Vocabulary
Surgical removal of tonsils
What is tonsillectomy?
Document voluntarily signed by patient/responsible party describing the purpose, methods, benefits, and risks of diagnostic or treatment procedure.
What is Informed Consent?
mg
What is milligrams?
hyper-
What is the prefix for excessive?
stomach
What is the combining form gastr/o?
Study of the lungs
What is Pulmonology?
Written or dictated by admitting physician; details patient’s history, results of physician’s examination, initial diagnoses, and physician’s plan of treatment.
tid
What is three times a day?
-itis
What is the suffix for inflammation?
kidney
What is the combining form nephr/o?
Pertaining to within the skull
What is Cranial?
Results of all tests performed on the patient, principally from lab and medical imaging.
What are Diagnostic Reports?
disp
What is dispense?
genic-
What is the prefix for producing?
What is the combining form rhin/o?
Surgical repair of a bronchus
What is Bronchoplasty?
Report given by a specialist who studies tissue biopsied from a patient.
What is a Pathologist's Report?
po
What is by mouth?
pan-
What is the prefix for all?
ear
What is the combining form ot/o?
Inflammation of nerves
What is Neuritis?
Sig
What is label instruction?
-algia
What is the suffix for pain?
cancer
What is the combining form carcin/o?