Syllabus
BASICS of MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
1st Year of Study Winter Term
SEMINARS – 1st semester
1. Brief Survey of the History of Medical Terminology.
2. Introduction to Latin Grammar and Structure of Terms.
3. 1st A-Declension, Latin and Greek Nouns, 1st Declension Adjectives.
4. 2nd O-Declension: Latin Nouns – Masculines, Neuters.
5. 2nd O-Declension: Greek Nouns – Masculines, Neuters; 2nd Declension Adjectives.
6. 3rd Latin Consonant-Declension – Masculine, Feminine Nouns.
7. 3rd Latin Consonant-Declension – Neuter Nouns; Nouns of the 3rd Consonant-Declension
+ Adjectives of the 1st and the 2nd Declensions.
8. TEST I
9. 3rd Latin Vowel-Declension – Masculine, Feminine Nouns.
10. 3rd Latin Vowel-Declension – Neuter Nouns, Special Declination; Nouns of the 3rd
Vowel-Declension + Adjectives of the 1st and the 2nd Declensions.
11. 4th Declension – Masculine, Neuter Nouns; Nouns of the 4th Declension + Adjectives of
the 1st and the 2nd Declensions.
12. 5th Declension – Feminine Nouns; Nouns of the 5th Declension + Adjectives of the 1st and
the 2nd Declensions.
13. 3rd Declension – Greek Nouns. Consonant-Declension – Masculines, Feminines, Neuters.
14. 3rd Declension – Greek Nouns. Vowel-Declension. Terms formed by the suffixes -itis,
-oma, -osis.
15. TEST II
Bibliography:
BUJALKOVÁ, M., JUREČKOVÁ, A.: Terminologia Medica. Greco-Latin Medical
Terminology. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského 2013. 148 s. (skriptá)
ISBN 978-80-223-3394-8.
Syllabus
BASICS of MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
1st Year of Study Summer Term
SEMINARS – 2nd semester
1. 3rd Declension Adjectives – “One ending” Adjectives, “Two endings” Adjectives, “Three
endings” Adjectives.
2. 3rd Declension Adjectives – Declension; Greek Adjectives of 3rd Declension
3. Comparison of Adjectives – Regular, Irregular, Incomplete Comparison.
4. Comparison of Adjectives – Declension of Comparatives and Superlatives.
5. TEST III.
6. Numerals – Cardinal, Ordinal, Multiple Numerals. Declension of Numerals.
7. Medical Prescription – Verb. Decimal Point Metric Prefixes.
8. Medical Prescription – Grammatical Structure. Extratemporaneous MP, Trade-drug MP.
9. Prefixes – Prefixes Related to Direction, Place and Time; Prefixes Denoting Quality and
Negation.
10. Suffixes – Noun Suffixes, Adjective Suffixes.
11. TEST IV.
12. Compound Words – Most Common Roots: Nouns Denoting State/Process, Disease,
Branch of Medicine; Nouns Denoting Surgical or Diagnostic Procedure, Human Body.
13. Compound Words – Most Common Roots: Nouns Denoting Body Fluids, Secretions,
Substances. Adjectives/Numerals Denoting State, Quality, Quantity, Color.
14. Latin and Greek Equivalents Most Freguently Used in Medical Terms.
15. Repetition in Exercises.
Bibliography:
BUJALKOVÁ, M., JUREČKOVÁ, A.: Terminologia Medica. Greco-Latin Medical
Terminology. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského 2013. 148 s. (skriptá)
ISBN 978-80-223-3394-8.