MEDICAL LATIN 1 ST WEEK Orientation Teacher Email

MEDICAL LATIN 1 ST WEEK Orientation

Teacher: Email: Edu Répás László repasl@med. unideb. hu Center Room 312. Neptun registration!!! Website: Basics (2017) ilekt. med. unideb. hu GENERAL INFORMATION of Medical Terminology

Attendance: 2 maximum 2 absences Tests Word quizzes weekly(10) 1 st Test Week 7, Friday 26 October 10 --> min. 8 words successful quiz 2 nd Test Week 14 Friday 14 December Total final score: min. 60 % 60 -69 % 2 70 -79 % 3 80 -89 % 4 90 -100 % 5 REQUIREMENTS

Week Topics covered 1 Class introduction and Chapter 1 Introduction to medical terminology 2 Chapter 2: Anatomical positions, planes and directions 3 Chapter 3: Parts of the body – Word quiz 1 4 Grammar 1: Basic elements of Latin grammar – Word quiz 2 5 Chapter 5: Regions – Word quiz 3 6 Concord of genders Word quiz 4 7 Formation of adjectives, revision, Word quiz 5 – Mid-term Test 8 Chapter 6: Skeletal system I 9 Skeletal system II, Plural forms – Word quiz 6 10 Chapter 7: Joints – Word quiz 7 11 Complex adjectives – Word quiz 8 12 Chapter 8 Muscles Latin prefixes Latin and Greek prefixes related to numerals and quantities; Latin numerals 13 Chapter 9: Greek roots – Word quiz 9 14 Revision 2 Word quiz 10 – End-term Test

IS THIS IN ENGLISH? „Muscles that extend abduct or adduct hand at the carpal joint: extensor carpi radialis longus, extensor carpi radialis brevis and extensor carpi ulnaris” Essential Clinical Anatomy by K. L. Moore, A. M. R. Agur, A. F. Dalley p. 451.

Latin in English context

IN 1 ST CENTURY A. D. In the year of the Lord; in the years of the Christian calendar era

8 A. M. /P. M. a. m. = ”ante meridiem” = before noon, time from midnight to noon p. m. = ”post meridiem” = after noon, time from noon to midnight

HIPPOCRATES C. 460 – C. 370 BC c. = circa around 460 – approximately 370 BC

PLEASE SEND A CV TO THE ADDRESS BELOW CV = Curriculum Vitae Document on your past employment and education, „course of life”

cf Rules and Regulations Section 32/2 cf = confer Compare, used in references

Long bones have tubular structure e. g. tibia and fibula in the leg e. g. = exempli gratia for example

”The Human Embryo” by Brodsky, Rosenblum, et al. =et alii and others (co-authors, contributors)

Humerus, ulna, radius, carpals, etc. are bones of the upper limb etc. = et cetera and so on, „and others too”

Bones can hypertrophy i. e. enlarge when they have to bear increased weight i. e. = id est = that is

NB NB= Nota bene = Note well, take special notice, it is important!

Best wishes, Julie. PS If Tuesday is not OK, let me know. PS= Post scriptum = Written after something

staff rejected a 1. 8 per cent increase per cent= per centum = in or for every hundred, %

She is holding a Ph. D= Philosophiae Doctor = Doctor of Philosophy

R. I. P. (on graves) R. I. P. = Requiescat in pace = Rest in peace

Tooth Decay Rates in Fluoridated vs. Non. Fluoridated Communities vs. = versus = against, as opposed to

CITIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS Faster, higher, stronger

Mens sana in corpore sano (Carlton Football Club motto) A sound mind in a healthy body

E PLURIBUS UNUM Out of more, one

I think therefore I am (René Descartes)

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