VLLT0121 Basic Medical Terminology - practice

Faculty of Medicine
autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Tomáš Jeniš (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Klára Modlíková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Kateřina Pořízková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Andrea Salayová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Tereza Ševčíková (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Libor Švanda, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Veronika Dvořáčková, Ph.D. (assistant)
Mgr. Natália Gachallová, Ph.D. (assistant)
PhDr. Jana Vyorálková (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Kateřina Pořízková, Ph.D.
Language Centre, Faculty of Medicine Division – Faculty Branches of University Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Mgr. Kateřina Pořízková, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Language Centre, Faculty of Medicine Division – Language Centre
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of Latin will facilitate the study of the subject and can be regarded as an useful component of the educational attainment of students when entering the faculty, though it is not essentially required.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Greek-Latin medical terminology is one of the relevant means for acquisition of the target medical knowledge. The tuition is of both theoretic and practical character, conceived as a preparatory course sui generis, introducing the students into the study of medicine by means of its language. The content of tuition is, as well as the knowledge and competences postulated in the examination, exclusively determined by the needs of the discipline and medical practice. First of all, the basic knowledge of Latin and/or Greek enables students to quickly and purposefully master the meaning of technical terms, their grammatical form, and word-forming structure. It provides systematic instruction how to independently solve the common terminological problems. Simultaneously it presents a general overview of the wider historical and linguistic fundamentals of medical terminology as well as its general theoretical context.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students should be able to:
use Latin and Greek-Latin medical terminology and expressions correctly and understand them;
recognize and explain grammatical devices and rules relevant for acquisition of Greek-Latin medical terminology;
explain syntactic structure of complex terms;
recognize the semantic composition of selected anatomical and clinical one-word terms;
form compound words applying the most used word-formation principles;
translate selected expressions from anatomy and pre-clinical and clinical fields of study.
Syllabus
  • 1st week: Introduction to the study of the subject: learning objectives, methodological nad organisational instructions, study literature. Characteristics of the graphical and acoustic form of Latin. Selected Greek sounds, transcription into Latin. Pronunciation exercises. Basic nominal categories and their specific features in medical terminology. Latin and Greek nouns of 1st declension (a-stems), adjectives of 1st declension.
  • 2nd week: Syntactic structure of multi-word medical terms, basic types of domination relations, attributive adjectives and appositional adjuncts, word order. Term collocation exercises with a focus on nouns and adjectives of 1st declension. Latin and Greek nouns of 2nd declension (o-stems), adjectives of 1st and 2nd declension.
  • 3rd week: The mechanism of application of attributive adjectives and appositional adjuncts. Term collocation exercises with a focus on nouns and adjectives of 2nd declension. Latin nouns of 3rd declension (consonant stems and i-stems).
  • 4th week: Latin nouns of 3rd declension. Term collocation exercises with a focus on nouns of 3rd declension. Prepositional phrases frequently used in medical terms.
  • 5th week: Complex exercises on 1th, 2nd and 3rd declension. Greek nouns of 3rd declension (consonant stems and i-stems). Word-forming characteristics of one-word terms, overview of basic models (terms denoting inflammatory, non-inflammatory and tumour disease).
  • 6th week: Practical exercises with a focus on Greek nouns of 3rd declension. Overall revision and preparation for the progress test.
  • 7th week: Progress test (lesson 1-4 of the textbook). Adjectives of 3rd declension (three-termination, two-termination, one-termination types).
  • 8th week: Feedback to the progress test results. Practical exercises with a focus on adjectives of 3rd declension. Word formation: basic rules for derivation of adjectives of 3rd declension. Similarities and differences in declining 3rd declension nouns and adjectives.
  • 9th week: Exercising the 1st and 2nd, 3rd declension adjectives. Introduction to 4th declension (u-stems) and 5th declension (e-stems). Prepositional phrases overview.
  • 10th week: Practical exercises with a focus on nouns of 4th and 5th declension. Regular comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and their declension.
  • 11th week: Exercising the regular comparative and superlative forms of adjectives. Irregular, defective and periphrastic forms of comparatives and superlatives. Differences in translation of comparatives an superlatives in medical terms.
  • 12th week: Exercising the irregular, defective and periphrastic forms of comparatives and superlatives.
  • 13th week: Final revision: the declension system of nouns and adjectives, prepositional phrases. Final test (lesson 1-7 of the textbook).
Literature
    recommended literature
  • KÁBRT, Jan and Jan KÁBRT JR. Lexicon medicum. Druhé, dopl. a přeprac. vyd. Praha: Galén, 2004, 1136 pp. ISBN 80-7262-235-8. info
  • VOKURKA, Martin and Jan HUGO. Velký lékařský slovník. 10. aktualizované vydání. Praha: Maxdorf, 2015, xv, 1113. ISBN 9788073454562. info
Bookmarks
https://is.muni.cz/ln/tag/LF:VLLT0121!
Teaching methods
  • Lectures, translation and grammar exercises, drills.
  • Links to the parallel anatomy classes.
  • Switching from frontal instruction to group work and self-study. Group discussion.
  • Homework and self-preparation for the class work is required.
  • Class test in the middle of the semester.
    • Assessment methods
    Requirements for gaining the credit: regular class attendance, active participation in class, preparation for classes, completing 7 ROPOT applications in IS MUNI and passing a progress test and a credit test. The basic limit for passing all tests is 75%. Passing the progress test, which is obligatory for all students, reduces the basic limit in the credit test by 5%. Only one unexcused absence will be tolerated; further absences must be properly excused (i.e. via the Study Department of the Faculty of Medicine).
    Language of instruction
    Czech
    Follow-Up Courses
    Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
    The course is taught annually.
    The course is taught: every week.
    Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 30.
    Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
    Teacher's information
    Updated information on the course, office hours, etc. is available in IS MU.

    Contact person: secretary of the Language Centre (UKB, Kamenice 5, Pavilion A15), phone: 549498170; office hours: Monday 10.00-12.00, Wednesday 10.00-12.00, Friday 9.00-11.00. Individual lecturers can also be contacted via e-mail.

    The course is also listed under the following terms autumn 2020, autumn 2021, autumn 2022, autumn 2023.
    • Enrolment Statistics (autumn 2024, recent)
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