Chapter one - Terminology Flashcards
1
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Cell
A
-Cyte or cyt-
2
Q
Removal of a structure
A
-ectomy
3
Q
Blood
A
-emia or hemo-
4
Q
Breasts
A
-mastia
5
Q
Measurement
A
-metric
6
Q
State, usually diseased
A
-osis
7
Q
Fixation or a structure
A
-pexy
8
Q
Molding, shaping, reconstruction
A
-plasty
9
Q
Breath, respiration
A
-pnea
10
Q
Flowing, flow
A
-rrhea
11
Q
Using an instrument to view
A
-scopy
12
Q
Of or relating to urine
A
-turia
13
Q
Without
A
a- or an-
14
Q
Up/against/re- (not to be confused with a-/an- or with the linking vowel -a-)
A
ana-
15
Q
Masculine
A
andro-
16
Q
Pain or pressure in the chest
A
angina
17
Q
Human, mankind (both men/women)
A
anthropo-
18
Q
Head
A
cephal-
19
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Body
A
corpus
20
Q
Of or related to the skin
A
cutaneous
21
Q
Through
A
dia-
22
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Bad or difficult
A
dys-
23
Q
Upon
A
epi-
24
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Out/outside or exterior
A
eco- (-ec-)
25
Feminine, female
gyn- or gyno-
26
Higher than normal, excessive
hyper-
27
Lower than normal, deficient
hypo-
28
White
Leuko- or leuk-
29
Stone, stone-like, often calcification
litho-
30
Straight or ordered, aligned
ortho-
31
Near or around
peri-
32
Of our related to the nose
rhin- or rhino-
33
Chest
thorax
34
Little or few
oligo-
35
Burst open
-lytic
36
Intestines (small intestines)
-entero-
37
Which of the following is a term for the accumulation of blood in a well circumscribed region?
Hematoma
38
What should you do if a patient walks out of a hospital against medical advice refusing to sign discharge papers?
Notate the refusal in the patient's file.
39
B.U.N
Blood Urea Nitrogen
40
SOB
Shortness of Breath
41
GTT
Glucose Tolerance Test
