Anatomy of Terms
Conveying the essential meaning of a term.
What is the root word?
Whose right or left do I use when discussing a patient's medical assessment?
Who is the patient?
DNR
What is do not resuscitate?
Cardi/o refers to this.
What is the heart?
When I say hyperemesis, this is happening.
What is excessive vomiting?
How the parts of a medical word are put together determine this.
What is its meaning?
The umbilicus is _______ to the groin, and _________ to the head.
What is superior and inferior?
SAMPLE
What is Signs/Symptoms, Allergies, Medications, Past Pertinent History, Last Oral Intake, and Events leading up to illness?
Cerebr/o refers to this.
What is the brain?
Apneic is this.
What is not breathing?
This word part usually describes number, color, location or intensity.
What is a prefix?
This term describes a body part that is farther away from the trunk.
What is distal?
>
What is greater than?
Brachi/o refers to this.
What is the arm?
If a patient is bradycardic, this is happening.
What is a slow heart rate?
When describing a procedure, condition, disease, or part of speech, you add this.
What is a suffix?
When a body part is located away from the midline.
What is lateral?
BVM
What is a bag-valve mask?
Thorac/o refers to this.
What is the chest?
If I have dysuria, what is going on?
What is having a difficult time urinating?
When a medical term has two or more root words, I add one of these.
What is a vowel?
When a structure of the body occurs on each side of the midline, it is called this.
What is bilateral?
ETOH
What is ethyl alcohol?
Pharyng/o refers to this.
What is the throat?
Your baby has macrocephaly which means this.
What is an enlarged head?