The use of Latin in medical terminologies is a tradition that has formed Latin as an international language for understanding by Doctors in any country in the world. This language has the same status for many other specializations - not just medicine.
Attention! The dictionaries are sorted in alphabetical order and in the menu to your left you need to select the letter with which the word you are interested in begins.
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| a, ab (preposition with аbl.) | from, from |
| abdomen,inis n | stomach |
| abdominalis,e | abdominal |
| abdflcens, ntis | abducting |
| abductio,onisf | lead |
| abductor, oris m | abductor (muscle) |
| abruptus, a, um | jerky |
| abscessus,us m | abscess, abscess |
| absens,ntis | missing |
| abstineo, tinui, tentum, ere | hold |
| absum, afui, -, abesse | absent |
| absurdus, a, um | unpleasant; trans. ridiculous, meaningless |
| abundo,avi,atum are | to be rich, to be in abundance |
| abfisus, us m | abuse, excess |
| ac (union) | and besides |
| ac si | as if, as if |
| accedo, cessi, cessum, ere | approach |
| accessorius, a, um | additional |
| accipio, cepi, ceptum, ere | accept, receive, perceive |
| acer, acris, acre | spicy |
| aceticus, a,um | acetic acid |
| acetum,i n | vinegar |
| acheilia,aef | congenital absence of lips |
| acidosisf | increased acidity |
| acidum, i n | acid |
| Acidum acetylsalicylicum | acetylsalicylic acid |
| Acidum hydrosulfuricum | hydrosulfide acid |
| Acidum nitricum | Nitric acid |
| Acidum nitrosum | nitrous acid |
| acies,ei f | pungency; pupil, vigilance |
| acquiro, quisivi, quisitum, ere | acquire, receive |
| acusma, atis n | auditory hallucination, perceived as ringing, noise, etc. |
| acusticus,s,um | auditory |
| acutus, a, um | spicy |
| ad (preposition with asc.) | before, for, on |
| adamantinum,i n | adamantine, tooth enamel |
| adamantine, a, um | steel; hard as steel |
| adamas,ntis m | steel; diamond |
| addo, didi, ditlim, ere | add |
| adductor,oris m (musculus) | adductor |
| aden, adenis m | gland |
| adenoma, atis n | adenoma - glandular tumor (usually benign) |
| adenologia,aef | adenology - the study of glands |
| adenomalacia, aef | softening of the glands |
| adenopathia, ae f | disease of the lymph nodes |
| adetiectomia,ae f | removal of adenoid growths |
| adeo (adverb) | yes, to such an extent |
| adeps, ipis m | fat |
| adhaereo, haesi, haesum, ere | join; stick, be attached to something |
| adhaesivus, a, um | sticky |
| adhibeo,hibui,hibitum,ere | use, apply |
| adhuc(adverb) | still |
| adicio,ieci,iectum,ere | add |
| adiposus, a,um | obese, fatty, fatty |
| aditus,us m | login |
| adiuvans,ntis | auxiliary |
| adiuvo, iuvi, iutum, are | to help |
| admoveo, movi, motum, ere | bring closer; use; apply |
| adnumero,avi,atum,are | include, include |
| adolescens,ntis | young; young man; young girl |
| adolescentia, aef | youth |
| Adonis,idis m | adonis, medicinal plant |
| Adonisidum, i n | adonizide |
| adsum,affui, -, adesse | attend, help |
| adultus, a, um | adult, big |
| aduncus, a, um | crooked; hooked |
| aduro, ussi, ustum, ere | cauterize |
| adversus,a,um | facing someone (something) |
| adverto, adversi, adversum, ere | convert |
| advoco,avi,atum,are | invite |
| aeger, aegra, aegrum | sick |
| aegroto, -,-, are | to be sick, to suffer |
| aegrotus, a, um | sick |
| aequalis, e | equal, identical |
| aerophagia,aef | aerophagia - swallowing air |
| aethylicus, a, um | ethyl |
| aerophobia, aef | obsessive fear of air movements |
| aer, aeris m | air |
| aestas, atisf | summer |
| aesthesiologia, ae f | branches of anatomy and physiology that study the structure and functions of the sense organs |
| aesthesis, is f | feeling, feeling |
| aestivus,a,um | summer |
| aetas,atisf | age |
| aether, eris m | ether; air |
| aethereus,a,um | ethereal |
