Pharmaceutical Terminology (0+0+28)

Adatok

A Tantárgybejelentőben megadott hivatalos adatok az alábbi tanévre: 2024-2025

Tematika

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

Előadások

• 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

Gyakorlatok

Szemináriumok

• 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.

A tananyag elsajátításához szükséges segédanyagok

Kötelező irodalom

Saját oktatási anyag

University handbook available on the Departmental website.

Jegyzet

Ajánlott irodalom

University Script

Materials available on Neptun

A félév elfogadásának feltételei

For the successful completion of the course the students must achieve at least 60% on two written tests.

Félévközi ellenőrzések

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

Two written tests.

Távolmaradás pótlásának lehetőségei

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

Vizsgakérdések

- 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

Vizsgáztatók

Gyakorlatok, szemináriumok oktatói

• Krommer Zoltán
• Szalai-Szolcsányi Judit