Unit 2 - prefixes

Question 1

acute

Answer 1

sudden, short lasting a short time (typically <2 weeks)

Question 2

aggravating factor

Answer 2

something which makes the problem worse

Question 3

alleviating factor

Answer 3

something which makes the problem better

Question 4

chronic

Answer 4

lasting a long time (typically >2 weeks)

Question 5

complaint

Answer 5

reason for the patients visit

Question 6

duration

Answer 6

how long something has lasted

Question 7

gastrointestinal

Answer 7

stomach and intestines

Question 8

hematochezia

Answer 8

blood in the stool

Question 9

history

Answer 9

what has happened to the patient up to this moment

Question 10

musculoskeletal

Answer 10

muscles and skeleton

Question 11

radiating

Answer 11

pain that feels like it is moving from one spot to another

Question 12

severity

Answer 12

how bad it is

Question 13

symptom

Answer 13

what the patient feels or is experiencing

Question 14

temporal

Answer 14

having to do with time

Question 15

auscultation

Answer 15

to listen

Question 16

biopsy

Answer 16

a tissue sample to be tested

Question 17

edema

Answer 17

swelling

Question 18

-gram

Answer 18

visual record

Question 19

-graph
-graphy

Answer 19

instrument used to produce a visual record

Question 20

localized

Answer 20

isolated to one part of the body

Question 21

-meter

Answer 21

instrument used to measure

Question 22

-metry

Answer 22

process of measuring

Question 23

palpitation

Answer 23

to feel

Question 24

-scope

Answer 24

instrument for visualizing something

Question 25

-scopy

Answer 25

PROCESS OF using an instrument to visualize something

Question 26

sign

Answer 26

what the clinician can measure or observe

Question 27

systemic

Answer 27

throughout the body

Question 28

therm/o

Answer 28

temperature

Question 29

benign

Answer 29

safe, non-cancerous

Question 30

diagnosis

Answer 30

what the clinician thinks the patient has

Question 31

eti/o

Answer 31

cause, how something came to be

Question 32

-gnosis

Answer 32

to know

Question 33

hernia

Answer 33

something that sticks out where it shouldn’t

Question 34

ischemia

Answer 34

without blood flow

Question 35

lesion

Answer 35

diseased tissue

Question 36

lith/o

Answer 36

stone

Question 37

malignant

Answer 37

dangerous, cancerous

Question 38

morbidity

Answer 38

risk of being sick

Question 39

morph/o

Answer 39

change

Question 40

mortality

Answer 40

risk of dying

Question 41

necr/o

Answer 41

dead

Question 42

-osis

Answer 42

condition

Question 43

path/o

Answer 43

disease

Question 44

plas/o

Answer 44

formation

Question 45

prognosis

Answer 45

prediction of what will happen to the patient

Question 46

septic

Answer 46

infected with bacteria

Question 47

trop/o

Answer 47

moving towards or acting on

Question 48

-trophy

Answer 48

nourishment

Question 49

xen/o

Answer 49

foreign

Question 50

cautery

Answer 50

to burn or melt

Question 51

cry/o

Answer 51

cold, to freeze

Question 52

dessicate

Answer 52

to dry out

Question 53

-ectomy

Answer 53

removal (ec- means “out of” and -tomy mean “cutting” so “cutting out of)

Question 54

graft

Answer 54

living tissue

Question 55

matern/o

Answer 55

mother

Question 56

neonat/o

Answer 56

newborn, baby

Question 57

orth/o

Answer 57

straight

Question 58

palliative

Answer 58

treatment of symptoms only

Question 59

ped/i
ped/o

Answer 59

child

Question 60

-pexy

Answer 60

surgical fixation; binding by a surgical procedure

Question 61

-plasty

Answer 61

surgical reconstruction or reformation

Question 62

prophylaxis

Answer 62

preventative treatment

Question 63

psych/o

Answer 63

mind, mental

Question 64

-rraphy

Answer 64

surgical formation of a seam; SUTURING

Question 65

-stomy

Answer 65

creation of an opening

Question 66

-tomy

Answer 66

cut; incision

Question 67

-tripsy

Answer 67

breaking apart