Last Terms Flashcards
PW
Pulse wave
R/o
Rule out
RLQ
Right lower quadrant
Rt
Right
RUQ
Right upper quadrant
SOB
Shortness of breath
Stat
Immediately
TAH
Total abdominal hysterectomy
Umb
Umbilicus
WNL
Within normal limits
Patchy
Thick
Pan
All entire
Para
Beside, near , similar abdomality
Path(o)
Disease, abnormality
Pathy
Disease, abnormality
Ped(i)-, pedo
Child;foot
-penia
Deficiency
Per-
Through, throughly, intensely
Peri-
Around, about
Phage, -plagiarism, phago-, -phagy
Eating, devoting
Phelb(o)
Vein
-phobe,-phobia
Fear;chemical repulsion
Phon(o)
Sound,speech
Phrenia
Mind
Physi(o)
Physical; natural
-plasia
Formation
-plegia
Paralysis
Pleur(a)-,pleuro
Rib, side, pleura
-pnea, Peno
Breath, respiration
Pneum(a), pneuma(o)
Air, gas, lung, breathing
Poly
Many; multiple
Post
After, behind, posterior
Pre
Anterior, before
Presby
Oid
Pro
Before, foward;precursor
Pseud(o)
False
Pyel(o)
Renal(pelvis)
Pyo
Suppuration, pus
Radio
Radiation, x-ray; radius
Re
Again, back, backward
Rect(o)
Rectum
Ren(o)
Kidney
Retro
Backward,behind
Rhin(o)
Nose
-rrhagia
-discharge,bleeding
-rrhea
Flow
Sacro
Flesh, muscle
Scier(o)
Hardness, ocular sclera
Scrolio
Crooked
-scope
Instrument for viewing
Scot(o)
Shadow, darkness
Semi
One-half;partly
Sept-
Infection
Sin-, sin(o)-,sinu-
Sinus
Somat-,somatotropin-,somatic
Body, bodily
Son(o)
Sound, ultrasound
Spir(o)
Breathing
Splen(o)
Spleen
-stasis
Stopping
Steno
Narrowness, constriction
Stom(a)-, stomat(o)
Mouth
Sub
Beneath, less than normal, inferior
Supra
Above
Say-, sly-,sym-,syn-,sys-
Together
Tachy
Rapid
Therm(o)
Heat
Thora-,thorac)- thoracico, thoraco
Chest, thorax
Thromb(o)
Blood clot
-Tomy
Cutting operation
Tox(i)-,toxic-,toxo
Toxic
Trache(o)
Trachea
Trans
Across, through, beyond
-tropic,trophy-, -trophy
Food, nutrition
Ultra
Beyond
Uni-
One, single
Uria
Urine; urination
Uro
Urine;urinary track
Vaso
Duct;blood vessel
Vasic(o)
Urinary bladder, vesicle
Xanth(o)
Yellow
Xero
Dry
Zym(o)
Enzyme