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Medical Terms
Modules 1-3
| Question | Answe |
|---|---|
| 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 |