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Medical Terminology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does S.O.A.P stand for? | -Subjective (pt. history, problems, complaints) -Objective (observation and discovery) -Assessment (diagnosis and pathology) -Plan (treatments and therapies) |
| Medical language allows healthcare professionals to | -Be clear -Communicate Quickly -Provide comfort to patients |
| Medical language comes mostly from what two languages? | -Greek -Latin |
| What is an Eponym? | A person, real or mythical, or a place that gives its name to an object, place, discovery or concept. example: Lou Gehrig's Disease |
| What is an acronym? | A short word made from the first letters of a longer phrase example: MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) |
| What is the last syllable in a word? | Ultima |
| What is the almost last syllable in a word? | Penult |
| What syllable is right before the penult? | Antepenult |
| When it comes to emphasizing the right syllable, the basic rule is that the emphasis falls on which syllable? | The third to last; Antepenult |
| What is a root word? | Foundation of a subject or term |
| What is the suffix? | ending that gives essential meaning to a term |
| What is the prefix? | added to the beginning of a term when needed to further modify the root. |
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