| aetiologia, aef | etiology is a branch of medicine that studies the causes and conditions for the occurrence of diseases |
| affectus m | affect - a strong emotional experience, a violent emotional reaction |
| afferens,ntis | bringing, bearing |
| afficio, feci, fectum, ere | act, set up |
| affigo, fixi, fixum, ere | attach |
| agalactia,aef | agalactia - lack of milk, complete absence of milk secretion in a woman in labor |
| ageusia,ae f | loss of taste |
| agito,avi,atum,are | shake up |
| agnosco,novi,nitum,ere | acknowledge, recognize |
| ago,egi,actum,ere | do something, act |
| agoraphobia, aef | fear of squares, open places |
| ala,alaef | wing |
| alaris,e | pterygoid |
| albumen,inis n | protein (eggs) |
| albus,a,um | white |
| alea, aef | lot |
| alienitas,atis f | alienation |
| alienus,a,um | alien, alien |
| alii, . . . alii | some, ... others |
| aliquamdiu (adverb) | some. time; pretty long |
| aliquando(adverb) | a lot, significantly |
| Alium, ii n | garlic |
| alius,alia,aliud | one of many, another |
| alkaloidum,i n | alkaloid |
| almus,a,um | nutritious, life-giving; beneficent, beneficial, gracious |
| alo, alui, altum (alitum), ere | nourish, feed, nurture |
| Aloef | aloe, cabur |
| alter, altera, alterum | one of the two, the other |
| Althaea,aef | marshmallow, marshmallow |
| altus,a,um | tall |
| Aluminum,ii n | aluminum |
| alveolus,i m | alveolus, cell |
| amabilis, e | cute, nice |
| amarus, a, um | bitter |
| ambo, ae, o | both |
| amica,aef | girlfriend |
| amicitia, aef | friendship |
| amicus, i m | Friend |
| amo, amavi, amatum, are | be in love |
| amor,oris m | Love |
| amplus, a, um | extensive, large |
| ampulla, a.e.f | ampoule, flask-shaped vessel |
| amputatio,onis f | amputation, taking away, cutting off |
| Amygdala,aef | almond (tree and fruit) |
| amylum, i n | starch |
| amens, amentis | crazy, crazy, reckless |
| am(adverb) | already |
| ana | according to, in equal parts, in equal proportions |
| anemia, ae f | anemia, anemia |
| anesthesia, ae f | partial or complete loss of one or more types of sensitivity |
| Anaesthesinum, i n | anestesin |
| analgetica n(remedia) pl | painkillers |
| Analginum,i n | analgin |
| analysis,is f | analysis |
| anamnesisf | anamnesis, history of illness |
| anasarca, aef | cutaneous dropsy, swelling of the subcutaneous tissue |
| anatomy, ae f | the science of the form and structure of individual organs, systems and the entire organism as a whole |
| anatomicus, a, um | anatomical |
| anatoxinum, i n | toxoid, antidote |
| angeion, i n | vessel |
| angiitis, tidis f | angiitis - inflammation of a blood vessel, artery or vein |
| angiocardiographia,ae f | angiocardiography - radiography of the cavities of the heart and blood vessels |
| angiography, ae f | angiography - radiography of arteries and veins after the introduction of a contrast agent into them |
| angiologia, aef | angiology is a branch of anatomy that studies the circulatory and lymphatic systems |
| angiomalacia, aef | softening of the vessel wall |
| angioparalysis, is f | vascular paralysis |
| angiopathia, ae f | angiopathy - a disease of the blood vessels |
| angiorrhexis,is f | angiorexis - rupture of a blood or lymphatic vessel |
| ango, anxi, -, ere | disturb, disturb |
| angustus,s,um | narrow |
| angulus,i m | corner |
| animal,ails n | animal |
| animans, ntis m, f | living creature |
| animum advertere | direct attention, thoughts |
| animo aequo | indifferently |
| animus,i m | spirit, rational principle, thought, soul, memory, consciousness; courage, character, nature |
| annulus,i m | ring, bezel, ringlet |
| annumero,avi,atum,are | include, include |
| annus,i m | year |
| anopheles, is f | malaria mosquito |
| antebrachium,ii n | forearm |
| anterior,ius | front |
| anthrax,acis m | anthrax |
