SOAP A: Assessment Flashcards
1
Q
Benign
A
Safe, non-cancerous
2
Q
Diagnosis
A
What the clinician thinks the patient has.
3
Q
Eti/o
A
Cause, how something came to be.
4
Q
-gnosis
A
to know
5
Q
Hernia
A
Something that sticks out where it shouldn’t be.
6
Q
Lesion
A
Diseased tissue
7
Q
Lith/o
A
Stone
8
Q
Malignant
A
Dangerous cancerous
9
Q
Morbidity
A
Risk of being sick
10
Q
Morph/o
A
Change
11
Q
Mortality
A
Risk of dying
12
Q
Necr/o
A
Dead
13
Q
-osis
A
Condition
14
Q
Path/o
A
Disease (literally, “suffering”)
15
Q
Plas/o
A
Formation
