Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password


Make sure to remember your password. If you forget it there is no way for StudyStack to send you a reset link. You would need to create a new account.
Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Unit 2

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Question
Answer
SX   Symptoms; subjective evidence of diease or physical disturbance. (Also symtom tab in the software.)  
🗑
HX   History (Tab)  
🗑
PX   Physical Exam (same as PE)  
🗑
DX   Diagnosis  
🗑
MEDCIN   A medical nomencalutre  
🗑
DM   Diabetes Mellitus  
🗑
RX   take thou; prescribe; treatment; therapy  
🗑
Heent   Head, eyes, ears, nose, throat  
🗑
HIT   Health Information Technology also as Healthcare Information Technology  
🗑
GI/GU   Gastrointestinal/Genitorinary body system  
🗑
ROS   Reveiw Of Systems  
🗑
Sig   instructions for labeling a prescription (Latin Signa)  
🗑
CC   Cheif Complaint  
🗑
HPI   History of Present Illness which is a chronological discription of the development of the patient present illness from the first sign or symptom or from the previous encounter to the present  
🗑
PFSH   Past History, Family History, and Social History obtained from patient or other family member  
🗑
CBC   Complete Blood Count  
🗑
EMR   Electronic Medical Record  
🗑
MDM   Medical Decision Making (a key component)  
🗑
E & M   Evaluation and Management codes which area subset of CPT-4 codes used to bill for nearly every kind of patient encounter  
🗑
NEC   Not Elsewhere Classified (diagnosis codes)  
🗑
NOS   Not Otherwise Specified (diagnosis codes)  
🗑
OIG   Office of Inspector General (Department of Health and Human Services)  
🗑
primary diagnosis   first-listed diagnosis, used in the outpatient sertting to identify the reason for the encounter  
🗑
ENT   Ears, Nose, and Throat  
🗑
Dis-   apart  
🗑
-blast   immature cell, germ cell, embryonic cell  
🗑
-dynia   pain, ache  
🗑
-ar   pertaining to  
🗑
bradykinesia   Slowness of motion or movement  
🗑
neuromyopathic   Pertaining to a disease condition involving both nerves and muscles  
🗑
myofibroma   Tumor that contains muscle and fiber  
🗑
myoplast   Surical repair of a muscle  
🗑
tenodesis   Band of fibrous connective tissue serving for the attachment of muscles to bones; a giant cell tumor of tendon sheath is a benign, small, yellow, tumorlioke nodule  
🗑
massage   Kneading that applies pressure and friction to external body tissues  
🗑
con-   with together  
🗑
quadri-   four  
🗑
syn-   together, with  
🗑
dactyl/o   finger or toe  
🗑
-oid   resemble, like, similar  
🗑
-ceps   head  
🗑
-ure   process  
🗑
combination code   A code from one section of the precedural code book combined with a code from another section that is uesed top completely describe a procedure performed  
🗑
multuiple code   dual using more than one ICD code  
🗑
morphology code   study of a form or a shape  
🗑
neoplasm   tumroms new thing form  
🗑
in situ   within a site refers to tumor cells that remain and have not invaded tissue  
🗑
benign   not progressive  
🗑
malignant   pertaining to a bad wandering  
🗑
malignant hypertension   life treating high blood presssure  
🗑
   
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: BLONDIEHXAA
Popular Medical sets