What do all these letters mean?
Getting to the root of it.
Medical Speak
What's wrong with me?
Pre and Post Med Words
500
CHF
What is Congestive Heart Failure
500
Carcin(o)
What is related to or causing cancer
500
Foley
What is a catheter inserted into the bladder to help with urinary drainage?
500
This is know as intermittent chest pain normally caused by insufficient blood flow to the heart
What is Angina?
500
Repair through surgery
What is -plasty?
600
LFT
What is Liver Function Test?
600
Derma
What is to do with the skin?
600
MVA
What is a motor vehicle accident?
600
This a clot caused by blood, fat, air or other types of fluid, gas or foreign material.
What is embolism?
600
a discharge or a flow
What is -rrhea?
700
EKG or ECG
What is Electrocardiogram, a device that records heart beats
700
Digit
What is a finger or a toe?
700
Nitro
What is nitroglycerin?
700
This a blood clot that forms inside a blood vessel restricting blood flow
What is Thrombosis
700
This is relating to nutrition
What is -trophic?
800
ADR
What is Adverse Drug Reaction
800
Cyto
What is pertaining to a cell or cells?
800
Thready
What is shallow and weak, particularly in reference to a person's pulse?
800
This is a way of administration of medication or fluids by vein.
What is intravenous?
800
Outside of
What is -Ecto- or Exo-?
900
ALOC
What is Acute Loss of Consciousness
900
Encephal(o)
What is to do with the brain?
900
GCS
What is Glascow Coma Scale, level of consciousness?
900
This is an imbalance in the body's response to infection that injures the body's tissues and organs
What is sepsis?
900
Indicates pain or a painful condition
What is -algia?