Combining Forms
Drug highlights
Abbreviations
Diagnostic Test
Instruments
100
Presby/o
What is old
100
Act by interfering with bacterial cell wall synthesis among newly formed bacterial cells
What are penicillins?
100
AC
What is air conduction?
100
Method of testing pure tones by providing calibrated tones to a person via earphones, allowing that person to increase the sound level until it can just be heard
What is pure tone audiometry?
100
Medical instrument used to measure hearing
What is an audiometer?
200
Myring/o
What is eardrum, tympanic membrane
200
Relieves pain without causing loss of consciousness
What is analgesic?
200
decibel
What is dB or Db
200
Recording eye movement in response to specific stimuli.
What is What is Electronystagmography?
200
Medical instrument used to examine the eardrum
What is a Myringoscope?
300
Laryng/o
What is larynx, voice-box
300
Works by inhibiting protein synthesis in susceptible bacteria. These drugs can be used for patients who are allergic to penicillin.
What is Erythromycin?
300
BC
What is bone conduction?
300
Visual examination of the external auditory canal and the tympanic membrane via an otoscope?
What is otoscopy?
300
Medical instrument used to examine the ear.
What is an otoscope?
400
land snail
What is cochle/o
400
Primarily bacteriostatic and active against a wide range of gram-negative and gram-positive microorganisms, they inhibit protein synthesis in the bacterial cell.
What is Tetracycline?
400
HD
What is hearing distance?
400
Uses a tuning fork to compare bone conduction (BC) hearing with air conduction (AC)
What is Rinne test?
400
Medical instrument that conveys sound to the auditory nerve through teeth or bone
What is an audiphone?
500
Neur/o
What is nerve
500
These include anticholinergics, antihistamines, and antidopamines.
What drugs used to treat vertigo?
500
Hz
What is cycles/second?
500
Response to auditory stimuli (sound) that can be measured independently of the patient’s subjective response. Use of an electroencephalograph
What is Auditory-evoked response?
500
Instrument used medically in a hearing test, which, when struck at the forked end, vibrates and thus can be heard and felt
What is a tuning fork?