| anthropologia,aef | the science of the origin and evolution of the physical organization of man and his races |
| anthropometria,ae f | one of the main research methods in anthropology, which consists of various measurements of the human body |
| antibioticum, i n | antibiotic |
| antidotum,i n | antidote; means, measure |
| antiquus, a, um | old, antique |
| antisepticus, s, um | antiseptic, disinfectant, kills germs |
| antitoxina, orum n (pl.) | antitoxins - substances (antibodies) produced by the body when exposed to toxins and protecting the body from poisoning by them |
| anularis, e | cricoid, ring-shaped |
| aorta, aef | aorta - the main artery of the systemic circulation |
| aperio,perui,pertum,ire | open |
| apertura, ae f | hole |
| apex,icis m | top, top |
| appareo, parui, paritum, ere | show up |
| appello, avi, atum, are | call |
| aptus, a, um | fitted, fitted, attached; suitable, suitable, appropriate |
| apud (preposition with acc.) | at, near |
| aqua, aef | water |
| aquila, ae f | eagle |
| aquosus, a, um | water |
| arachnoideus,a,um | arachnoid |
| arbor,oris m | tree |
| arcanum, in | secret |
| arcuatus, a, um | arched |
| arcus,us m | arc |
| ardor,oris m | fire; passion; inspiration |
| arduus, s, um | difficult, irresistible |
| area,ae f | field |
| argenteus,a,um | silver |
| argentum,i n | silver |
| armatus,a,um | armed |
| aromaticus, a,um | aromatic, fragrant |
| arsenas,atis m | arsenate |
| arsenicus, a, um | arsenic oxide |
| ars, artis f | art, science |
| arsenicosus, a, um | arsenic |
| Arsenkum,i n | arsenic |
| arsenis,itis m | arsenite |
| arteria,aef | artery |
| arteriosclerosis, isf | arteriosclerosis - calcification - arteries with thickening of the arterial wall |
| arterioscleroticus, a, um | arteriosclerotic |
| arthralgia, aef | joint pain |
| arthrologia, aef | arthrology - a branch of anatomy that studies the structure of joints |
| arthron,i n | joint |
| arthropathia, ae f | joint disease due to damage to the central nervous system |
| arthroplastica, aef | arthroplasty - plastic surgery to restore joint mobility |
| arthrosis, isf | arthrosis - chronic joint disease |
| articularis, e | articular |
| articulatio, onisf | joint |
| artifex,icis | skillful, skillfully made |
| artus, us m | joint |
| ascendens,ntis | ascending |
| ascites, ae f | abdominal dropsy |
| ascribe, scripsi, scriptum, ere | attribute |
| asper, era, eram | rough, uneven, lumpy |
| aspera,orum n | difficulties |
| aspicio, speci, spectum, ere | look, inspect |
| assequor, secutus sum, sequi | achieve |
| assidue | constantly, continuously |
| assiduus,a,um | constant, tireless, persistent |
| assuesco,suevi,suetum,ere | to accustom someone, to get used to something |
| assumo, sumpsi, sumtum, ere | take to oneself, accept; afford |
| asthenia, ae f | general weakness, exhaustion |
| asthma, atis n | asthma, shortness of breath |
| astrum, i n | star |
| at (conjunction) | and, but |
| atlas, ntis m | atlas, first cervical vertebra |
| atque (union) | and besides, and also |
| atrium, ii n | atrium |
| atrocier (adverb) | cruel, harsh |
| attineo,tinul,tentum,ere | touch, relate |
| attollo, -, -, ere | erect, construct |
| auctor,oris m | author, writer |
| auctoritas,atis f | influence, authority |
| audio, ivi, itum, ire | hear, listen |
| auditus,a,um | heard |
| auditus,us m | hearing |
| Augustus,i m(mensis) | August |
| aura, aef | aura is a special condition that precedes attacks of epilepsy, hysteria, migraine, etc. and has various manifestations: a feeling of numbness, wind blowing, ringing in the ears, etc. |
| auris,is f | yxo |
| aurum,i n | gold |
| auscultatio,onis f | listening |
| ausculto,avi,atum,are | listen |
| aut (union) | or |
| aut, ...aut | or or |
| autem (union) | a, and, but (placed in second place in a sentence) |
| autopsia, ae f | autopsy to determine the cause of death |
