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Medical Terms

Medical Terms. How To Impress Your Friends. Is It Greek or Latin? Who Cares?. Gastrectomy Appendectomy Colonectomy Laryngectomy Hepatectomy Nephrectomy Bunionectomy pneumonectomy. Itis. Pneumonitis Bronchitis Appendicitis Pericardiditis Gastritis Pancreatitis Pleuritis Hepatitis.

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Medical Terms

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  1. Medical Terms How To Impress Your Friends

  2. Is It Greek or Latin? Who Cares? • Gastrectomy • Appendectomy • Colonectomy • Laryngectomy • Hepatectomy • Nephrectomy • Bunionectomy • pneumonectomy

  3. Itis • Pneumonitis • Bronchitis • Appendicitis • Pericardiditis • Gastritis • Pancreatitis • Pleuritis • Hepatitis

  4. Carcino- Arterio- Tachy- Brady- Cysto- Endo- Ecto- Opti- Chromo- Osteo- Nephro-/renal- Chrondro- Tendo- Fibro- Procto-/rectal- Hema- Dento- Try These:

  5. Audio- Optic-/oculo- Hydro- Kinesio- Myelo- Patho- Lympho- Pseudo- Hyster- Oophoro- Ovi- Mammo- Hernia— Hyper- Hypo- Cranio-/Cephalo— Cortico-/Medulla- MORE OF THE SAME:

  6. Microcephalic Oophorectomy Hyperthermia Pericarditis Bilateral nephrectomy Dysphagia Dyspepsia Dyspnea Paraplegia Myositis Arthralgia Arthritis Gerontology Craniotomy Osteotomy Thrombosis Chondrocyte Try these out for a test drive:

  7. 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 For Short:

  8. 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?

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

  10. 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

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

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

  15. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  21. 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

  22. 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.

  23. 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

  24. 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_________________

  25. No BM’s co MOM

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

  27. What a “thrombus” is________ • What a piece of a thrombus is ___________ • Pus forming _________________

  28. “Below the breastbone”______________ • Cessation of one’s period___________ • Ischemia vs. infarction_____________ • DSD BID_________________

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

  30. L & D___________ • Bx Tx Sx Px DDx_______________ • SOAP_________________________

  31. pH means___________ • ROM ______________ • PVD___________ • ASH___________ CAD

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

  33. 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?

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

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

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

  37. Dysphasia vs. dysphagia • Thoracocentesis vs thoracotomy

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