Rad 104 hospital practice and care of patients 2 terminology p2 - 2016

1. Hospital Practice
&
Care of Patient
RAD 104
Part 2

2. List of medical roots, suffixes and
prefixes
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical
_roots,_suffixes_and_prefixes

3. • galact(o)- / galactose
/ lacto
What is the Meaning ?

4. What is the
connection ?
• galact(o)- / galactose
/ lacto
What is the Meaning ?

5. Root words
• angi/o - vessel
• cardi/o – heart

6. Common Medical Root Words
• cephal/o – head
• crani/o - skull

7. • psych/o -mind
• Cerebr/o Brain

8. • Enter/o - intestines
Gastr/o - stomach

9. • col/o - colon
cyst/o –
sac containing fluid
urinary bladder

10. • splen/o – spleen
• nephr/o, ren/o – kidney

11. • Hem/o – blood
Hemat/o
• Hepat/o - liver

12. • My/o – muscle
• Neur/o – nerve

13. • Oste/o - bone
• Arthr/o - Joint

14. • Acr/o - extremities

15. • pneum/o
• pulmon/o, - Lung
• thorac/o - chest

16. cost/o – ribs
• derm/o, dermat/o,
cutane – skin

17. • Or/o - mouth
Glosso/linguo, - tongue

18. • ot/o – ear
rhin/o – nose

19. Colors
• cyan/o blue
• erythr/o red
• leuk/o white
• melan/o black
• xanth/o yellow

20. Common Medical Suffixes
• -ac, -al, -ic pertaining to
• -algia pain
• -ectomy surgical removal
• -itis inflammation
• -malacia softening
• -megaly enlargement
• -ology the study of
• -ologist specialist

21. Common Medical Suffixes
• -oid -like, resembling
• -osis - abnormal condition
• -otomy - cut into
• -pathy - disease
• -scope - instrument to visually
examine
• -oma -tumor

22. Common Medical Prefixes
• a - absence of; without
• ab- away from
• ad- toward, in the direction of
• ante- before
• anti- against
• auto - self
• dys- difficult, painful
• dors- back
• endo- within
• epi- above, upon

23. Common Medical Prefixes (cont.)
• hemi- half
• hyper- over, above, increased
• hypo- below, under, decreased
• inter- between, among
• intra- within, inside
• macro- large
• mal – bad
• micro - small
• peri - surrounding, around
• poly- many

24. Common Medical Prefixes
• post - after
• sub- under, less, below
• super- above, excessive, beyond
• tachy - fast

25. Common Medical Abbreviations
• c – with
• s – without
• a – before
• p – after
• po – by mouth
• prn – as needed
• NPO – nothing by mouth

26. Common medical Abreviations
• ASAP – as soon as possible
• ABG’s - arterial blood gases
• ac – before meals
• amb – ambulate or to walk
• BP – blood pressure
• BS – blood sugar
• CBC – complete blood count
• CXR – chest x-ray

27. Common Medical Abbreviations
• DNR – do not resuscitate
• EKG – electrocardiogram
• ER - emergency room
• GI – gastrointestinal
• ICU – intensive care unit
• PACU – post-anesthesia care
unit
• PT - physical therapy
• VS – vital signs
• wnl - within normal
limits

28. Common Medical Abbreviations
• IV – intravenous (within a vein)
• Rx – prescription
• Tx – treatment
• y/o – year old
• SOB – shortness of breath
• W/C – wheel chair
• Pt - patient
• c/o – complaining of / care of

29. Activity
• Create 5 medical words using the Root words ,
prefixes and suffixes
• give the word to the other group to find the
meanings

30. exercise
• A 76 y/o__ admitted amb. into the ER. c/o
SOB and appears to be cyanotic. Tests
ordered: ABG’s, CBC, CXR, and EKG STAT. IV
started with 18 gauge butterfly infusing D5W
at 20 gtts/min. VS wnl. Pt. to be sent to ICU
per w/c ASAP. RX of Lanoxin 25 mg to be
given po c meals qd