Prefixes
Around
What is circum?
Skin
What is Derm/o?
Study of
What is -ology?
Date of birth
What is DOB?
Slow
What is brady?
White
What is leuk/o?
Nose
What is rhin/o?
specialist
What is -ian?
Discontinue
surrounding
What is peri?
Front
What is anter/o?
Vein
What is phleb/o?
Disease
What is -pathy?
Activities of daily living
What is ADL?
Internal organ
What is viscer/o?
Blue
What is cyan?
Gland
What is aden/o?
Surgical puncture to remove fluid
What is -centesis?
Advanced cardiac life support
What is ACLS?
renal pelvis
What is pyel/o?
Painful/difficult
What is dys?
Fingernail
What is onych/o?
Abnormal narrowing
What is -stenosis?
Nothing by mouth
What is NPO?
Premature ventricular contraction
What is PVC?