Unit 2: Talking about Human Anatomy-SOAP word parts

Question 1

Subjective

acute

Answer 1

sudden, short lasting a short time

(typically <2 weeks)

Question 2

Subjective

aggravating factor

Answer 2

something which makes the problem worse

Question 3

Subjective

alleviating factor

Answer 3

something which makes the problem better

Question 4

Subjective

chronic

Answer 4

lasting a long time
(typically <2 weeks)

Question 5

Subjective

complaint

Answer 5

reason for a patient’s visit

Question 6

Subjective

duration

Answer 6

how long somehting has lasted

Question 7

Subjective

gastrointestinal

Answer 7

stomach and intestines

Question 8

Subjective

hematochezia

Answer 8

blood in the stool

Question 9

Subjective

history

Answer 9

what has happened to the patient up to this moment

Question 10

Subjective

musculoskeletal

Answer 10

muscles and skeleton

Question 11

Subjective

radiating

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Subjective

severity

Answer 12

how bad it is

Question 13

Subjective

symptom

Answer 13

what the patient feels or is experiencing

Question 14

Subjective

temporal

Answer 14

having to do with time

Question 15

Objective

auscultation

Answer 15

to listen

Question 16

Objective

biopsy

Answer 16

a tussue sample to be tested

Question 17

Objective

edema

Answer 17

swelling

Question 18

Objective

-gram

Answer 18

visual record

Question 19

Objective

-graph

Answer 19

instrument used to produce a visual record

Question 20

Objective

-graphy

Answer 20

procedure used to produce a cisual record

Question 21

Objective

localized

Answer 21

isolated ot one part of the body

Question 22

Objective

-meter

Answer 22

instrument used for measuring

Question 23

Objective

-metry

Answer 23

process of measuring

Question 24

Objective

palpation

Answer 24

to feel

Question 25

# Objective -scope

Answer 25

instrument for visualizing something

Question 26

# Objective -scopy

Answer 26

process of using an instrument to visualize

Question 27

# Objective sign

Answer 27

what the clinician can measure or observe

Question 28

# Objective systemic

Answer 28

throughout the body

Question 29

# Objective therm/o

Answer 29

temperature

Question 30

# Assement benign

Answer 30

safe, non-cancerous

Question 31

# Assement diagnosis

Answer 31

what the clinician thinks the patient has

Question 32

# Assement eti/o

Answer 32

cause, how something came to be

Question 33

# Assement -gnosis

Answer 33

to know

Question 34

# Assement hernia

Answer 34

something that sticks out where it shouldn't

Question 35

# Assement ischemia

Answer 35

without blood flow

Question 36

# Assement lesion

Answer 36

diseased tissue

Question 37

# Assement lith/o

Answer 37

stone

Question 38

# Assement malignant

Answer 38

dangerous, cancerous

Question 39

# Assement morbidity

Answer 39

risk of being sick

Question 40

# Assement morph/o

Answer 40

change

Question 41

# Assement mortality

Answer 41

risk of dying

Question 42

# Assement necr/o

Answer 42

dead

Question 43

# Assement -osis

Answer 43

condition

Question 44

# Assement path/o

Answer 44

disease (literally, "suffering")

Question 45

# Assement plas/o

Answer 45

formation

Question 46

# Assement prognosis

Answer 46

prediction of what will happen to the patient

Question 47

# Assement septic

Answer 47

infected with bacteria

Question 48

# Assement trop/o

Answer 48

moving forwards or acting on

Question 49

# Assement -trophy

Answer 49

nourishment

Question 50

# Assement xen/o

Answer 50

foreign

Question 51

# Plan cautery

Answer 51

to burn or melt

Question 52

# Plan cry/o

Answer 52

cold, to freeze

Question 53

# Plan dessicate

Answer 53

to dry out

Question 54

# Plan -ectomy

Answer 54

removal (notice ec- prefix list mean "out of" and -tomy in the list means "cutting" so "cutting out of"

Question 55

# Plan graft

Answer 55

living tissue

Question 56

# Plan matern/o

Answer 56

mother

Question 57

# Plan neonat/o

Answer 57

newborn, baby

Question 58

# Plan other/o

Answer 58

straight

Question 59

# Plan palliative

Answer 59

teatment of symptoms only

Question 60

# Plan ped/i

Answer 60

child

Question 61

# Plan ped/o

Answer 61

child

Question 62

# Plan -pexy

Answer 62

surgical fixation; binding by a surgical procedure

Question 63

# Plan -plasty

Answer 63

surgical reconstruction or reformation

Question 64

# Plan prophylaxis

Answer 64

preventative treatment

Question 65

# Plan psych/o

Answer 65

mind, mental

Question 66

# Plan -rraphy

Answer 66

surgical formation of a seam; suturing

Question 67

# Plan -stomy

Answer 67

creation of an openeing

Question 68

# Plan -tomy

Answer 68

cut; incision

Question 69

# Plan -tripsy

Answer 69

breaking apart (greek *tribein*, "to rub")