SOAP Note Words

Question 1

Afebrile

Answer 1

Without fever

Question 2

Auscultation

Answer 2

The act of listening with a stethoscope

Question 3

Benign

Answer 3

Not harmful

Question 4

Degeneration

Answer 4

Process of falling apart

Question 5

Differential

Answer 5

Separating one thing from another

Question 6

Disposition

Answer 6

Frame of mind; outcome

Question 7

Dyslipidemia

Answer 7

Condition of abnormal fats in the blood

Question 8

Etiology

Answer 8

Study of origins of an illness

Question 9

Febrile

Answer 9

With fever

Question 10

Hypertension

Answer 10

Blood pressure that is too high

Question 11

Hypotension

Answer 11

Blood pressure that is too low

Question 12

Hypoxia

Answer 12

Oxygen concentration in blood that is too low

Question 13

Impression

Answer 13

Observations made by clinician

Question 14

Lesion

Answer 14

Damage or injury

Question 15

Malignant

Answer 15

Harmful

Question 16

Marked

Answer 16

Especially noticeable

Question 17

Noncontributory

Answer 17

Not relevant to patient’s illness

Question 18

Occult

Answer 18

Hidden in an unexpected place

Question 19

Oriented

Answer 19

Patient knows when, where, who they are

Question 20

Palliative

Answer 20

Care designed to make patient more comfortable

Question 21

Palpation

Answer 21

Examining by touching

Question 22

Pathogen

Answer 22

Organism that gives rise to the disease

Question 23

Percussion

Answer 23

Examining by tapping

Question 24

Prognosis

Answer 24

Predicting future of disease

Question 25

Prophylaxis

Answer 25

Treatment to prevent or discourage disease

Question 26

Sequelae

Answer 26

Things that come out one after another; result of an illness

Question 27

Syndrome

Answer 27

Symptoms which occur together

Question 28

Systemic

Answer 28

Pertaining to entire organ system or body

Question 29

Unremarkable

Answer 29

Not prominent, not important

Question 30

Vasodilation

Answer 30

Increase diameter of a blood vessel