| auxilium, ii n | help |
| aversus,aum | facing the other way, turning one's back |
| avis, isf | bird |
| avunculus,i m | maternal uncle |
| axungia, ae f | fat, lard |
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Good afternoon Today we will get acquainted with the Latin language, find out why a doctor needs it in any country, and also try to learn several important Latin terms.
So, Latin. To be honest, I really enjoyed teaching him for a number of reasons:
- In classes on this subject, I felt as if I was touching some secret ancient knowledge. This is understandable, because we are talking about the language spoken by the great doctors of antiquity;
- you will learn in Latin. Therefore, a good knowledge of Latin will make memorizing anatomy relatively easy for you;
- Latin terms (especially medical ones) sound really, really cool;
- An appropriately used term in Latin during a conversation or report eloquently indicates your erudition. This may not be entirely true, but I always got that impression.
What is Latin used for? Doctors need it so that doctors who speak different languages can always understand each other. Of course, it is impossible to imagine anatomy without Latin. Biologists, chemists and pharmacists need it due to the use of a single terminology, which greatly facilitates the classification of medicines, animal species, etc.
Clinical terminology is also based on Latin. For example, if the name of a medicine ends in “in”, we can with a high degree of probability assume that we are talking about an antibiotic - amoxicillin, ciprofloxacin. If the name of the disease has the suffix “oma”, then they certainly talk about a tumor - hemengioMA, sarcomoma, lipoma. If the suffix “itis” is present, this is inflammation. For example, stomatitis, bronchitis, colitis.
Studying Latin for doctors has its own specifics. At the end of the course in this subject at the medical university, you are unlikely to be able to speak Latin with your friend on the phone. You also probably won't be able to easily say things like, "I may be a Marvel fan, but Zack Snyder's direction is so good that I ended up loving the Superman and Batman movies more than anyone else." All you need from this subject is to be able to understand and name it from memory anatomical terms, diagnoses of diseases, and also be able to write prescriptions in Latin.
From my own experience, I will say that Latin terms memorized in advance, before starting your studies at a medical university, provide several advantages:
- Firstly, you master the subject much faster and new topics are much easier for you.
- Secondly, you will quickly gain a good attitude from the teacher towards you. Your Latin teacher will definitely consider you a bright student if you answer the best in the first few years.
- Well, thirdly, having a good vocabulary, you will to some extent be able to compensate for your lag in grammar if this suddenly happens. This is exactly how it was with me - in terms of vocabulary, I was quite good, but grammar was very difficult. But I was included in the list of applicants for the coveted “automatic machine” precisely because of my vocabulary - at least that’s what the teacher told me.
When I created this collection of Latin words, I was guided, first of all, by the very beginning of the first semester of the first year. Therefore, if you have already been admitted, but wanted to know how to prepare for medical university in advance, this article is for you. After all, in such a situation it is best to start your preparation with Latin.
Actually, a Latin lesson
Let's try to remember a few simple words with pronunciation. Let me make a reservation right away that in our first selection I will not indicate the gender, variation of spelling of a word in the genitive case or in the plural, as is customary in dictionaries.
