Root Words
cardio or cardia
What is the heart?
a or an
without or lack of
-ectomy
What is removal of?
ac
agitated
What is anxious or nervous?
What is the nerve?
hyper
What is above?
-graph
What is record or picture?
ax
What is axillary?
asepsis
What is to be free of infection or disease?
plegia
What is paralysis?
hypo
What is below?
-megaly
What is enlargement?
NKA
What is no known allergies?
delusions
What is a symptom of mental disorder in which a person cannot tell what is real and what is not?
cephalo
What is the head?
mono
What is one?
-phasia
What is speech?
NPO
What is nothing by mouth
musculoskeletal system
What are the muscles and skeleton?
cysto
What is the bladder?
tachy
What is fast?
-stenosis
What is narrow?
TPR
What is temperature, pulse, respiration?
reminiscence therapy
What is a therapy that encourages the patient to remember and talk about the past?