Medical Terms

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Gastrectomy Appendectomy Colonectomy Laryngectomy Hepatectomy Nephrectomy Bunionectomy pneumonectomy

Itis

Pneumonitis Bronchitis Appendicitis Pericardiditis Gastritis Pancreatitis Pleuritis Hepatitis

Try These:

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

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

MORE OF THE SAME:

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

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

Try these out for a test drive:

Microcephalic Oophorectomy Hyperthermia Pericarditis Bilateral nephrectomy Dysphagia Dyspepsia Dyspnea

Paraplegia Myositis Arthralgia Arthritis Gerontology Craniotomy Osteotomy Thrombosis Chondrocyte

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

Abbreviations:

Compare a sign of the door of a patient’s room that says the following:

CBR, NPO and DNR

What do you need to know about this patient?

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

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

Explain

Due to the pts. recent CVA and TIA’s, the internist Rx’d 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.

Pt to be put in NICU to have PT QID when IPPB D/C’d and UA WNL and intern to do H & P when EMT’s drop pt off.

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.

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

The nurse’s 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.

The bumper sticker said; “love an RN PRN ad lib for their TLC.”

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

The patient had a cystoscope; what was the doctor looking at?

arthroscope?

Nephroscope?

Angiography?

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

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

Pt. examined in PACU from VO from PA Smith following a code blue for MI of pt.

Rx’d vasodilator sublingual nitroglycerine tabs PRN angina

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.

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

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_________________

No BM’s co MOM

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

What a “thrombus” is________ What a piece of a thrombus is ___________

Pus forming _________________

“Below the breastbone”______________

Cessation of one’s period___________

Ischemia vs. infarction_____________

DSD BID_________________

Hct vs. Hgb____________

I & D _____________

C & S__________________

D & C_____________ S.A.____________

L & D___________

Bx Tx Sx Px DDx_______________

SOAP_________________________

pH means___________

ROM ______________

PVD___________

ASH___________ CAD

IPPB used to be called this_______________

Old name was VD, now called __________

Old name is emphysema, now called _____

Book for looking up drugs’ effects ________

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?

Contra vs. ipsilateral

Analgesia vs. anesthesia

Distal vs. proximal

Medial vs. lateral Superior vs. inferior

Sedation vs. tranquilize

Encephalitis vs. meningitis

Emesis/emetic

Paraplegia vs. hemiplegia

Paralysis vs. paresis

Psychosis vs. neurosis

Polyuria vs. anuria

Myalgia vs. arthralgia

Dysphasia vs. dysphagia

Thoracocentesis vs thoracotomy