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Medical Language C2
words and abbreviations
Term | Definition |
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febrile | to have a fever |
afebrile | to NOT have a fever |
ausultation | to listen |
RR | respiratory rate |
H&P | history and physical |
WNL | within normal limits |
sig | instructions-(Latin for 'label') |
QHS | every night (at bedtime) |
CVL | central venous line |
CTA | clear to ausultation-(listen) |
ante- | before |
anti- | against |
brady- | slow |
contra- | against |
ecto- | outside |
endo- | inside |
hemi- | half |
angl/0 | blood vessel |
arthr/o | joint |
enter/o | small intestine |
hepat/o | liver |
myc/o | fungus |
phag/o | eat |
plas/o | formation |
scler/o | hard |
xen/o | foreign |
-ac | pertaining to |
-al | pertaining to |
-algia | pain |
-cele | hernia |
-centesis | puncture |
-desis | binding |
-dynia | pain |
-ectomy | removal |
-emia | blood condition |
-gram | written record |
-graph | instrument used to produce a record |
-graphy | writing procedure |
-ia | condition |
-iasis | presence of |
-iatrics | medical science |
-iatrist | specialist in medicine of |
-iatry | medical science |
-icle | small |
-ism | condition |
-ist | specialist |
-itis | inflammation |
-ium | tissue,structure |
-logist | specialist in the study of |
-logy | study of |
-lysis | loosen,break down |