Erzsébet Belák PhD

MEDICAL LATIN

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Semmelweis Publishers
 Erzsébet Belák PhD

MEDICAL LATIN
 Written by ERZSÉBET BELÁK PhD

Literary adviser: ZSUZSA EASTLAND

Copyright © Erzsébet Belák, 2005, 2010

Fifth, revised edition: 2005

ISBN 978 963 9879 99 7

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Director of Semmelweis Publishing Company
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Cover design: László Táncos
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CONTENTS
Introduction .............................................................................................. 5

PART I. .................................................................................................... 7

LECTIO PRIMA I ................................................................................... 8

LECTIO SECUNDA II .............................................................................. 11

LECTIO TERTIA III ................................................................................. 14

LECTIO QUARTA IV ............................................................................... 17

LECTIO QUINTA V ................................................................................. 21

LECTIO SEXTA VI .................................................................................. 24

LECTIO SEPTIMA VII ............................................................................. 28

LECTIO OCTAVA VIII .............................................................................. 32

LECTIO NONA IX .................................................................................. 37

LECTIO DECIMA X ................................................................................ 40

LECTIO UNDECIMA XI ........................................................................... 46

LECTIO DUODECIMA XII ........................................................................ 50

LECTIO TERTIA DECIMA XIII .................................................................... 54

LECTIO QUARTA DECIMA XIV ................................................................. 57

LECTIO QUINTA DECIMA XV .................................................................. 61

LECTIO SEXTA DECIMA XVI .................................................................... 65

TEST N° I ............................................................................................ 67

TEST N° II ........................................................................................... 69

TEST N° III .......................................................................................... 71

PART II. Chrestomathia .............................................................................. 75

(1) Nonnulli termini clinico-medicinales (Some Latin terms of clinical

medicine) ........................................................................................... 76

(2) Diagnoses pathologo-anatomicae (Pathoanatomical Diagnoses) ........... 94

(3) Medical Prescriptions ...................................................................... 98

PART III. A concise medical latin grammar .................................................... 113

PART IV. .................................................................................................. 149

List of GREEK elements, occuring in this book ......................................... 150

LATIN – ENGLISH DICTIONARY ............................................................... 152

Bibliography .............................................................................................. 171

INTRODUCTION
This Latin textbook is meant for students of medicine (including dentistry) and

pharmacy who have not learnt Latin before.

The textbook contains sixteen lessons, each of which consists of three parts:

a) a text of simple sentences relating to the art of healing,

b) Latin proverbs, ancient and modern,

c) exercises.

Further practice for self-study and feedback is provided in the tests after the sixteenth

lesson.

Additional chapters include a broad selection of technical terms from the fields of

anatomy, clinical medicine and pharmacy; a reference list of Greek elements, a concise

Latin Grammar and a Latin-English vocabulary.

The author trusts that this textbook will enable students to acquire the basic vocabulary

and structures of medical Latin so that they can then use them creatively in their future

profession.

Erzsébet Belák
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