Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password


Make sure to remember your password. If you forget it there is no way for StudyStack to send you a reset link. You would need to create a new account.
Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

Appendix A and C

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Term
Meaning
a-, an, ana-   no, not, without  
🗑
anti-   against  
🗑
ante-   before, forward  
🗑
bi-   two, double, both  
🗑
brady-   slow  
🗑
contra-   against, opposite  
🗑
dys-   difficult, painful  
🗑
endo-   within  
🗑
epi-   above, upon  
🗑
gynec/o   woman  
🗑
hemi-   half  
🗑
hyper-   above, excessive  
🗑
hypo-   below, deficient  
🗑
inter-   between  
🗑
intra-   within  
🗑
mal-   bad, poor, abnormal  
🗑
neo-   new  
🗑
non-   not  
🗑
para-   near, beside  
🗑
per-   through  
🗑
peri-   around, surrounding  
🗑
poly-   many, excessive  
🗑
post-   after  
🗑
pre-   before, in front of  
🗑
retro-   behind, backwards, upward  
🗑
semi-   half  
🗑
sub-   below, under  
🗑
syn-   together, with  
🗑
tachy-   fast  
🗑
tri-   three  
🗑
-algia   pain  
🗑
-cyte   cell  
🗑
-ectomy   surgical removal, exision  
🗑
-emesis   vomit  
🗑
-emia   blood  
🗑
-ism   condition  
🗑
-itis   inflammation  
🗑
-lepsy   seizures  
🗑
-oid   resembling, like  
🗑
-(o)logist   specialist in the study or treatment of  
🗑
-(o)logy   study of  
🗑
-oma   tumor  
🗑
-osis   abnormal condition  
🗑
-ostomy   creation of an opening  
🗑
-otomy   incision into  
🗑
-pathy   disease  
🗑
-phobia   abnormal fear  
🗑
-plasty   surgical repair  
🗑
-pnea   breathing  
🗑
-rrhea   flow, discharge  
🗑
-sclerosis   hardening  
🗑
-stasis   control, stop  
🗑
abdomin/o   abdomin  
🗑
arteri/o   artery  
🗑
arthr/o   joint  
🗑
ather/o   fat, fatty plague  
🗑
audi/o   hearing, sound  
🗑
aur/o   ear  
🗑
bronch/o   brohusnc  
🗑
bucc/o   cheek  
🗑
carcin/o   cancer  
🗑
cardi/o   heart  
🗑
cerebr/o   cerebrum  
🗑
coagul/o   clotting  
🗑
cyst/o   bladder, sac  
🗑
cyt/o   cell  
🗑
derm/o, dermat/o   skin  
🗑
electr/o   electricity  
🗑
encephal/o   brain  
🗑
eosin/o, erythr/o   red  
🗑
gastr/o   stomach  
🗑
gyn/o, gyn/e, gynec/o   woman  
🗑
hemat/o, hem/o   blood  
🗑
hepat/o   liver  
🗑
hydr/o   water, fluid  
🗑
hyster/o   uterus  
🗑
immune/o   protection  
🗑
lip/o   fat  
🗑
lymph/o   lymph  
🗑
muc/o   mucus  
🗑
my/o   muscle  
🗑
narc/o   sleep  
🗑
nas/o   nose  
🗑
nephr/o   kidney  
🗑
neur/o   nerve  
🗑
oculo/o, ophthalm/o, opt/o   eye  
🗑
or/o   mouth  
🗑
oste/o   bone  
🗑
pancreat/o   pancreas  
🗑
phleb/o   vein  
🗑
phot/o   light  
🗑
pneum/o   lungs, air  
🗑
proct/o   rectrum  
🗑
psych/o, psych/i   mind or soul  
🗑
pulmon/o   lungs  
🗑
quadr/i   four  
🗑
rect/o   rectum  
🗑
ren/o   kidney  
🗑
rhin/o   nose  
🗑
septi   bacteria  
🗑
thorac/o   chest  
🗑
thromb/o   clot  
🗑
trache/o   trachea  
🗑
urethr/o   urethra  
🗑
ven/o   vein  
🗑
cerebrospinal   Pertaining to the brain and the spinal cord  
🗑
cerebrovascular   Pertaining to the brain and blood vessels that supply it  
🗑
epidural   Pertaining to above the dura mater  
🗑
epilepsy   A disorder of the central nervous system characterized by recurrent seizures  
🗑
meningitis   Inflammation of the meninges of the brain  
🗑
neuralgia   Nerve pain  
🗑
neurologist   A physician who specializes in diseases of the neurological system  
🗑
schizophrenia   a type of psychosis in which the mind is said to be split from reality  
🗑
bradycardia   Pertaining to a slow heart rate  
🗑
cardiologist   A physician who specializes in diseases of the heart  
🗑
cardiomyopathy   Disease of the heart muscle  
🗑
endocardium   Membrane lining the cavities of the heart  
🗑
hypertension   High blood pressure  
🗑
hypoxemia   Too little oxygen in the blood  
🗑
myocarditis   Inflammation of the heart muscle  
🗑
myocardium   Heart muscle tissue  
🗑
pericardium   Lining around the outside of the heart  
🗑
tachycardia   Pertaining to a fast heart rate  
🗑
bronchitis   Inflammation of the bronchi  
🗑
dyspnea   Difficult, painful, or faulty breathing  
🗑
hypoxia   A condition of deficient oxygen levels  
🗑
pharyngitis   Inflammation of the pharynx  
🗑
pulmonologist   Specialist in diseases of the lungs  
🗑
rhinoplasty   Surgical repair of the nose  
🗑
rhinorrhea   Discharge of the nose  
🗑
spirometry   Measurement of breathing  
🗑
stethoscope   Instrument used to listen to lung and heart sounds through the chest wall  
🗑
arthritis   Inflammation of the joints  
🗑
