Pharmaceutical Terminology (0+0+28)

Daten

Offizielle Daten in der Fachveröffentlichung für das folgende akademische Jahr: 2022-2023

Thematik

This course will enable students to acquire the basic vocabulary of pharmaceutical Latin so that they can use it creatively in their future profession. Students will become acquainted with the
taxonomic names of medicinal plants
- elements and formulae of prescribing
- main categories of common medicines in Latin
- routes of drug administration (absorption, inhalation, intramuscular..)
- basic Latin terminology alluding to drug preparations (liquid, semisolid, solid)
- most frequently used Latin abbreviations in prescriptions
- basics of Latin morphology
- forms of Galenic preparations
- Latin terms of pharmaceutical packaging

Vorlesungen

• 1. Introduction to pharmaceutical terminology. Taxonomic names of medicinal plants. Introduction to the Latin declension system. - Krommer Zoltán
• 2. Drugs - Nomina drogarum. Latin morphology: Possessive structure (Genitive case). Latin terminology relating to parts of medicinal plants. - Krommer Zoltán
• 3. Terminology of Galenic preparations. Declension of Latin adjectives. - Krommer Zoltán
• 4. Routes of drug administration. - Krommer Zoltán
• 5. Latin terminology of drug preparations. - Krommer Zoltán
• 6. Taxonomic names of medicinal plants II. - Krommer Zoltán
• 7. Repetition and review. - Krommer Zoltán
• 8. General Rules of Prescription Writing I - Magistral products. - Krommer Zoltán
• 9. Units of measurement and their Latin abbreviations (Accusative case). - Krommer Zoltán
• 10. General Rules of Prescription Writing II - Factory products. Latin terminology of pharmaceutical packaging. - Krommer Zoltán
• 11. Common Drugs and Their Actions. Latin verbs in prescriptions. - Krommer Zoltán
• 12. Latin pharmaceutical abbreviations. - Krommer Zoltán
• 13. Therapeutic use of herbal medicine. - Krommer Zoltán
• 14. Summary and review. - Krommer Zoltán

Praktika

Seminare

• 1. Introduction to pharmaceutical terminology. Introduction to the Latin declension system.
• 2. Drugs - Nomina drogarum. Latin morphology: Possessive structure (Genitive case). Latin terminology relating to parts of medicinal plants.
• 3. Terminology of Galenic preparations. Declension of Latin adjectives.
• 4. Routes of drug administration.
• 5. Latin terminology of drug preparations.
• 6. Taxonomic names of medicinal plants.
• 7. Test I.
• 8. General Rules of Prescription Writing I- Magistral products. Units of measurement and their Latin abbreviations (Accusative case).
• 9. General Rules of Prescription Writing II - Factory products. Latin terminology of pharmaceutical packaging.
• 10. Common Drugs and Their Actions. Latin verbs in prescriptions.
• 11. Reading and translating prescriptions from FONO.
• 12. Examples of herbal medicine.
• 13. Practicing for the second test.
• 14. Test II.

Materialien zum Aneignen des Lehrstoffes

Obligatorische Literatur

Vom Institut veröffentlichter Lehrstoff

University handbook available on the Departmental website.

Skript

Empfohlene Literatur

University Script
Materials available on Neptun

Voraussetzung zum Absolvieren des Semesters

Maximum of 15 % absence allowed

Semesteranforderungen

Conditions for acceptance of the semester: maximum of 15 % absence allowed.
Two written tests.

Möglichkeiten zur Nachholung der Fehlzeiten

Making up for missed class: to be discussed with the course instructor

Prüfungsfragen

- taxonomic names of medicinal plants
- elements and formulae of prescribing
- main categories of common medicines in Latin
- routes of drug administration (absorption, inhalation, intramuscular..)
- basic Latin terminology alluding to drug preparations (liquid, semisolid, solid)
- most frequently used Latin abbreviations in prescriptions
- basics of Latin morphology
- forms of Galenic preparations
- Latin terms of pharmaceutical packaging

Prüfer

Praktika, Seminarleiter/innen

• Krommer Zoltán
• Szalai-Szolcsányi Judit