Assesment Flashcards
1
Q
Assessment
A
Tests to be done or interpreted, and the diagnosis
2
Q
Benign
A
Safe, non-cancerous
3
Q
Diagnosis
A
What the clinician thinks the patient has
4
Q
Eti/o
A
Cause, how something came to be
5
Q
-gnosis
A
To know
6
Q
Hernia
A
Something that sticks out where it shouldn’t
7
Q
Ischemia
A
Without blood flow
8
Q
Lesion
A
Diseased tissue
9
Q
Lith/o
A
Stone
10
Q
Malignant
A
Dangerous, cancerous
11
Q
Morbidity
A
Risk of being sick
12
Q
Morph/o
A
Change
13
Q
Mortality
A
Risk of dying
14
Q
-osis
A
Condition
15
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Plas
A
Formation