bursitis   Inflammation of the bursa, a fluid-filled sac around joints  
🗑
intramuscular   Pertaining to within the muscle  
🗑
myalgia   Muscle pain  
🗑
orthopedic   Literally, means pertaining to straight foot Pertaining to the study of diseases of the skeletal and muscular system  
🗑
tendinitis   Inflammation of the tendon  
🗑
endocrinology   Study of the secreting glands that comprise the endocrine system  
🗑
hyperglycemia   Too much sugar in the blood  
🗑
hyperthyroidism   Condition of too much thyroid hormone  
🗑
hypokalemia   Low blood potassium  
🗑
pancreatitis   Inflammation of the pancreas  
🗑
autoimmune   The disorder characterized by abnormal function of the immune system that causes the body to produce antibodies against itself  
🗑
immunocompromised   A condition in which the immune system has been compromised by disease or immunosuppressive agents  
🗑
leukemia   A malignant blood disease marked by abnormal white blood cells, or leukocytes  
🗑
metastasis   The spread of cancer cells beyond the original site of the tumor through blood or lymph  
🗑
anemia   A blood condition in which there is a reduction in the number of red blood cells, hemoglobin, or the volume of packed red blood cells  
🗑
hematology   Medical study of the blood  
🗑
myeloma   Tumor of the bone marrow  
🗑
cholecystectomy   Surgical removal of the gall bladder  
🗑
cirrhosis   Chronic liver condition that causes yellowing of tissues  
🗑
colonoscopy   Process of viewing the colon  
🗑
dyspepsia   The condition of indigestion, or of painful digestion  
🗑
dysphagia   Pertaining to difficulty in eating or swallowing  
🗑
esophagitis   Inflammation of the esphagus  
🗑
gastroenterologist   Specialist in the study of treatment of the stomach and intestines  
🗑
nasogastric   Pertaining to the nose and the stomach (a tube that travels from the nose to the stomach)  
🗑
pancreatitis   Inflammation of the pancreas  
🗑
sublingual   Pertaining under the tongue  
🗑
nephrectomy   Surgical removal of a kidney  
🗑
polyuria   Condition in which one urinates excessively  
🗑
pyelonephritis   Inflammation of the renal pelvis area of the kidney  
🗑
urologist   Physician who specializes in conditions of the urinary stystem  
🗑
conjunctivitis   Inflammation of the conjunctiva  
🗑
intraocular   Pertaining to the inside of the eye  
🗑
ophthalmologist   Specialist in diseases of the eye  
🗑
optometry   Process of measuring the eye  
🗑
photophobia   Extreme sensitivity and discomfort from light  
🗑
myringitis   Inflammation of the tympanic membrane  
🗑
otitis   Inflammation of the ear  
🗑
dermatitis   Inflammation of the skin  
🗑
dermatologist   Specialist in the study of diseases of the skin  
🗑
epidermal   Pertaining to the skin  
🗑
histology   The study of tissues  
🗑
percutaneous   Through the skin  
🗑
subcutaneous   Pertaining to below the skin  
🗑
gynecologist   A physician who specializes in the reproductive system of woman  
🗑
hysterectomy   The surgical removal of the uterus  
🗑
mammogram   An x-ray of the breast  
🗑
obstetrics   The specialty pertaining to the care and treatment of mother and fetus through-out pregnancy, childbirth, and the immediate postpartum period  
🗑
vasectomy   Excision of part of the vas deferens to produce male sterility  
🗑
absorption   The amount of medicine that enters the bloodstream, or systemic circulation  
🗑
accreditation   The process of granting recognition or vouching for compliance with established criteria (usually refers to recognition of an institution or program)  
🗑
adjudication   Prescription claims adjudication refers to the determination of the insurer's payment after the member's insurance benefits are appplied to a medical claim  
🗑
aseptic technique   The technique and procedures designed to prevent contamination of drugs, packaging, equipment, or supplies by microorganisms during prepartation  
🗑
automated dispensing technology   Electronic storage cabinets or robotics that secure medications and despense them to nurses or tother caregivers when needed  
🗑
automated medication dispensing device   A drug storage device or cabinet that contains an inventory of medications that are electronically dispensed so they may be administered to patients in a controlled manner  
🗑
Average wholesale price (AWP)   A commonly used benchmark for billing drugs that are reimbursed in the community pharmacy setting. The AWP for a drug is set by the manufacturer of the drug.  
