Introduction

Requirements

History of Latin medical terminology

Structure of Latin medical terminology

Required introductory grammar

LATIN MEDICAL TERMINOLOGYMgr. Karel Černý

Institution:Ústav dějin lékařství a cizích jazyků 1. LF UK Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages

Address: Kateřinská 32120 00 Praha 2(entrance: street Katerinska, the same building as the

foreign student office dpt., via library)http://udl.lf1.cuni.cz/

karel.cerny@lf1.cuni.czphone: +420 224 964 108

Required textbook

Dana Svobodová, An Introduction to Greco-Latin Medical Terminology, Prague (Nakladatelství Karolinum) 2002.

Available at: booksellers Wimmer (Lipová street – in vicinity of General hospital) Karolinum (Celetná street, within reach of

underground stations “Můstek” or “Náměstí republiky”)

library of the faculty (Na bojišti street, 1st underground floor)

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESFULL COMPLETION OF THE COURSE

Latin terminology is a two terms course with obligatory credit in the end of both and an exam in the end of the summer term.

Two ways of obtaining a credit:

a) if all tests during a term are successful AND the attendance is satisfactory (two or less lessons missed): you will receive a credit without additional conditions in the “credit week”

b) if any of previous conditions is not met: you have to write a credit test during the credit week (three attempts are allowed)

Exam conditions: both credits are required three attempts are allowed, the 3rd one must be with

different examinator than previous two exam consists of two parts:

written test spoken examination.

Further details about credits and exams can be found here: http://udl.lf1.cuni.cz/

Consultations: During the therm or the examination period available on request.

HISTORY OF LATIN MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

Greek foundation of a rational scienceRoman empireHippokrates and Galen medieval erarenaissance and “scientific revolution”transition to modern erabirth of modern medical sciences in the end of the 19th century

future of medical terminology

Structure of Latin-Greek Medical Terminology

Grammatical structure: nouns (substantivum, divided to 5 declensions) adjectives (adiectivum, two major groups, 3 dec-

lensions) prepositions (praepositiones) verbs (only imperativus) numerals (numeralia, cardinal and ordinal numerals) Greek grammar (3 declensions to limited extent)

Lexical structure: Latin vocabulary Greek vocabulary one-word composed terms

NounsNouns are divided to declensions indicated in textbook using Roman numerals I. - V.

Every declension consist of six grammatical cases in singular and plural. 5th and 3rd case are not used in Medical Terminology

Names of cases:1. nominativus (nominative)2. genitivus (genitive/possessive case)4. accusativus (accusative/objective case)6. ablativus (ablative)

Adjectives, prepositions, numerals, verbs

adjectives use the same system of cases (and suffixes) as Latin nouns limited to I. - III. declension

prepositions consist of three groups and are indeclinable

numerals – two groups, partially indeclinableverbs – only imperative is required