Word Parts
albumin/o
What is the combining form for albumin, protein?
The artery located at the side of the forehead and is one of the pulse points of the body.
What is the Temporal?
Excessive acid in the body fluids.
What is Acidosis?
An examination technique in which the examiner's hands are used to feel the texture, size, consistency, and location of certain body parts.
What is Palpation?
The study of the nature, uses, and effects of drugs for medical purposes.
What is Pharmacology?
creatin/o
What is the combining for for creatine?
The other terms meaning abdominal sounds.
What are bowel sounds?
The presence of glucose in the urine.
A surgical puncture to remove excess fluid or to remove fluid for diagnostic purposes.
What is Centesis?
A drug that is a medication that can legally be dispensed only by a pharmacist with an order from a licensed professional such as a physician or dentist.
What is a Prescription Drug?
son/o
What is the combining form for sound?
The terms meaning patient lying on the back, face up, with the feet and legs raised and supported in stirrups.
What is lithotomy position?
Abnormal crackle-like lung sounds heard through a stethoscope during inspiration.
What is Rales?
The removal of a small piece of living tissue for examination to confirm or establish a diagnosis.
What is a Biopsy?
The interaction of two drugs taken together that enhances the effectiveness of both.
What is Synergism?
-otomy
What is the suffix meaning cutting, surgical incision?
Which heart beat is heard first when listening with a stethoscope?
What is the lubb sound?
Pain that comes on quickly, can be severe and lasts only a relatively short time.
What is acute pain?
A scan that uses a thin, fan-shaped x-ray beam that rotates around the patient to produce multiple cross-sectional view of the body.
What is Computed Tomography?
The class of drugs that relieves pain without affecting consciousness.
What is analgesic?
-scopy
What is the suffix meaning visual examination?
These terms are the four key indications that the body systems are functioning.
What is Vital Signs?
An abnormal sound or murmur heard during auscultation of an artery.
What is a Bruit? (BREW-ee)
The use of a combination of radio waves and a strong magnetic field to created signals that are sent to a computer and converted into images of any plane through the body.
What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging or MRI?
A traditional Chinese touch therapy involving finger pressure applied to specific areas of the body to restore the flow of qi.
What is Acupressure?