Pharmaceutical Terminology

Adatok

A Tantárgybejelentőben megadott hivatalos adatok az alábbi tanévre: 2020-2021

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

Gyakorlatok

Szemináriumok

• 1. Introduction to pharmaceutical terminology. Taxonomic names of medicinal plants. Introduction to the Latin declension system.
• 2. Introduction to pharmaceutical terminology. Taxonomic names of medicinal plants. Introduction to the Latin declension system.
• 3. Drugs - Nomina drogarum. Latin morphology: Possessive structure (Genitive case). Latin terminology relating to parts of medicinal plants.
• 4. Drugs - Nomina drogarum. Latin morphology: Possessive structure (Genitive case). Latin terminology relating to parts of medicinal plants.
• 5. Terminology of Galenic preparations. Declension of Latin adjectives.
• 6. Terminology of Galenic preparations. Declension of Latin adjectives.
• 7. Routes of drug administration.
• 8. Routes of drug administration.
• 9. Latin terminology of drug preparations.
• 10. Latin terminology of drug preparations.
• 11. Taxonomic names of medicinal plants II. Repetition.
• 12. Taxonomic names of medicinal plants II. Repetition.
• 13. Test I.
• 14. Test I.
• 15. General Rules of Prescription Writing I - Magistral products. Units of measurement and their Latin abbreviations (Accusative case).
• 16. General Rules of Prescription Writing I- Magistral products. Units of measurement and their Latin abbreviations (Accusative case).
• 17. General Rules of Prescription Writing II - Factory products. Latin terminology of pharmaceutical packaging.
• 18. General Rules of Prescription Writing II - Factory products. Latin terminology of pharmaceutical packaging.
• 19. Common Drugs and Their Actions. Latin verbs in prescriptions.
• 20. Common Drugs and Their Actions. Latin verbs in prescriptions.
• 21. Reading and translating prescriptions from FONO. Latin pharmaceutical abbreviations.
• 22. Reading and translating prescriptions from FONO. Latin pharmaceutical abbreviations.
• 23. Therapeutic use of herbal medicine.
• 24. Therapeutic use of herbal medicine.
• 25. Summary and repetition. Exercises.
• 26. Summary and repetition. Exercises.
• 27. Test II.
• 28. Test II.

A tananyag elsajátításához szükséges segédanyagok

Kötelező irodalom

Saját oktatási anyag

Jegyzet

Ajánlott irodalom

University Script
Materials available on Neptun

A félév elfogadásának feltételei

Two midterm tests

Félévközi ellenőrzések

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

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