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Medical Terminology
Medical Coding Professional: Comprehensive Medical Terminology
| Term/Question | Definition/Answer |
|---|---|
| Word root | A word part |
| Combining form | A word root that has a vowel, usually the letter “o” |
| Suffix | The word part attached at the end of a word |
| What does a word root indicate? | The body part involved |
| What does a suffix indicate? | A procedure, condition, disorder, or disease |
| Prefix | The word part attached at the beginning of a word |
| What does a prefix indicate? | Location, time, number, or status |
| -algia | Pain |
| dys- | Bad |
| -ectomy | Surgical removal |
| -itis | Inflammation |
| -ostomy | Surgical opening |
| -otomy | Cutting |
| -plasty | Surgical repair |
| -rrhaphy | Surgical suturing |
| -rrhea | Flow or discharge |
| -rrhexis | Rupture |
| -sclerosis | Abnormal hardening |
| Sign | Objective evidence of a disease |
| Objective | The sign can be evaluated or measured by the patient or others |
| Symptom | Subjective evidence of a disease |
| Subjective | It can be evaluated or measured by only the patient |
| Syndrome | A set of signs and symptoms that occur together as part of a specific disease process |
| Diagnosis | The identification of a disease |
| Differential diagnosis | An attempt to determine which one of several possible diseases is causing the signs and symptoms that are present |
| Prognosis | A prediction of the probably course and outcome of a disease |
| Disease | A condition in which one or more body parts are not functioning normally |
| Eponym | A disease, structure, operation, or procedure named for the first person who discovered or described it |
| Acronym | A word formed from the initial letter of the major parts of a compound term |
| Gastr/o | Stomach |
| Cyan/o | Blue |
| Erythr/o | Red |
| Leuk/o | White |
| Melan/o | Black |
| Poli/o | Gray |
| Enter/o | Small intestine |
| Crani/o | Skull |
| -ac | Pertaining to |
| -al | Pertaining to |
| -ia | Abnormal condition |
| -ion | Abnormal condition |
| -ism | Abnormal condition |
| -iasis | Abnormal condition |
| -osis | Abnormal condition |
| -ago | Abnormal condition |
| -esis | Abnormal condition |
| -ic | Pertaining to |
| -an | Pertaining to |
| -ical | Pertaining to |
| -eal | Pertaining to |
| -tic | Pertaining to |
| -ary | Pertaining to |
| -ar | Pertaining to |
| -ial | Pertaining to |
| -ine | Pertaining to |
| -ior | Pertaining to |
| -ory | Pertaining to |
| -ous | Pertaining to |
| -dynia | Pain |
| -megaly | Enlargement |
| -malacia | Abnormal softening |
| -necrosis | Tissue death |
| -stenosis | Abnormal narrowing |
| Arteri/o | Artery |
| Hepat/o | Liver |
| -centesis | Surgical puncture to remove excess fluid |
| -graphy | Process of producing a picture or record |
| Angi/o | Blood vessel |
| -gram | Picture or record |
| -scopy | Visual examination |
| Arthr/o | Joint |
| My/o | Muscle |
| -rrhage | Bleeding |
| -rrhagia | Bleeding |
| Hem/o | Blood |
| dia- | Through |
| -ab | Away from |
| Dextr/o | Right side |
| Ex- | Outside |
| ad- | Toward |
| Sinistr/o | Left side |
| Olig/o | Scanty, few |
| nat | Birth |
| Peri- | Surrounding |
| Inter- | Between or among |
| Sub- | Under |
| Eu- | Good |
| Intra- | Within |
| Supra- | Above or excessive |
| Eupenea | Easy or normal breathing |
| Interstitial | Between but not within parts of a tissue |
| Subcostal | Below a rib or ribs |
| Supracostal | Above or outside the ribs |
| Laryng/o | Larynx or throat |
| Rhin/o | Nose |
| Ot/o | Ear |
| Lith/o | Stone |
| Cyanosis | Blue discoloration of the skin caused by a lack of adequate oxygen in the blood |
| Poliomyelitis | A viral infection of the gray nerve tissue of the spinal cord |
| Neurorrhaphy | Suturing together the ends of a severed nurse |
| Cranium | The portion of the skill that encloses the brain |
| Gastrosis | Any disease of the stomach |
| Arteriomalacia | Abnormal softening of the walls of an artery or arteries |
| Angiography | The process of producing a radiography (x-ray) study or blood vessels after the injection of a contrast medium to make these blood vessels visible |
| Angiogram | The resulting film that is produced by angiography |
| Hemorrhage | Loss of a large amount of blood in a short time |
| Intramuscular | Within the muscle |
| Edema | Swelling caused by excess fluid in body tissues |
| Endarterial | Pertaining to the interior or lining of an artery |
| Abdominocentesis | Surgical puncture of the abdominal cavity to remove fluid for diagnostic purposes |
| Fissure | A groove or crack-like sore of the skin; also a normal fold in the contours of the brain |
| Fistula | An abnormal passage, usually between two internal organs or leading from an organ to the surface of the body |
| Laceration | A torn, jagged wound or an accidental cut wound |
| Lesion | A pathologic change of the tissues due to disease or injury |
| Malaise | A feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness |
| Palpation | An examination technique in which the examiner’s hands are used to feel the texture, size, consistency, and location of certain body parts |
| Pathology | The study of diseases |
| Phalanges | The bones of the fingers and toes |
| Pyoderma | Any acute, inflammatory, pus forming bacterial skin infection |
| Pyrosis | Discomfort due to the regurgitation of stomach acid upward into the esophagus |
| Supination | The act of rotating the arm so that the palm of the hand is forward or upward |
| Suppuration | The formation or discharge of pus |
| Py/o | Pus |
| Triage | Medical screening of patients to determine their relative priority of need and proper place of treatment |
| Fissure | A groove or crack-like sore of the skin |
| Fistula | An abnormal passage, usually between two internal organs or leading from an organ to the surface of the body |
| Ileum | The last and longest part of the small intestine |
| Ilium | Part of the hip bone |
| Exudate | A fluid, such as pus, that leaks out of an infected wound |
| Mening | Meninges |
| Mucous | The specialized membranes that line the body cavities |
| Myc/o | Fungus |
| -ologist | Specialist |
| Neo- | New |
| Pyel/o | Renal pelvis |
| Pyr/o | Fever or fire |
| Virile | Having the nature, properties, or qualities of an adult male |
| Vir- | Virus or poison |
| Inflammation | A localized response to an injury or to the destruction of tissues |
| What are the key indications of inflammation? | Erythema, hyperthermia, edema, and pain |
| If the singular term ends in the suffix -a , the plural is usually formed by changing the ending to? | -ae |
| If the singular term ends in the suffix -ex or -ix , the plural is usually formed by changing these endings to? | -ices |
| If the singular term ends in the suffix -is , the plural is usually formed by changing the ending to? | -es |
| If the singular term ends in the suffix - itis , the plural is usually formed by changing the -is ending to? | -ides |
| If the singular term ends in the suffix -nx , the plural is usually formed by changing the -x ending to? | -ges |
| If the singular term ends in the suffix - on , the plural is usually formed by changing the ending to? | -a |
| If the singular term ends in the suffix - um , the plural usually is formed by changing the ending to? | -a |
| If the singular term ends in the suffix -us , the plural is usually formed by changing the ending to? | -i |
| Edema | Swelling caused by excess fluid in body tissues |
| Endarterial | Pertaining to the interior or lining of an artery |
| Infection | Invasion of the body by a pathogenic organism |
| Interstital | Between, but not within, the parts of a tissue |
| Malaise | A feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness |
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