Intro Flashcards
Allows healthcare professionals to communicate quickly, because….
It uses a common understanding of the terms
The words used in the language of medicine come primarily from which ancient languages?
Greek and Latin
The person widely considered the father of Western medicine is…
Hippocrates
Medical language, places, together, roots, prefixes, and suffixes to describe some aspect of…
Health care
The letter C sounds like a K when it comes before which vowels?
A, O, U
Medical language allows healthcare professionals to be clear because…
We live in a multicultural world, and medical terminology is a way of speaking in the same way, regardless of your native language
The syllables in the word colonoscopy are co / lon/ o / sco / py. The syllable that is the Ultima is…
Py
Local language is comprise primarily of words from the Latin, and _______ languages.
Greek
Which of the following our word parts used to build medical terms?
Suffixes, roots, prefixes
The first people to study the human body, and develop theories about health and disease, where the ancient….
Greeks
What route words mean lung?
Pneum/ o; pulmon/o
What are true about understanding how medical language works?
You will learn the meaning of keywords, you will be able to break down and understand words you have never seen before, you can generate words from their word parts.
Which suffix means small?
-ole
G is pronounced like a J when followed by which vowels?
I, E
The suffix -logy means
Study of
The last syllable of of a word is the…
Ultima
In the word myalgia, the root word means muscle, and the suffix means…
Pain
The type of word part at the end of the word that gives essential meaning to the term is the….
Suffix
The suffix that means instrument used to produce a record is…
-graph
What route words mean skin?
Cutane/ o; derm/ o
Deconstruct the word, rhinoplasty by separating the combining form in the suffix with a hyphen.
Rhino-plasty
What suffix means pertaining to?
-ac, -ous, -ary, -eal
What prefixes mean not?
A-, An-
In the word amniocentesis, the suffix -centesis means…
Puncture
What prefixes mean before?
Pre-, Ante-
The most common combining vowel is…
O
The suffix that means instrument used to produce a record is…
Graph
When is a combining vowel used?
To join a root to another root; to join a root to a suffix that begins with a consonant.
In the word appendectomy, the suffix -ectomy means…
Removal
When is a combining vowel NOT used?
To join a root to a suffix that begins with a vowel
The combining form oste/ o means bone and the suffix-tomy means incision into. Spell the term that means incision to the bone.
Osteotomy
A combining form is a combination of a ______ with a combining vowel.
Root
In the word gastroenterology, the two combining forms mean….
Stomach; intestine
A combining vowel is not used when connecting a root to which of the following suffixes?
-ectomy
Which prefixes mean before?
Pre-, Ante-
A combining vowel is used when joining a root with which of the following suffixes?
-megaly
When defining a medical term, what should you do first?
Interpret the suffix first
A(n) ______ is a word formed by including the name of the person who discovered or invented what is being described. 
Eponym
PERRLA
Pupils are equal, round, and reactive to light and accommodation
What abbreviation does not describe the time of day in which a prescription should be taken?
TID (three times daily)
What abbreviation would most likely be found in the plan portion of a health record?
QHS (at night)
A SOAP note is…
A pattern used in writing medical notes; a way of thinking
A differential diagnosis is…
A list of possible causes of the patient’s problem or complaint
A diagnosis is…
The identification of the actual problem
Scheduling of a surgery (SOAP)
Plan
Past medical history, family history
S (subjective)
