Prefixes
This prefix means blood vessel/lymphatic vessel
What is angi/o?
This combining form means cell.
What is cyt/o?
This suffix means mass or tumor.
What is -oma?
This is the medical abbreviation for blood pressure.
What is BP?
Medical term for chest pain.
What is angina pectoris?
Use of a stethoscope to listen to the heart sounds.
What is Auscultation?
Decreased amount of red blood cells
What is anemia?
The prefix around.
What is peri?
This means muscle.
What is my/o?
This is the process of reshaping by surgery.
What is -plasty?
This is the unabbreviated name for DVT.
What is Deep venous thrombosis?
A life-threatening allergic reaction.
What is anaphylactic shock?
This medical term means absence of heartbeat or cardiac arrest.
What is asystole?
Enlarged heart
What is cardiomegaly?
The prefix against, opposing
What is anti-?
This combining form means blood clot.
What is thromb/o?
It's the suffix that means condition of the blood; substance in the blood.
What is -emia?
This is the unabbreviated term for SOB
What is Shortness of Breath?
What is hemorrhage?
This is the medical term for bruising.
What is ecchymosis?
Procedure to make a small hole in the vein and collect a blood sample with a vacuum tube
What is Phlebotomy?
The prefix within, in.
What is Leuk/o?
This suffix means to break down or destroy
What is -lysis?
What is a Electrocardiography?
If you see this diagnosis in your patient's chart, you know the layman's term is "heart attack".
What is myocardial infarct?
It means abnormal condition of one nucleus.
What is mononucleosis?
Hardened artery
What is arteriosclerosis?
The prefix half.
What is scler/o?
This suffix that begins with "p" means condition of deficiency.
What is -penia?
This is the unabbreviated name for DIC.
What is disseminated intravascular coagulation?
A doctor was going to try an experimental surgery on your patient, you explain to your patient that they are having both lungs and their spleen removed, this made up medical term.
What is a bilateral pneumosplenectomy?
this term means disease producing
What is pathogenic?
Weakening and ballooning artery
What is an aneurysm?