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Chapter 1
Medical terminology chapter 1
Term | Definition |
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-iatric | pertaining to medicine, a physician, or healer |
-iatry | treatment |
-logy | study |
-poiesis | formation |
-statis | stop or stand |
melan/o | black |
py/o | pus |
angi/o | vessel |
acr/o | extremity or topmost |
cutane/o | skin |
lapar/o | abdomen |
nephr/o | kidney |
pneum/o | air or lung |
crin/o | to secrete |
necr/o | death |
orth/o | straight, normal, correct |
phas/o | speech |
scler/o | hard |
sten/o | narrow |
A&W | alive and well |
CC | chief complaint |
c/o | complains of |
CP | chest pain |
PI | present illness |
IMP | impression |
L&W | living and well |
NAD | no acute distress |
NKA | no known allergies |
NKDA | no known drug allergies |
O | objective information |
PE | Physical examination |
PH | past history |
cerebral arteriosclerosis | hardening of the arteries of the brain |
cerebral aneurysm | dilation of a blood vessel in the brain (aneurysm = dilation or widening) |
cerebral thrombosis | presence of a stationary clot in a blood vessel of the brain |