The Medical Record
Healthcare Settings
Combining Forms and Suffixes
Building Medical Terms
Suffix/Prefix
100

Reports given by specialists whom physician has asked to evaluate patient.

What is consultation reports?

100

Provides care for patients who need more time to recover.

What is rehabilitation center?

100

Study of lungs

What is pulmonology?

100

overdevelopment

What is hypertrophy?

100

malacia

What is abnormal softening?

200

Written by admitting physician.

What is history and physical?

200

Provides supportive care to terminally ill patients and families.

What is hospice?

200

Cutting into the stomach

What is gastrotomy?

200

water therapy

What is hydrotherapy?

200

stenosis

What is narrowing?

300

Complete outline of a patient's entire hospital stay.

What is discharge summary?

300

Provides services for a short period of time.

What is acute care hospital?

300

Enlarged heart

What is cardiomegaly?

300

that which produces cancer

What is carcinogen?

300

rrhea

What is discharge or flow?

400

Report of treatment/therapy the patient received.

What is ancillary report?

400

Provides services not requiring overnight hospital stay.

What is ambulatory care center?

400

Abnormal softening of a kidney

What is nephromalacia?

400

Ear inflammation

What is otitis?

400

Large

What is macro?

500

Contains updated assessment, diagnoses, and further plans for care.

What is physician's progress note?

500

Provides intensive physical and occupational therapy.

What is rehabilitation center?

500

Nose discharge or flow

What is rhinorrhea?

500

gland tumor or mass

What is adenoma?

500

Around

What is peri?