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Lecturer(s)
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Pokorná Barbara, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Syntactic structure of medical terms; declension I-V, substantives, adjectives; Latin and Greek terminology; prepositions, numerals; system of verbs; Latin and Greek prefixes and suffixes; Latin composed words; Greek composed words, pharmaceutical terminology.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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Students will master Latin medical terminology used in professional practice; they will acquire the basics of Latin morphology; they will learn basic word building principles; and they will be able to derive and understand composed expressions.
Students will be able to understand Latin terminology used in their professional practice; knowledge of Latin terminology will become basis for terminology used in other languages.
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Prerequisites
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No special prerequisities are required.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam
Seminar attendance; successful completion of periodical and final tests (70%).
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Recommended literature
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Bujalková, Jurečková. (1993). Introduction to Latin medical terminology. Bratislava.
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Svobodová D. (2011). An Introduction to Graeco-Latin Medical Terminology. Praha.
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