🗑
Beyond-use labeling   A date that is given to a medication noting when it should no longer be used, also referred to as the expiration date.  
🗑
Bioavailability   The percentage of an administered dose of a medication that reaches the bloodstream.  
🗑
Brand-name drug   A drug that is covered by a patent and is therefore only available from a single manufacturer.  
🗑
Buccal   A solid medication dosage form that is placed in the pocket between the cheek and gum and absorbed through the cheek into the bloodstream.  
🗑
Centralized dispensing automation   Technology that assists in the selection and dispensing of drug products that are located in the central location, such as the pharmacy, and that can include robotics and carousels that use bar code scanning to select and label drug products for patients.  
🗑
Centralized pharmacy   Pharmacy services that are provided from one location (usually centrally located) in the hospital. Pharmacy personnel, resources, and functions primarily reside within this self-contained location.  
🗑
Chain pharmacy   A pharmacy that is part of a large number of corporately owned pharmacies that use the same name and carry similarly branded OTC products.  
🗑
Community pharmacy   Generally a stand-alone pharmacy located within a community provides medication services to ambulatory patients.  
🗑
Compounding   Ususally takes place in a pharmacy and includes the preparation, mixing, packaging, and labeling of a small quantity of a drug based on a practitioner's prescription or medication order for a specific patient  
🗑
Controlled substances   Drugs or chemical substances whose possession and use are regulated under the Federal Controlled Substances Act and by state controlled substance laws and regulations.  
🗑
Copayment (Copay)   The portion of the cost of a prescription that the patient is responsible for paying when a part of the cost is covered by a third-party payer.  
🗑
Decentralized pharmacy   Pharmacy services that are provided on or near a patient care area. These services are often supported by a central pharmacy. A pharmacy satellite is an example of one form of a decentralized pharmacy service  
🗑
Direct purchasing   The act of preparing a medication for use by a patient as authorized by a prescription.  
🗑
Drug distribution services   The system(s)used to distribute medications that begins when the medication is received by the pharmacy and ends when the medication is administered to the patient.  
🗑
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)   The federal agency that administers and enforces federal laws for controlled substances and illegal substances such as narcotics and other danerous drugs. The DEA is part of the U.S. Department of Justice.  
🗑
Durable medical equipment   Reusable equipment used for the treatment of illness or injury (wheelchairs, walkers, blood)  
🗑
Electronic medication administration record (eMAR)   A component of the computerized patient medical record in which nurses and other healthcare providers document times and dates when a medication was administered to the patient  
🗑
Elixir   A clear, sweet, flavored water-and-alcohol (hydroalcoholic) mixture intended for oral use.  
🗑
Excretion   The irreversible removal of a drug or metabolite from a body fluid. The most common location of drug excretion in the body is the kidneys; the biliary tract is another important route of excretion.  
🗑
Formulary   A specific list of drugs that are included with a given prescription drug plan.  
🗑
Generic drug   A drug that is no longer covered by a patent and is therefore generally available from multiple manufacturers, usually resulting in a significant reduction in cost.  
🗑
Hazardous material   Any material that poses a risk to people, animals, property, or the environment  
🗑
Health Insurance Portablility and Accountability Act (HIPAA)   Federal legislation enacted to establish guidlines for the protection of patients private health information  
🗑
Hospital formulary   An approved list of medication that are routinely stocked in the hospital pharmacy to treat the types of patients the hospital typically serves  
🗑
Inhalant   A fine powder or solution of a drug delivered as a mist through the mouth into the respiratory tract.  
