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Medical Term: Unit 2
SOAP Terms and Word Parts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acute | sudden, short duration (usually < 2 wks) |
| aggravating factor | something that makes the problem worse |
| alleviating factor | something that makes the problem better |
| chronic | long duration (usually > 2 wks) |
| complaint | reason for patient’s visit |
| duration | how long problem has lasted |
| gastrointestinal | pertaining to stomach & intestines |
| history | what has happened to patient up to this moment |
| musculoskeletal | pertaining to muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones |
| radiating pain | feels like it spreads out from one point |
| severity | how bad problem is |
| symptom | what the patient is feeling or experiencing |
| temporal | pertaining to time |
| auscultation | listen (to heart, lungs, abdomen, etc) usually via stethoscope |
| biopsy | tissue sample for testing |
| echo | reflecting sound |
| edema | swelling |
| febrile | fever |
| generalized | spread across or throughout body |
| -gram | visual record |
| -graph | instrument used to produce visual record |
| -graphy | process of producing a visual record |
| localized | isolated to one part of body |
| -meter | instrument used to measure |
| -metry | process of measuring |
| palpation | touch, feel (various parts of patient’s body with fingers, hands) |
| percussion | tap body parts with fingers, hands, instruments |
| -scope | instrument for visualizing something |
| -scopy | process of visualizing something |
| sign | what others (not the patient) are able to see/observe |
| systemic | spread throughout body |
| -thermic | temperature |
| benign | safe, non-cancerous |
| diagnosis | clinician’s assessment of patient’s problem, name of problem |
| eti/o | cause of something |
| -gnosis | to know |
| hernia | something sticking out where it shouldn’t |
| ischemia | deficiency of blood flow (to tissue or organ) |
| lesion | damaged/diseased tissue |
| -lith | stone |
| malignant | dangerous, cancerous |
| morbidity | illness |
| morph/o | form, shape |
| mortality | death |
| necr/o | dead |
| -osis | condition |
| path/o | disease (suffering) |
| -plasia | formation, growth |
| prognosis | prediction of outcome |
| sepsis | condition of infection (with bacteria) |
| -trophy | growth, development |
| -tropic | influencing, affect |
| xen/o | foreign |
| cautery | burn or melt |
| cry/o | cold, to freeze |
| desiccate | dry out (completely) |
| -ectomy | surgical removal |
| graft | living tissue, surgically implant living tissue |
| matern/o | mother |
| -natal | newborn, birth |
| orth/o | straight |
| palliative | treat symptoms only |
| -pedia | child |
| -pexy | surgical fixation |
| -plasty | surgical reconstruction |
| prophylaxis | preventive treatment |
| psych/o | mind, mental |
| -rraphy | suture |
| -stomy | surgically create a permanent opening |
| -tomy | cut, incision |
| -tripsy | break apart |
Created by:
ryrenkiewicz
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