Test 2 Flashcards
iatr/o
-iatry
medicine, physician
medical treatment
medic/o
medicine, medical treatment
therap/o
therapeut/o
-therapy
treatment
pharmac/o
pharmaceutic/o
drugs, medicine
diet/o
food
chirurgic/o
surgery
log/o
-logy
word, speech
the study of
nom/o
-nomy
law, custom
knowledge/laws of
physi/o
physic/o
nature, growth, function
physical, natural
techn/o
art, skill
erg/o
-ergasia
work, function
san/o
sanit/o
health
hygien/o
hygiei/o
health
anthrop/o
human
*hom/o
homin/o
human
idi/o
individual, distinct
dem/o
people
ethn/o
race, culture
*gen/o
race, kind, hereditary, gene
andr/o
male, masculine, stamen of a flower
viril/o
male, masculion
gyn/o
gynec/o
female, feminine, pistil of a flower
femin/o
female, feminine
*ped/o
child
pueril/o
child
ger/o
geront/o
elderly, old age
presby/o
elderly, old age
sen/o
senil/o
elderly, old age
gnos/o
gnost/o
-gnosia
-gnosis
-gnomy
knowledge, knowing
eti/o
*aeti/o
cause
esthesi/o
-esthesia
sensation, feeling
morb/o
disease
nos/o
-nosis
disease
path/o
-pathy
-path
disease, feeling, suffering
-path = one affect by a disease, one who treats a disease (osteopath)
mort/o
death
thanat/o
-thanasia
death
necr/o
dead body, dead
febr/o
fever
pyr/o
pyret/o
fever, fire
hem/o
hemat/o
-emia
-hemia
blood
-emia = condition of blood
poly-
many
mult/i
many
cal/o
calor/o
(calor)
heat, calorie
rubr/o
(rubrum, rubor)
red, redness
erythr/o
red, redness (red blood cells)
tum/o
(tumor)
swelling, tumor, abnormall mass
onc/o
-oncus
swelling, tumor, abnormal mass
edemat/o
-edema
(edema)
swelling
troph/o
-trophy
nourishment, growth
tabet/o
(tabes)
wasting
*cel/o
kel/o
-cele
hernia, protrusion
cyt/o
cell
cell/o
cellul/o
(cellula, cellulae)
cell
cancer/o
(cancer)
cancer, crab
carcin/o
cancer, crab
mal/o
malign/o
bad, fault
malign- = cancerous, becoming worse
kak/o
cac/o
bad, faulty
phlog/o
(phlegmon, phlegmasia)
inflammation
dolor/o
(dolor, dolores)
pain
noc/o
noxi/o
pain
alg/o
-algia
-algesia
pain, painful condition, sense of pain
odyn/o
-odynia
pain, painful condition
acu/o
acut/o
(acute)
needle, sharpness, pointed
oxy/o
-oxia
sharpness, quick, acid, oxygen
-oxia = oxygen condition
chron/o
time (prolonged)
pur/o
purul/o
pus
py/o
pus
rhe/o
-rrhea
flow, a discharge
-rrhexis
(rhexis)
a rupture
-rrhagia
-rrhage
rupture with profuse discharge of a fluid (typically blood)
rhagad/o
tear, fissure, cleft
-penia
decrease, deficiency
mega-
megal/o
-megaly
enlargement, large
micr/o
small
macr/o
large, long
lys/o
-lysis
(lysis, lyses)
breakdown, dissolving
malac/o
-malacia
soft, abnormal softening
-ptosis
(ptosis, ptoses)
downward displacement, prolapse
-ectasis
-extasia
(extasis, extases)
dilation, expansion
schiz/o
-schisis
a splitting, a cleft
stas/o
stat/o
-stasis
-stat
(stasis, stases)
a standing, stoppage, cause to stand
-stat = a device for stopping, ceasing something
poiet/o
-poiesis
to make, produce
plast/o
-plast
-plasia
formed, molded
-plast = forming cell or organelle
-plasia = condition of formation, growth
fac/o
fic/o
fact/o
fect/o
to make, cause
gen/o
-gen
to become, be produced
graph/o
-graph
-graphy
writing, a device for an image or written record, or the record itself, process of recording, writing
grammat/o
-gram
something written or drawn, a record or image of something
*metr/o
-meter
-metry
measure, measurement
-meter = measuring instrument
-metry = the process of measuring something
-tomy
-ectomy
-tome
incision
excision
device for making an incision
-stomy
surgical creation of an opening (stoma)
-plasty
surgical reconstruction
-rrhaphy
surgical suturing
-pexy
surgical fixation
-tripsy
crushing
-scopy
-scope
examination, esp. with a device
-scope = a device for looking into a body part
-desis
(desis)
surgical binding, fusion
-centesis
(centesis, centeses)
surgical puncture for aspiration
-section
a cutting
-clasty
a surgical breaking
-trypesis
a surgical boring
tom/o
cut, a section
stom/o
stomat/o
(stoma, stomata)
a mouth, an opening
pex/o
-pexis
(pexis, pexes)
fixation, binding
