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Latin language and medical terminology

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

Second

2024/2025

2 Semester

3

Achievement of an active command of normative grammar of the Latin language and the basic vocabulary of Greek and Latin origin. The ultimate goal is to master the principles of modern medical terminology as well as the conscious and correct use of medical terms in the professional activity of a doctor.

English proficiency. Basic skills of the linguistic analysis.

1) Anatomical and histological terminology; 2) Clinical terminology; 3) Pharmaceutical terminology. The subject of the discipline is the entire complex of Greek and Latin lexical items, which is the basis for the construction of anatomical, histological, clinical, pharmaceutical, chemical, and technical medical nomenclature. Students will be introduced to the rules of pronunciation of Latin and English medical terms, the ways of interpretation the meaning of the compound terms of Greco-Latin origin and get acquainted with the etymological analysis of the basic medical vocabulary. They gain skills of composing medical terms, while studying the algorithm of analysis, translation and formation of Latin and Greek nomenclature units and the Latin part of a prescription.

1. Illustrated terminology for medical Latin: Textbook / compiled by O.G. Mykhailova, H. B. Pyda, O. B. Levko. - K.: VOC "Kyiv University", 2018. - 23 p. 2. Latin language and medical terminology // pinax.com.ua. 3. Workbook on medical Latin terminology: study guide / O. G. Kiselyova, S. I. Lekhnitska, H. M. Shpinta. - Kyiv: Book-plus, 2016. -142 p. 4. The Latin Language and Medical Terminology Basics - L.Yu. Smolska, O.G. Pylypiv, P.A. Sodomora and others. ; under the editorship L.Yu. Smolsk. - K.: Medicine, 2010. - 400 p. 5. Kiseleva E.G., Nikolaenko O.I. Lexicon Terrninologiae medicinalis (English) / Kiseleva E.G., Nikolaenko O.I. - Kyiv: Book-plus, 2017. - 144 p.

Lectures, Seminar classes, Individual work

Semester assessment: 1. Quiz "Phonetics of the Latin language" - 5 points/3 points 2. Quiz"Lexics used in Latin anatomical and histological terminology" - 10 points / 5 points 3. Module test 1 "Grammar analysis and translation of Latin anatomical and histological terms" 30 points / 15 points 4. Quiz "Greco-Latin prefixes and suffixes in clinical terminology" - 20 points / 10 points 5. Module test 2 "Greco-Latin termelements in clinical and pharmaceutical terminology" - 25 points / 10 points 6. Oral answers - PH 1.1. - 3.3. - 10 points / 5 points Final evaluation: in the form of a score

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