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Medical Terms
Modules 1-3
Question | Answe |
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Patient’s lab results would fall under which category of SOAP? | Objective |
Patient’s medical history is an example of what under SOAP? | S for subjective |
What are the 4 general parts of medical notes? | Subjective, objective, assessment, and plan. |
What is the term for when there is no fever present? | Afebrile |
What does auscultation mean? | To listen |
When symptoms are treated but not the cause is referred to as______? | Pallatative |
What is differential diagnosis? | A list of conditions the patient may have based on symptoms exhibited and results from the exams. |
The term for when there is no known specific cause is _____. | Idiopathic |
What are the 3 body planes? | Sagittal, coronal, and transverse |
What is the abbreviation for “No Known Drug Allergies”? | NKDA |
Adip/o | Fat |
All/o | |
Ankly/o | stiff,bent |
Arthr | joint |
Blepahr/o | Eyelid |
Cardi/o | heart |
Chondr | cartilage |
Conjunctiv/o | Conjunctiva |
Cost/o | rib |
Crani/o | Head,skull |
Cutane/o | skin |
Cycl/o | |
Cyst | |
Dacry/o | Tear |
Dactyl | finger |
Derm/o | skin |
Dur/o | dura(tough outer membrane surrounding the brain and spinal cord) |
Enter/o | small intestine |
Erythr/o | red |
Fasci/o | fascia(fibrous connective tissue binding muscles together) |
Femor/o | femur |
Gangli | |
Gastr/o | stomach |
Graph | |
Hem/o | Blood |
Hemat/o | blood |
Hepat/o | liver |
Heter/o | |
Hom/o | |
Irid | |
Kerat/o | horny |
Lacrim/o | |
Leuk/o | white |
Lip/o | fat |
Lob | lobe |
Lumb/o | loin,lower back |
Mening | meninges(membrane surrounding the brain and spinal cord) |
My/o | muscle |
Myc/o | fungus |
Myel | spinal cord, bone marrow |
Myring/o | |
Neur/o | nerve |
Onych/o | nail |
Ophthalam | |
Oste/o | bone |
Ot/o | ear |
Pachy | thick |
Path | suffering/disease |
Phren | |
Pil/o | Hair |
Presby/o | |
Retin | |
Scler/o | hard |
Spondyl/o | Vertebra |
Steat/o | fat |
Tars/o | ankle |
Trich/o | hair |
Troph/o | nourishment/development |
Ungu/o | nail |
Xanth | yellow |
Xen/o | foreign |
Xer/o | Dry |
A- | not |
Ab- | Away |
Ad-,Af- | toward |
Anti- | against |
Brady- | slow |
De- | down,away from |
Dia- | through |
Dys- | bad |
Exo- | outside |
Extra- | outside |
Hyper- | over |
Hypo- | under |
Par- | around,beside |
Peri- | around |
Poly- | many |
Pre- | before |
Pro- | before, on behalf of |
Sym- | with,together |
Syn- | with,together |
Tachy- | fast |
-algia | pain |
-asthenia | weakness |
-centesis | puncture |
-clasia | breaking |
-clasis | breaking |
-desis | binding,fixation |
-dynia | pain |
—ectomy | removal |
-emia | Blood condition |
py/o | pus |
plas/o | formation |
-cele | hernia |
-malacia | abnormal softening |
-graph | instrument used to produce a record |
-gram | written record |
-graphy | writing procedure |
-meter | instrument used to measure |
-scope | instrument used to llok |
-plasty | reconstruction |
-tomy | incision |
-stomy | creation of an opening |
-rrhaphy | suture |