Key Terms
A letter or group of letters that symbolizes or is an abbreviated version of a medical word.
Medical Abbreviation
Mono
One
Pneum
Lung
Plegia
Paralyis
BP
Blood Pressure
A letter or group of letters placed at the beginning of a medical word that modifies or changes the meaning.
Medical Prefix
Intra
Inside,Within
Osteo
Bone
Crine
Secrete
Ad lib
As desired
The central part of a medical word.
Medical Root
A
Not, Without
Bronch
Bronchial Tube
litho
stone
Hs
Bedtime
A letter or group of letters placed at the end of a medical word that modifies or changes the meaning.
Medical Suffix
Hemi
Half
phlem
vein
abnormal condition
osis
What does TIA MEAN?
Transient Ischemic Attack
What is a good way to remember a Prefix that Ms. Harriman told us.
Brady- Tom Brady is slow
post
after or behind
derma
skin
stomy
surgical opening
prn
As needed