Abbreviations
BID
What is twice a day?
A-/An-
What is not, without?
-edema
What is swelling?
Anter/o
What is front?
Biology
What is the study of life?
What is every day?
Derm/a-
What is skin?
-itis
What is inflammation?
Crani/o
What is skull?
Lipoma
What is a fatty tumor?
PRN
What is as needed?
Lip/o-
What is fat?
-oma
What is tumor, mass?
later/o
What is side?
Arthroplasty
What is surgical repair of a joint?
before
What is the letter a with a line over it?
Per-
What is through?
-plasty
What is surgical repair?
Orth/o
What is straight?
Costochondritis
What is inflammation of the ribs and cartilage?
without
What is the letter s with a line over it?
Sym-/Syn-
What is together, with?
-otomy
What is incision, cut into?
Scoli/o
What is crooked, bent?
Cardiomyopathy
What is disease of the heart muscle (englarged heart)?