For our first lesson in Latin, I suggest remembering two simple rules that we will use right now:
- In Latin, the stress on the last syllable is NEVER placed;
- The sound of the letter "L" is always softened. The word "clavicula" (collarbone) will never sound like "clavicula". We will read it as a "clacker". Just like “scapula” (scapula) - it will sound correctly like this: “scapula”.
So, let's start learning Latin for doctors. Our minimum vocabulary for this lesson:
- Caput(kaput) - head;
- Cranium(cranium) - skull. Quite a common word. There is even the science of craniology, which studies the normal structure of the human skull;
- Basis cranii(base of the crane) - base of the skull;
- Fornix cranii(fornix krani) - cranial vault, that is, the lid of the skull;
- Maxilla(maxilla) - upper jaw. Let’s not forget our second rule and read it as “maxilla”;
- Mandibula(mandible) - lower jaw. The correct sound would be “mandible”;
I used Da Vinci's classic illustration to show you what I was talking about. With a red dotted line I marked the boundary between the cranial vault (fornix cranii) and its base (basis cranii). The rounded part at the top is the arch. Below is the basics.
I highlighted the upper jaw (maxilla) with blue, and the lower jaw (mandibula) with green.
- Cervix(cervix) - neck;
- Vertebra(vertebra) - vertebra;
- Columna vertebralis(columna vertebralis) - spinal column. It is this that consists of vertebrae;
- Corpus vertebrae(corpus vertebrae) - vertebral body. It is very easy to memorize Latin by associations - often, especially in sports, the human body is called the “corpus”. This is what boxers say: “body blow”;
- Arcus vertebrae(arcus vertebrae) - vertebral arch. It is also not without reason that an architectural figure in the form of an arc is called an “arch”;
This is what the spinal column looks like:
Next block of words:
- Thorax(thorax) - chest. The same term refers to the chest - an anatomical formation within which the chest cavity is located.
- Cavum thoracis(kavum thoracis) - chest cavity. It is limited by the sternum, ribs and vertebrae, that is, the chest.
- Sternum(sternum) - sternum. One of the coolest bones to learn. There are only a few elements to remember, the main one is...
- Corpus sterni(corpus sterni) - the body of the sternum. I think you already know the translation of this word, by analogy with the vertebral body;
- Costa(kosta) - rib;
- Caput costae(kaput koste) - rib head. Yes, at first I myself thought that the human head and the head of some anatomical formation have different names, but it turns out not
- Corpus costae(corpus coste) - the body of the rib. I think you already remember well what corpus is;
In this illustration you can see the chest from the front. The sternum is a long, vertical bone located in the front. The body of the sternum is even labeled here, only in English - body of sternum. By the way, Latin and English have a large number of similar words.
And the last block of Latin words for today.
- Сingulum membri superioris(cingulum membri superioris) - girdle of the upper limb. The word superior, like its opposite, inferior, will be encountered very often throughout anatomy.
- Superior(superior) - upper. A simple association. “Super” - above all others;
- Inferior(interior) - lower. It's also easy to remember. "Inferno" is another name for hell. “Infernal” - hellish, devilish. The stereotypical hell is always below;
- Scapula(scapula) is a word already analyzed today. As you remember, this is translated as “scapula”;
- Clavicula(clavicle) - collarbone. We looked into this too. By the way, for me in anatomy it was very surprising that the girdle of the upper limbs consists of only two bones - the scapula and the clavicle. I thought it was full of bones.
I highlighted the collarbone in red and the shoulder blade in green.
Here's a list. I would recommend that you learn it in parts. Write each term several times, say it out loud, and then tell a few learned terms with Russian translation to your household or a friend on the phone (I periodically told the cat).
This concludes our first (hopefully not the last) lesson on Latin for doctors. If you study a few expressions a week before you start studying, you will become a very skilled Latin student. Good luck to everyone, study and love science!
