2- Subjective, Objective, Assessment and Plan (SOAP) Word Parts Flashcards
acute
sudden, short lasting a short time (typically <2 weeks)
aggravating factor
something which makes the problem worse
alleviating factor
something which makes the problem better
chronic
lasting a long time (typically > 2 weeks)
complaint
reason for the patient’s visit
duration
how long something has lasted
gastrointestinal
stomach and intestines
hematochezia
blood in the stool
history
what has happened to the patient up to this moment
musculoskeletal
muscles and skeletion
radiatin
pain that feels like it is moving from one spot to another
severity
how bad it is
symptom
symptom what the patient feels or is experiencing
temporal
having to do with time
auscultation
to listen
biopsy
a tissue sample to be tested
edema
swelling
-gram
visual record
-grpah
instrument used to produce a visual record
-graphy
procedure used to produce a visual record
localized
isolated to one part of the body
-meter
instrument used to measure
-metry
process of measuring
palpation
to feel
-scope
instrument for visualizing something
-scopy
process of using an instrument to visualize something
sign
what the clinician can measure or observe
systemic
throughout the body
therm/o
temperature
benign
safe, non-cancerous
diagnosis
what the clinician thinks the patient has
eti/o
cause, how something came to be
-gnosis
to know
hernia
something that sticks out where it shouldn’t
ischemia
without blood flow
lesion
diseased tissue
lith/o
stone
malignant
dangerous, cancerous
morbidity
risk of being sick
morph/o
change
mortality
risk of dying
necr/o
dead
-osis
condition
path/o
disease (literally, “suffering”)
plas/o
formation
prognosis
prediction of what will happen to the patient
septic
infected with bacteria
trop/o
moving towards or acting on
-trophy
nourishment
xen/o
foreign
cautery
to burn or melt
cry/o
cold, to freeze
dessicate
to dry out
-ectomy
removal (notice ec- in prefixes list means “out of” and -tomy in this list means “cutting” so “cutting out of”)
graft
living tissue
matern/o
mother
neonat/o
newborn, baby
orth/o
straight
palliative
treatment of symptoms only
ped/i
ped/o
child
-pexy
surgical fixation; binding by a surgical procedure (compare -desis)
-plasty
surgical reconstruction or reformation
prophylaxis
preventative treatment
psych/o
mind, mental
-rraphy
surgical formation of a seam; suturing
-stomy
creation of an opening (see stoma = “mouth”)
-tomy
cut; incision
-tripsy
breaking apart (Greek tribein, “to rub”)