Medical Terms

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Medical Terms

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Is It Greek or Latin? Who Cares?

• Gastrectomy
• Appendectomy
• Colonectomy
• Laryngectomy
• Hepatectomy
• Nephrectomy
• Bunionectomy
• pneumonectomy

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Itis

• Pneumonitis
• Bronchitis
• Appendicitis
• Pericardiditis
• Gastritis
• Pancreatitis
• Pleuritis
• Hepatitis

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Try These

• Carcino-
• Arterio-
• Tachy-
• Brady-
• Cysto-
• Endo-
• Ecto-
• Opti-

• Chromo-
• Osteo-
• Nephro-/renal-
• Chrondro-
• Tendo-
• Fibro-
• Procto-/rectal-
• Hema-
• Dento-

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MORE OF THE SAME

• Audio-
• Optic-/oculo-
• Hydro-
• Kinesio-
• Myelo-
• Patho-
• Lympho-
• Pseudo-

• Hyster-
• Oophoro-
• Ovi-
• Mammo-
• Hernia
• Hyper-
• Hypo-
• Cranio-/Cephalo
• Cortico-/Medulla-

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• Microcephalic
• Oophorectomy
• Hyperthermia
• Pericarditis
• Bilateral nephrectomy
• Dysphagia
• Dyspepsia
• Dyspnea

• Paraplegia
• Myositis
• Arthralgia
• Arthritis
• Gerontology
• Craniotomy
• Osteotomy
• Thrombosis
• Chondrocyte

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For Short

• OTC
• PRN
• STAT
• PO
• CPT
• GU
• URI
• DEA/FDA

• DNR
• Ab
• Dx, Tx, Sx
• PAC/PVC
• NPO
• OR, ER
• RBC. WBC
• STD, HIV, AIDS
• TPR, VS

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• Abbreviations
• Compare a sign of the door of a patients room
  that says the following
• CBR, NPO and DNR
• What do you need to know about this patient?

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• The Rx says Take two tablets of aspirin three
  times a day with food and one as bedtime Write
  the orders/prescription for this.

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• The lab report said that the pts. LDL and CBC
  were WNL but should have a C S STAT of the pts
  URI and UA for his UTI.
• Explain

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• Due to the pts. recent CVA and TIAs, the
  internist Rxd an MRI, EEG and CBC by VO
• Pt may have an ad lib diet, 1200 cal ADA with
  BRP. If results suggest MI, Rx pt for Sx in AM c
  NPO post midnight for angioplasty.

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• Pt to be put in NICU to have PT QID when IPPB
  D/Cd and UA WNL and intern to do H P when
  EMTs drop pt off.

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• Pt reported to have WBC in her CSF and HDL in the
  blood with low Hgb count. This suggested to the
  phlebotomist ASH, CAD and PVD.

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• The pt.s pre op BTs required Fe, K, and Ca
  levels, an EKG, to be given MOM post op in PACU

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• The nurses orders said pt had ARC as Dx and Tx
  with CBR, QID WBC and Hct/Hgb tests and gloves at
  all times when measuring I and O and VS, BID to
  include TPR and TID UA.

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• The bumper sticker said love an RN PRN ad lib
  for their TLC.

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• The patient had a sinister hemipneumonectomy for
  carcinoma????

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• The patient had a cystoscope what was the doctor
  looking at?
• arthroscope?
• Nephroscope?
• Angiography?

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• Thoracocentesis, abdominocentesis,
  craniocentesis, craniotomy, thoracotomy,
  phlebotomy, gastrectomy, tonsillectomy,
  oophorectomy, hysterectomy vasectomy

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• The PPC a CC of hemiarthralgia, diploplia,
  intermittent encephalgia, hemoptysis, vertigo,
  periodic euphoria, dermatitis secondary to ASA
  ingestion,and a hx of adenocarcinoma.

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• Pt. examined in PACU from VO from PA Smith
  following a code blue for MI of pt.
• Rxd vasodilator sublingual nitroglycerine tabs
  PRN angina

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• The Dr. order VS to include TPR Q4h, CC and BUN
  with UA hs and PT QID with BRP post 24 h today
  and MOM PO to RO PID followed by MRI in AM by TO.
  

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• This paraplegic suffered TIA episodes followed by
  CVA post IM admin. Of morphine.
• Pt. Dx cum encephalitis and meningitis and will
  have craniotomy following 24 h NPO, preop H and P
  and AP/Lat Xrays

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• To feel nothing at all______________
• The body is blue________________
• The body is red________________
• A drug which is poisonous to the kidney, the
  liver, heart, brain_________________

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• No BMs co MOM

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• Cancer of the bone___________
• Cancer of the bone marrow__________
• What a narcoleptic does________
• Excessive blood loss is________________

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• What a thrombus is________
• What a piece of a thrombus is ___________
• Pus forming _________________

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• Below the breastbone______________
• Cessation of ones period___________
• Ischemia vs. infarction_____________
• DSD BID_________________

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• Hct vs. Hgb____________
• I D _____________
• C S__________________
• D C_____________ S.A.____________

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• L D___________
• Bx Tx Sx Px DDx_______________
• SOAP_________________________

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• pH means___________
• ROM ______________
• PVD___________
• ASH___________ CAD

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• IPPB used to be called this_______________
• Old name was VD, now called __________
• Old name is emphysema, now called _____
• Book for looking up drugs effects ________

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• Common baby vaccine combination_______
• These eye movements let dr. know you are
  dreaming________
• I O refers to the function of what organ?
• What disp and Sig on Rx mean?

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• Contra vs. ipsilateral
• Analgesia vs. anesthesia
• Distal vs. proximal
• Medial vs. lateral
• Superior vs. inferior

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• Sedation vs. tranquilize
• Encephalitis vs. meningitis
• Emesis/emetic
• Paraplegia vs. hemiplegia

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• Paralysis vs. paresis
• Psychosis vs. neurosis
• Polyuria vs. anuria
• Myalgia vs. arthralgia

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• Dysphasia vs. dysphagia
• Thoracocentesis vs thoracotomy