Suffix
Prefix
Words in Action
Abbreviations & Acronyms
Abbreviations & Acronyms
100

meaning away from/ farthest from point of origin

What is distal

100

ante, pre, pro, pros

what means before?

100

mass or tumour of the blood 

what is hemat/o/ma?

100

CNS

what is Central Nervous System?

100

abd

What is Abdomen? 

200

 -ism, -osis, -sis,

what is means condition?

200

post, poster/o/, re, retro

what means behind 

200

inflammation of the urethra 

what is urethr/itis?

200

DNR

What is Do Not Resuscitate? 

200

ad lib

What is freely as tolerated?

300

meaning toward the side of the body


what is lateral

300

uria is urination what prefix do we add to changed it to mean painful urination 

what is dys?

300

Infection of your gallbladder

cholecystitis

300

ADPIE

What is 

Assessment

Document

Plan

Implementation

Evaluation

300

RBC

Red blood Cells

400
the suffix term to "indicating the visual inspection and the instrument used to examine are similar but still different"

what is -scope or -scopy?

400

when a condition occurs on both sides of the body 

what is bilateral?

400

another name for elevated WBC

leukocytosis

400

SOAP

What is Subjective, Objective, Assessment, Plan?

400

PLTS

What are platelets

500

The plural form of the word meaning stones (calculus)

what is calculi?

500

meaning under, beneath, or less than normal

what is sub

500

When a person is breathing to fast

what is tachypnea

500

GCS

What is Glasgow Coma scale

500

PFT 

What are Pulmonary Function Test?

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