in medical terminology.

2. week    1st declension - Latin nouns, Greek nouns. Prepositions.

3. week    2nd declension - Latin nouns, Greek nouns.

4. week    Adjectives: 1st and 2nd declension. Ordinal numerals.

5. week    4th and 5th declensions.

6. week    3rd declension - masculine and feminine nouns. (Latin and Greek nouns.)

7. week    3rd declension - masculine and feminine nouns (Latin and Greek nouns.) - practice.

8. week    Continuous test.

9. week    3rd declension - neuter nouns.  (Latin and Greek nouns.)

10. week  3rd declension - adjectives. Latin participles.

11. week  Regular, irregular and incomplete comparison of adjectives.

12. week  Numerals - cardinal, ordinal, multiple, numeral adverbs. Prescriptions in Latin.

13. week  Credit test.

Annotation

Annotation:

The course is based on the second part of the script Latinská terminologie pro zubní lékařství (J. Plašilová – I. Kašparová, 2022). Prepositional cases used in clinical terminology and in prescription are added in the grammatical part, the basic medical vocabulary is expanded to include specific terms used in these fields – with a focus on a field of dentistry. Each lesson includes grammatical explanation, examples of authentic entries from the Hospital Information System, and grammar and translation exercises with key.