🗑
Intracardiac   Injected directly into the heart muscle  
🗑
Intradermal   Injected into the top layers of the skin  
🗑
Intramuscular   Injected directly into a large muscle mass, such as the upper arm, thigh, or buttock, and absorbed from the muscle tissue into the bloodstream  
🗑
Intrathcal   Injected into the space around the spinal cord  
🗑
Intravenous   Injected directly into a vein and therefore immediately available to act in the body  
🗑
Legend drug   A drug that is required by federal law to be dispensed by prescription only. It is the older term for drugs that are now identified as "RX Only"  
🗑
Licensure   The process by which an agency of the government grants permission to an individual a degree of competency necessary to ensure that public health, safety, and welfare will be protected  
🗑
Lozenge   A hard, disk-shaped solid medication dosage form that contains medication in a sugar base, which released as the lozenge is held in the mouth and sucked  
🗑
Mail-order pharmacy   A pharmacy that functions like a warehouse, with pharmacists and technicians who dispense prescriptions that are mailed to (not picked-up)by patients  
🗑
Material safety data sheets   Information sheets proveded by manufacturers for chemicals or drugs that may be hazardous in the workplace. They provide information for their safe use, and recommendations to treat an exposure or clean up a spill  
🗑
Medication administration record (MAR)   A component of the paper patient medical record in which nurses and other helathcare providers document times and dates when a medication was administered to the patient  
🗑
Medication error   Any error occurring in the medication use process  
🗑
Medication order   A written, electronic, telephone, or verbal request for a patient medication in an inpatient setting.  
🗑
Medication therapy management (MTM)   A service or group of servies that optimize therapeutic outcomes of a patient.  
🗑
National Drug Code (NDC)   A unique number assigned to each drug, strength, and package size for the purpose of identification.  
🗑
Ointment   A semisolid medication dosage form, applied to the skin or mucous membranes, which lubricates and softens or is used as a base for drug delivery.  
🗑
Parenteral   A route of medication administation that bypasses the gastrointestinal tract, such as intravenous, intramuscular, or subcutaneous administration.  
🗑
Patient counseling   The act of educating a patient, by apharmacist, regarding the proper use of a prescribed drug, at the time of dispensing.  
🗑
Patient profile   A list of information about the patient, name, identification number, DOB, sex, height, weight, lab values, diagnoses, room and bed number, doctor, allergies, medication history, special considerations and clinical comments.  
🗑
Pharmacist   A health care professional licensed by the state to engage in the practice of pharmacy. Training in pharmacology (study of drugs), pharmacokinetics (the process absorbed, distributed, metabolized,eliminated in the body.  
🗑
Pharmacy satellite   A physical space located in or near a patient care area that can provide a variety of distributive and clinical services.  
🗑
Practice of pharmacy   The practice of pharmacy is regulated by each state through its pharmacy laws and regulations.  
🗑
Prescription   The written or verbal authorization, by an authorized prescriber, for the use of a particular pharmaceutical agent for an individual patient. This term also refers to the physical product dispensed.  
🗑
Primary prescription label   A label, afficed to a dispensed drug product, that contains legally required information, including pharmacy name and address, patient name, prscriber name, drug name, dirction for use, date dispensed, cautionary statements, lot number, expiration date  
🗑
Professionaln   A person who practices an occupation or vocation that requires advanced specialized training.  
🗑
Professionalism   Actively demonstrating the attitudes, qualities and behaviors of a professional while performing the duties of one's profession "putting the needs of others before your own."  
🗑
Purchase order   A document executed by a purchaser and forwarded to a supplier that is considered a legal offer to buy products or services.  
🗑
Registration   The process of maiking a list or being enrolled in an existing list. PT may be required to be registered w/ state board of pharmacy  
🗑
STAT   Latin word statim, need of the drug right away  
🗑
Stock rotation   Placing the products that will expire the soonest in the front of the shelf or bin and those with later expiration dates behind them.  
🗑
Subcutaneous   Deposited in the tissue just under the skin.  
🗑
Sublingual   Placed under the tonue, where it dissolves and is absorbed into the bloodstream.  
🗑
Suspension   A mixture of fine particles of an undissolved solid spread throughout a liquid or, less commonly, a gas  
🗑
Technician   An individual skilled in the practical or mechanical aspects of a profession. A pharmacy technician assists pharmacists by perfoming routine, day-to-day functions of the practice of pharmacy that do not require the judgment of a pharmacist.  
🗑
Topical   Applied to the skin, mucous membranes, or other external parts of the body, such as fingernails, toenails, and hair.  
🗑
Transdermal   Through the skin; percutaneous.  
🗑
Unit dose distribution system   A system that provides all or most medications to patinets in a unit dose ready-to-admisister form.  
🗑
Unit-dose package   A non-reusable container designed to hold a quantity of drug to be administered as a single dose.  
🗑
Wholesaler   A large-scale warehouse with drugs and supplies located in various geographic regions that exist to help bring pharmaceutical products closer to the market.  
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: lisamarie30
Popular Medical sets