Suffix
Combing forms
Vital Signs
Abbreviations
Body System
100

Pain

What is -algia?

100

Egg or Ovum

What is O/o?

100

60-100 bpm

What is the average adult pulse?
100

Nothing by mouth

What is NPO?

100

Patella

What is the musculoskeletal? 

200

Surgical Removal

What is -ectomy?

200

Fallopian tubes

What is Salping/o?

200

12-20

What is the average adult respiratory rate?
200

Four times a day

What is Q.I.D?

200

Sigmoid colon

What is digestive? 

300

Inflammation 

What is -itis?

300

Uterus 

What is Uter/o?

300

A weight instrument that uses a pivoting lever to measure mass

What is a beam scale?

300

Axillary

What is Ax?

300

Vena Cava

What is the cardiovascular? 

400

Narrowing

What is -stenosis?

400

Skull

What is Crani/o?

400

The force of your blood pushing against the walls of your arteries as your heart contracts and relaxes

What is blood pressure?

400

Twice daily (2 times a day)

What is B.I.D?
400

Prostate gland

What is the Male reproductive? 

500

Tumor or Mass

What is -oma?

500

Flesh or skin

What is Sarc/o?

500

Indicates the amount of heat produced by the activity of changing food into energy

What is temperature? 

500
At bedtime (Every night)

What is QHS?

500

Uterus 

What is Female reproductive? 

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