The only dead language still in active use. Usually languages fall out of use and become dead due to being replaced by other languages. This was the case with the Coptic language, which replaced , the dialects of the indigenous people of America replaced , and . In most cases, dead languages are not used at all and are preserved only in written monuments.
Latin remains active, although in limited use. Other examples of this use are Sanskrit, Avestan and some other languages. There are examples of reviving dead languages, for example, the Manx language.
Latin is the progenitor of the Italian branch of Indo-European languages. Currently, Latin is the official language of the Order of Malta and the Roman Catholic Church. Many words in European languages and international vocabulary come from Latin.
History of Latin
This language received its name from the Latin tribe from the Latium region, located in the middle of the Apennine Peninsula. According to legend, here are Romulus and Remus in the 8th century BC. e. founded the eternal city. Along with the expansion of the territories of the Roman state, the Latin language also spread. By the 5th century AD, when the Western Roman Empire fell, Latin was the international means of communication throughout the conquered lands of the Mediterranean. The influence was somewhat less in its colonies, in Sicily and the south of the Apennines.
Latin was perhaps the most developed European language of that period, with a rich lexical composition, covering abstract concepts, harmonious grammar, and laconic definitions.
The entire history of Latin is divided into several periods:
- Archaic – VI–IV centuries BC. e.
- Preclassical – III–II centuries BC. e. This is the period of development of the literary form of the language, embodied in the works of Terence, Plautus, and Cato the Elder.
- Golden Age - 1st century BC e. The rise of the Latin language under Emperor Augustus. Classical Latin has become complete, and this is evidenced by the works of Cicero, Horace, Ovid, and Virgil.
- Silver Age – 1st century AD e. Classical Latin was influenced by the languages of the colonies, which resulted in a slight decline in the standards of the literary language.
- Vulgar Latin developed during the Middle Ages. Many new words came into the language; the language of that period is called “kitchen Latin.”
- The era of humanism of the 14th–17th centuries once again brought Latin closer to the “gold standard”. But the gap between classical Latin and its vulgar version was increasingly widening. In Italy of that period, society experienced many evolutionary upheavals and this strengthened the position of the Latin language. The Renaissance elevated Latin to a cult, the language was glorified and studied, treatises were written about it and sung in literary works. At the same time, the simplification of Latin and the translation of books written in this language into Italian are clearly visible.
Latin still remained the language of science, but Galileo Galilei, by his own example, forced scientists to switch to the vernacular. By the 18th century, the use of Latin had narrowed to the realms of science and diplomacy.
The French Revolution was the impetus for the removal of Latin from universities, and now teaching was carried out in new languages. In the 19th century, Latin almost completely fell out of use, remaining a tool for scientific research by classical philologists and physicians. The next century ousted Latin from the Catholic Church after allowing services to be conducted in national languages.
In the modern world, Latin is used by doctors, biologists, and philologists. Most scientific terms came to us from Latin, and it has turned into an international scientific language.
- All modern Romance languages were formed from spoken Latin. Thus, learning Latin allows you to understand several European languages.
- The word "coin" in Latin means "counselor". This was the name of the Roman goddess Juno, near whose temple there were workshops that minted money. Advisor Juno gave the name to metallic money, and in English to money in general - money.
- Latin words always have the same meaning, which makes their use very convenient for scientific terminology.
- The pronunciation of classical Latin and the modern language are completely different, but since the language is used mainly in writing, this does not matter.
- Latin is the common ancestor of all Romance languages. At the same time, these languages have significant differences, which is explained by different times of penetration of the language into a particular territory. Over time, Latin changed, and local languages, in interaction with Latin, created new forms.
- Traces of Latin in British place names can be seen in the names of cities containing -chester or -castle, which means a fortification or military camp (Manchester, Lancaster, Newcastle, Lincoln, etc.).
- The increased penetration of Latin into European languages began during the time of Peter I. Although in the Old Russian language there were already borrowings directly from Latin, go through: bathhouse, chamber, mint, cherry.
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