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9th Annual Meeting 
of the 
International Association of Medical Science Educators 

July 14-19, 2005
 

Abstract Category: General

Poster ID: G10

THE DIGITALIZATION AND INNOVATION OF OFFICIAL CZECH ANATOMICAL TERMINOLOGY

Kachlík David*, Čech Pavel, Báča Václav, Department of Anatomy, 3^rd Medical Faculty of Charles University, Ruská 87, Praha, 110 00, Czech Republic

The Czech Anatomical Terminology, although used partially from 16^th century and fully from 19^th one, has not yet been accepted officially by the Czech Anatomical Society. There are many special Czech anatomical books available and Czech anatomical terminology is the only one for forensic use allowed by law. Some attempts were performed in the 80´s, but they remain incomplete and unofficial. Considering the declaration and recommendation of FCAT in 1997 to innovate national terminologies we decided to create a digitalized form according to the Terminologia Anatomica issued by FCAT in 1998. It comprises the code, Latin and English term, proposed official Czech term, additional Czech equivalents with their source, eponyms and old Czech terms (if they exist). All Czech anatomical literature has been gathered. Missing terms are created de novo by translation from Latin or amended as loan-words from other Slavonic languages. The presentation shows four chosen chapters of various topics throughout the whole anatomy terminology (ductus cochlearis, epithalamus, caecum and part of general arthrology). The complete list is going to be presented to the Czech Anatomical Society and to professional medical societies to be reviewed and authorized in September. Next step of this project will comprise histological and embryological terminology and then multilingual Slavonic terminological dictionary.

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