Prefix
Micro
What is small?
Treats pain
What is analgesics?
oculo indicates it pertains to?
What is the eye?
A&Ox3
What is alert and oriented x 3? (person,place, and time)
CHF
What is congestive heart failure?
Erythro
What is red?
Treats bacterial infections
What is antibiotics?
Hem(o)/Hemat(o) pertains to?
What is blood?
ADLs
What is activities of daily living?
CVA
What is a cerebrovascular accident/stroke?
Neo
What is new?
Treats hypertension
What are antihypertensives?
Pulm(o)
What is the lung?
C&S
What is culture and sensitivity?
MRSA
What is Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?
Oligo
What is small/scant?
Treats fever
What are antipyretics?
Hepat(o) pertains to?
What is the liver?
DM
What is diabetes mellitus?
NVD
What is nausea/vomiting/diarrhea?
Dys
What is bad/painful?
What is diuretics?
Myel(o) pertains to?
What is bone marrow or spinal cord?
NKA
What is no known allergies?
URI
What is upper respiratory infection?