rhaph/o
rhaphid/o
(rhaphe, rhaphes)
seam, suture
r(h)aphid/o = needle, needle -like
clast/o
-clast
-clasis
-clasia
broken, breaking, a breaker of things, a breaking of something
scop/o
to view
sect/o
sec/o
cut, a section
cis/o
-cide
kill, cut
tript/o
(tripsis, tripses)
crushing, grinding
trepan/o
trephin/o
trypan/o
borer, drilling
trypan- = borer; a genus of parasitic protozoa called trypanosomes
c/o
complanes of
WDWN
well developed and well nourished
CP
chest pain
WNL
within normal limits
Hx
history
Sx
symptoms
R/O
rule out (meaning that this needs to be determined)
D/C
discharge, discontinue
CC
chief complaint
SOB
shortness of breath
RRR
regular rate and rhythm
T
temperature
R
respiration
ETOH
alcohol
NKDA
no known drug allergies
hen/o
one
mon/o
one, alone
dy/o
two, a pair
tri/o
three
tetr/a
four
pent/a
five
hex/a
six
hept/a
seven
okt/a
oct/a
eight
enne/a
nined
ec/a
ten
hendec/a
eleven
dodec/a
twelve
hecat/o
hect/o
one hundred
chili/o
kil/o
one thousand
myri/o
ten thousand, inumerable
prot/o
first
deuter/o
second
trit/o
third
tetart/o
fourth, one-fourth
bis-
two times, two
tris-
ter-
three times, three
tetrakis-
four times, four
un/i
one
du/o
two
tri-
three
quadr/i
four
quinqu/e
five
sex/a
six
sept/i
seven
oct/o
eight
nov/i
nine
dec/a
ten
cent/o
one hundred
mill/i
one thousand
prim/i
first
secund/i
second
terti/a
thrird
quart/a
fourth
quint/a
fifth
sext/i
sixth
septim/a
seventh
octav/a
eighth
non/a
ninth
decim/o
tenth
hydr/o
water, liquid, hydrogen
heli/o
sun, helium
lith/o
stone, lithium
nitr/o
nitrogenous
ox/o
oxygen
neon/o
ne/o
neon
new, recent
phosph/o
phosphorus
chlor/o
green, chlorine
chromi/o
chrom/o
chromat/o
chromium, color
seleni/o
selen/o
selenium, moon, crescent-shaped
brom/o
foul-smelling, bromine
crypt/o
krypt/o
hidden, covered, krypton
rhod/o
rose, red, rhodium
xen/o
foreign, strange, xenon
bar/o
bary/o
weigh, pressure
heavy, dull
osm/o
odor, smell, osmium
thall/o
young branch, shoot, simple plants ( i.e. fungi, lichens, algae, thallium
aktin/o
actin/o
ray, ray-like, radiation, actinium
carb/o
carbon, carbon dioxide
natri/o
natr/o
sodium
silic/o
silica, silicon
kali/o
kal/o
potassium
*calc/o
calcium, lime
ferr/o
iron
argent/o
silver
cupr/o
copper
stann/o
tin
*aur/o
gold
hydrargyr/o
mercury
hedr/o
side
mer/o
-mer
-mere
part, partial
goni/o
gon/o
-gon
angle
erg/o
-urgy
work
pyr/o
fire, fever
hygr/o
moisture, wet, humidity
therm/o
-therm
heat, temperature
calor/o
cal/o
heat, calorie
stoichi/o
element
xer/o
dry
ge/o
earth, land
aer/o
air
top/o
-tope
place
trop/o
-trope
turn, change
cis/o
-cide
cut, kill
trans-
across, through
cis-
on this side
sesqui-
one and a half
is/o
equal
hom/o
same
heter/o
different from, other
enanti/o
opposite
all/o
different, other, foreign
neutr/o
neither, natural
electr/o
electricity
hod/o
od/o
-ode
road, path, traveling
mol/o
molecul/o
mass, mole, molecule
val/o
strength
stere/o
solid, three-dimensional
PO
per os, through the mouth, orally
SL
sublingual
PR
per rectum, through the rectum
PV
per vaginam, through the vagina
ID
intradermal
IM
intramuscular
IV
intravenous
SC (sub-Q)
subcutaneous
ad
to, up to
ad lib
as desired
alt.h.
every other hour
a (with a line over)
ante, before
AC
ante cibum, before food
AM
before midday, morning
aq.
water
AD
auris dextra, right ear
AS
aursi sinistra left ear
AU
auris utraque, each ear
bis
twice
BID
bis in die, twice a day
d
day
et
and
HS
hour of sleep (at bedtime)
noc.
at night
NPO
nihil per os, nothing by mouth
OD
oculus dexter, right eye
OS
oculus sinister, left eye
OU
oculus uterque, each eye (both)
OM
omni mane, every morning
ON
omni nocte, every night
p
post, after
per
through
PC
post cibum, after meal
pm
after midday (afternoon)
PRN
pro re nata, as needed
q
every
q.d, q.2d
every day, every two days
q.i.d
four times a day
Rx
recipe, prescription
s (with a line)
without
ss (with a line)
semis, one half
S, Sig.
signa, indicate (on label)
stat.
immediately
t.i.d.
ter in die, three times a day
ut dict.; u.d
un dictum, as directed
