2- Subjective, Objective, Assessment and Plan (SOAP) Word Parts

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 patient’s 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 skeletion

Question 11

radiatin

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

symptom 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

-grpah

Answer 19

instrument used to produce a visual record

Question 20

-graphy

Answer 20

procedure used to produce a visual record

Question 21

localized

Answer 21

isolated to one part of the body

Question 22

-meter

Answer 22

instrument used to measure

Question 23

-metry

Answer 23

process of measuring

Question 24

palpation

Answer 24

to feel

Question 25

-scope

Answer 25

instrument for visualizing something

Question 26

-scopy

Answer 26

process of using an instrument to visualize something

Question 27

sign

Answer 27

what the clinician can measure or observe

Question 28

systemic

Answer 28

throughout the body

Question 29

therm/o

Answer 29

temperature

Question 30

benign

Answer 30

safe, non-cancerous

Question 31

diagnosis

Answer 31

what the clinician thinks the patient has

Question 32

eti/o

Answer 32

cause, how something came to be

Question 33

-gnosis

Answer 33

to know

Question 34

hernia

Answer 34

something that sticks out where it shouldn't

Question 35

ischemia

Answer 35

without blood flow

Question 36

lesion

Answer 36

diseased tissue

Question 37

lith/o

Answer 37

stone

Question 38

malignant

Answer 38

dangerous, cancerous

Question 39

morbidity

Answer 39

risk of being sick

Question 40

morph/o

Answer 40

change

Question 41

mortality

Answer 41

risk of dying

Question 42

necr/o

Answer 42

dead

Question 43

-osis

Answer 43

condition

Question 44

path/o

Answer 44

disease (literally, "suffering")

Question 45

plas/o

Answer 45

formation

Question 46

prognosis

Answer 46

prediction of what will happen to the patient

Question 47

septic

Answer 47

infected with bacteria

Question 48

trop/o

Answer 48

moving towards or acting on

Question 49

-trophy

Answer 49

nourishment

Question 50

xen/o

Answer 50

foreign

Question 51

cautery

Answer 51

to burn or melt

Question 52

cry/o

Answer 52

cold, to freeze

Question 53

dessicate

Answer 53

to dry out

Question 54

-ectomy

Answer 54

removal (notice ec- in prefixes list means "out of" and -tomy in this list means "cutting" so "cutting out of")

Question 55

graft

Answer 55

living tissue

Question 56

matern/o

Answer 56

mother

Question 57

neonat/o

Answer 57

newborn, baby

Question 58

orth/o

Answer 58

straight

Question 59

palliative

Answer 59

treatment of symptoms only

Question 60

ped/i ped/o

Answer 60

child

Question 61

-pexy

Answer 61

surgical fixation; binding by a surgical procedure (compare -desis)

Question 62

-plasty

Answer 62

surgical reconstruction or reformation

Question 63

prophylaxis

Answer 63

preventative treatment

Question 64

psych/o

Answer 64

mind, mental

Question 65

-rraphy

Answer 65

surgical formation of a seam; suturing

Question 66

-stomy

Answer 66

creation of an opening (see stoma = "mouth")

Question 67

-tomy

Answer 67

cut; incision

Question 68

-tripsy

Answer 68

breaking apart (Greek tribein, "to rub")