Medical Terminology

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Rapid heart (rate)

What is tachycardia

200

What is excessive (many) thirst

What is polydipsia

300

Within the muscle

What is intramuscular

400

Double vision

What is diplopia 

500

Behind the nose

What is postnasal/retronasal

Prefix/Suffix

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-plasty

What is a suffix meaning: repair

200

-tomy

What is a suffix meaning: incision

300

-stomy

What is a suffix meaning: opening

400

Instrument for viewing (examining) inside (-scope)

Endoscope

500

Pertaining to (-ac) against living organisms

Antibiotic

In the beginning...

100

Hypo-

-plasty

below, decreased

repair

200

Dys-

Prefix meaning: bad

300

Inter-

Prefix meaning: between

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Trans-

Prefix meaning: Across

500

Poly-

Prefix meaning: Many

Wait. I know this one!

100

Medical term that means situated or occurring outside of the eye 

What is extraocular?

200

Calli had two units of blood transfused into or within her veins, best described as

What is intravenously?

300

Medical term that means examining by using the hands to feel texture and size.

What is palpation?

400

Medical term that means examining by listening for sounds within the body. 

What is auscultation?

500

Procedural term related to measuring the head.

What is cephalometry?

Say Again?

100

COPD

What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?

200

URI

What is upper respiratory infection?

300

CXR

What is chest x-ray?

400

RTW

What is return to work?

500

CHF

What is congestive heart failure?