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Basic Medical Terminology

Class at First Faculty of Medicine |
B81132

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the subject, pronunciation.

2. Basic linguistic concepts (grammatical case, number and gender; nominal vs. adjectival attribute)

3. 1st declension nouns

4. 2nd declension nouns

5. 1st and 2nd declension adjectives

6. Review lesson 1

7. 4th and 5th declension nouns

8. 3rd declension imparisyllabic nouns

9. 3rd declension parisyllabic nouns

10. 3rd declension adjectives

11. Greek paradigms (colon, diabetes, systole)

12. Clinical terminology I (stems)

13. Clinical terminology II (prefixes and suffixes)

14. Review lesson 2

15. Credit test.

Annotation

The subject deals with morphology of Latin and Greek nouns, adjectives, Greek stems, prefixes and suffixes on a level necessary to understand professional medical language used in the Czech medical context.