Latin Based Medical Terminology II

Latin Based Medical Terminology II

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Course description:

The aim of the course is to evolve a basic language skill for general usage of scientific vocabulary in order to learn health sciences and work in the health-care system. Moreover, the students may acquire the basic medical terminology in connection with the Latin and the Greek languages. By completing the course, the students will study the basic concepts of Latin linguistics, as well as study different groups of medical terms and text types (medical reports, prescriptions, basic concepts of anatomy and pathophysiology, etc.). Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to translate and compose medical Latin texts and technical terms.

Literature:

Mandatory lecture note: Brandl Gergely, Illés Imre Áron, Marancsik Márta, Vágvölgyi Edit: Latin Based Medical Terminology, Szeged, 2021.

Recommended literature, handbooks and other course books: Erzsébet, Belák: Medical Latin, Budapest, 2005.; Répási, László: Basics of Medical Terminology I. Latin and Greek Origins. Debrecen, 2013; Donáth, Tibor: Négynyelvű anatómiai szótár. Budapest, 2005.; Stedman’s Medical Dictionary 28th Edition, Baltimore, 2006. Supplementary readings: Other course materials can be found on the official digital platform of the course [www. coospace.etr.u-szeged.hu].

All materials which is uploaded to the site or been circulated during the class is mandatory.

Course content:

Week 1 General course description. Grammar: Repetition. Usage of the I-II and III. declension adjectives. Practice of the rule of agreement. Clinical terminology: Basic features of the Greek elements in Medical Latin. Coursebook: 81-82, 138-139. pp.

Week 2: Grammar: Repetition. Constructing complex phrases with adjective and possessive phrases. Translation of basic diagnoses. Anatomical terminology: the digestive system. Clinical terminology: Greek elements connecting to the digestive system. Coursebook: 81-82, 140-142. pp.

Week 3: Grammar:General features of the accusative case. Usage of prepositions with accusative. Usage of the neutral rule of the Latin nouns. Anatomical terminology: the urinary system. Clinical terminology. Greek elements connecting to the urinary system. Coursebook: 83-89. pp.

Week 4: Grammar: Constructing complex phrases with prepositions, translating medical reports with prepositions with accusative. Clinical terminology: Greek and Latin elements about general clinical terms. Coursebook: 83-89 pp.

Week 5: Grammar: General features of the ablative case. Usage of prepositions with ablative. Different roots of the third declension, the appearance of the “i” root. Construction and translation of phrases combining ablatives and accusative case prepositions. Clinical terminology: Practice of Greek and Latin elements. Coursebook: 90-96. pp.

Week 6. Revision and practice. Completion and discussion of a sample test. Coursebook: 97-99 pp.

Week 7: 1^st MTO

Week 8: Grammar: General features of the Latin numerals. Practice of phrases with the usage of Latin ordinals and cardinals. Translation and construction of adjective phrases with the usage of the agreement rule in the singular. Anatomical terminology: the reproductive system. Clinical terminology: Greek elements connecting to the reproductive system. Coursebook: 100-105. pp.

Week 9: Grammar: Basic information about the prescriptions. Construction of basic prescriptions and terms of basic materials. Anatomical terminology: the endocrine system. Coursebook: 100-105 pp.

Week 10: Grammar:Construction and translation of complex prescriptions. Typical abbreviations, pharmaceutical phrases, and clinical terms of prescriptions. Translation of different short prescriptions. Coursebook: 106-113 pp.

Week 11: Grammar:Construction of complex prescriptions. Basic information about medical reports. Translation of medical reports and improvement of Latin reading skills. Coursebook: 113-118, 119-127. pp.

Week 12: Grammar:Translational practices (diagnoses, processes, diseases, and reports). Coursebook: 128-137 pp.

Week 13: Exercise and summary. Overview of the trial test for the final. Practice of the grammatical basics. Practice of the Greek and Latin elements of medical Latin. Coursebook: 190-200 pp.

Week 14: Final written exam.