Medical Latin 1st week Orientation

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

Requirements Attendance: maximum 2 absences Word quizzes weekly(10) 2 Tests 1st Test Week 8, Friday 7 pm, 3 November 2nd Test Week 14 Friday 7 pm, 15 December Word quizzes weekly(10) 10 --> min. 8 words  successful quiz Total final score: min. 60 % 60-69 %  2 70-79 %  3 80-89 %  4 90-100 %  5 Requirements

Is this in English? „Muscles that extend and 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.

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 4: Greek roots – Word quiz 3 6 Chapter 5: Regions – Word quiz 4 7 Formation of adjectives – Word quiz 5 8 Revision, Mid-term Test (7 pm Friday, 3 November) 9 Chapter 6: Skeletal system I 10 Skeletal system II, Plural forms – Word quiz 6 11 Chapter 7: Joints – Word quiz 7 12 Complex adjectives – Word quiz 8 13 Chapter 8 Muscles Latin prefixes Latin and Greek prefixes related to numerals and quantities; Latin numerals – Word quiz 9 14 Revision 2 – Word quiz 10 – , End-term Test (7pm Fri, 15 December) 15 Evaluation

Latin in English context

In 1st 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

around 460 – approximately 370 BC 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 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 Bones can hypertrophy i.e. enlarge when they have to bear increased weight i.e. = id est = that is

= Note well, take special notice, it is important! 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, %

PhD= Philosophiae Doctor She is holding a PhD PhD= Philosophiae Doctor = Doctor of Philosophy

R.I.P.= Requiescat in pace 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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