DENTISTRY LATIN 1ST WEEK Orientation

GENERAL INFORMATION  Teacher: Répás László   Edu Center Room 312.  Neptun registration!!!  Basics of Medical Terminology (Dentistry)  Download: ilekt.med.unideb.hu  Print it out, bring it to every class

REQUIREMENTS  Attendance: maximum 2 absences  2 Tests  1st Test Week 8, Thursday 6 pm, 31st March  2nd Test Week 14 Thursday 6 pm, 12th May  Word quizzes weekly(10)  10 --> min. 8 words  1 point  Max 10 bonus points  Added to Test 1 and 2 in %-s  Min. 6 passed vocab quizzes  Total final score: min. 60 %  %  %  3  %  %  5

WeekTopics covered 1Class introduction and Chapter 1 Introduction to medical terminology 2Chapter 2: Anatomical positions, planes and directions 3Chapter 3: Parts of the body - Word quiz 1 4Basic elements of Latin grammar, Genitive forms - Word quiz 2 5Chapter 4: The mouth and the teeth - Word quiz 3 6Chapter 5: Greek roots in medical terminology - Word quiz 4 7Chapter 6: Regions; Formation of adjectives; - Word quiz 5 8 Revision 1 - Word quiz 5+1; Mid-term Test (Week 8, 6.00 pm Thursday 31th March) 9Chapter 7: The skeletal system 10Plural forms - Word quiz 6 11Connections of bones Word formation: Complex adjectives - Word quiz 7 12Chapter 7: The muscular system; Word quiz 8 13Latin and Greek prefixes; Latin numerals Word quiz 9 14Revision 2 – Word quiz 10, End-term Test (6.00 pm Thursday 12th April) 15Evaluation

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

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

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

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

e.g. = exempli gratia Cranial bones e.g. frontal and temporal bones for example

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

etc.= et cetera Teeth, gums, lips, tongue, etc. are part of the oral cavity and so on, „and others too”

i.e. = id est Humans are diphyodonts i.e. with two sets of teeth = that is

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

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

per cent= per centum staff rejected a 1.8 per cent increase = in or for every hundred, %

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

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

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

Faster, higher, stronger CITIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS

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

E PLURIBUS UNUM Out of more, one

ANNUIT COEPTIS NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM (US GREAT SEAL) Providence have favoured our undertakings New order of the ages

I think therefore I am (René Descartes)

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