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SSCT Medical Term.
SSCT Medical Terminology Web3 Chapters 1 & 2 & Abbreviations
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a.c. | before meals |
| ADL | activities of daily living |
| b.i.d. | twice daily |
| C /w a comma under it | with |
| CCU | Coronary Care Unit |
| DOA | Dead on Arrival |
| DOB | Date of Birth |
| DRG | diagnosis-related group |
| Dx | diagnosis |
| ECF | Extended Care Facility |
| ER | Emergency Room |
| FH | family history |
| h/o | history of |
| HPI | History of present illness |
| h.s. | at bedtime |
| hx | history |
| o.d. | one a day |
| OR | operating room |
| p.o. | by mouth |
| P.H. | past history |
| p/o; postop | postoperative |
| preop | preoperative |
| p.r.n. | as required |
| PTA | Prior to admission |
| q | each, every |
| qam | every morning |
| qd | everyday |
| qhs | each bedtime |
| qid | four times daily |
| qod | every other day |
| r/o | rule out |
| Rx | Prescription, Treatment, Therapy |
| s w/a line over it | without |
| stat | immediately |
| tid | three times daily |
| TPR | Temperature, Pulse, Respiration |
| Tx | Traction Treatment |
| vs | vital signs |
| y/o | year old |
| a- | no, not without |
| abdomin/o | abdomen |
| -ac | pertaining to |
| aden/o | gland |
| adip/o | fat |
| -al | pertaining to |
| -algia | pain |
| an- | no, not, without |
| ana- | up |
| anter/o | front |
| athr/o | joint |
| aut- | self, own |
| auto- | self, own |
| bi/o | life |
| bol/o | to cast |
| carcin/o | cancerous, cancer |
| cardi/o | heart |
| cata- | down |
| cephal/o | head |
| cerbr/o | cerebrum (largest part of the brain) |
| cervic/o | neck (of the body or the uterus) |
| chondr/o | cartilage (type of tissue) |
| chrom/o | color |
| cis/o | to cut |
| coccyg/o | coccyx (tailbone) |
| crani/o | skull |
| crin/o | to secrete (to form and give off) |
| cyst/o | urinary bladder; a sac or cyst (sac containing fluid) |
| cyt/o | cell |
| -cyte | cell |
| derm/o | skin |
| dermat/o | skin |
| dia- | through, complete |
| dist/o | far, distant |
| dors/o | back (of body) |
| a- | no, not without |
| abdomin/o | abdomen |
| -ac | pertaining to |
| aden/o | gland |
| adip/o | fat |
| -al | pertaining to |
| -algia | pain |
| an- | no, not, without |
| ana- | up |
| anter/o | front |
| athr/o | joint |
| aut- | self, own |
| auto- | self, own |
| bi/o | life |
| bol/o | to cast |
| carcin/o | cancerous, cancer |
| cardi/o | heart |
| cata- | down |
| cephal/o | head |
| cerbr/o | cerebrum (largest part of the brain) |
| cervic/o | neck (of the body or the uterus) |
| chondr/o | cartilage (type of tissue) |
| chrom/o | color |
| cis/o | to cut |
| coccyg/o | coccyx (tailbone) |
| crani/o | skull |
| crin/o | to secrete (to form and give off) |
| cyst/o | urinary bladder; a sac or cyst (sac containing fluid) |
| cyt/o | cell |
| -cyte | cell |
| derm/o | skin |
| dermat/o | skin |
| dia- | through, complete |
| dist/o | far, distant |
| dors/o | back portion of the body |
| -eal | pertaining to |
| -ectomy | excision, removal |
| electr/o | electricy |
| -emia | blood condition |
| encephal/o | brain |
| end- | within |
| endo- | within |
| enter/o | intestines (usually the small intestine) |
| epi- | above, upon |
| epi- | above |
| erythr/o | red |
| ex- | out |
| exo- | outside of, outward |
| gastr/o | stomach |
| -genic | pertaining to producing, produced by, or produced in |
| -globin | protein |
| gnos/o | knowledge |
| -gram | record |
| gynec/o | woman, female |
| hem/o | blood |
| hemat/o | blood |
| hepat/o | liver |
| hist/o | tissue |
| hyper/o | excessive, above, more than normal |
| hypo- | deficient, below, under, less than normal |
| hypo- | below |
| -iac | pertaining to |
| iatr/o | treatment, physician |
| -ic | pertaining to |
| -ical | pertaining to |
| ili/o | ilium (part of pelvic bones) |
| in- | into, in |
| inguin/o | groin |
| inter- | between |
| -ion | process |
| -ior | pertaining to |
| -ism | process, condition |
| -ist | specialist |
| -itis | inflammation |
| kary/o | nucleas |
| later/o | side |
| leuk/o | white |
| -logy | process of study |
| lumb/o | lower back side and back between the rids and the pelvis |
| medi/o | middle |
| meta- | change |
| nephr/o | kidney |
| neur/o | nerve |
| nucle/o | nucleas |
| -oma | tumor, mass, swelling |
| onco | tumor |
| ophthalm/o | eye |
| -opsy | process of viewing |
| -ose | pertaining to, full of |
| -osis | condition, usually abnormal (slight increase in numbers when used with blood cells) |
| oste/o | bone |
| path/o | disease |
| -pathy | disease condition |
| ped/o | child |
| pelv/i | pelvis |
| peri- | surrounding, around |
| -plasm | formation |
| poster/o | back, behind |
| prefix | work beginnings |
| pro- | before, forward |
| proxim/o | nearest |
| psych/o | mind |
| radi/o | x-rays |
| re- | back, backward, again |
| ren/o | kidney |
| retr/o | behind |
| rhin/o | nose |
| sacr/o | sacrum |
| sarc/o | flesh |
| -scope | instrument to visually examine |
| -scopy | process of visually examining with an endoscope |
| sect/o | to cut |
| -sis | state of; condition |
| -somes | bodies |
| spin/o | spine, backbone |
| sub- | below |
| thel/o | nipple |
| thorac/o | chest |
| thromb/o | clot, clotting |
| -tomy | process of cutting, incision |
| trache/o | trachea, windpipe |
| trans- | across, through |
| -type | picture, classification |
| umbilic/o | navel, umbilicus |
| ur/o | urinary tract, urine |
| ventr/o | belly side of the body |
| vertebr/o | vertebra(e), backbone(s) |
| viscer/o | internal organs |
| -y | process, condition |
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