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- fileName "Medical language"
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- Which languages are medical words derived from?
- Latin, Greek, French and Dutch
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What are the parts of a medical word?
Prefix, combining form and suffix.
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What does CPR mean?
Computerized Patient Record.
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What is pneumonitis?
Inflammation or infection of the lung.
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What does Hipa stand for and do?
- Health
- Insurance
- Portability
- Accountability
- 1996 all health care settings must provide patients with a statement verifying that their medical record information is secure and is released only to authorizes health care providers,insurance companies or health care monitoring organizations.
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What are soap notes?
- Standard headings in admissions and discharge documents
- CC Chief Complaint
- Subjective
- ..... On set
- ..... Duration
- .....character
- .....radiation
- .....frequency
- .....symptoms
- Objective..... Physical findings
- Accessment..... Potential of what caused it.
- Procedures..... Plan of care.
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What is the foundation of a medical word?
Combining form.
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What is -graphy?
Process of recording
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What is -post?
Before or in front of
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What is - poly?
Many or much
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What is CC?
Chief Complaint
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What is ROS?
Review of systems
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What is -path?
Disease or suffering
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What is peritonsillar?
Around the tonsil.
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What are the parts of a combining form?
Root. Slash. Vowel. Hyphen.
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What part gives a medical word its meaning?
Combining form
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What is the plural form of diverticulum?
- Diverticula
- When a Latin singular noun ends in - um, form the plural by changing -um to -a.
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What does pneumon/o mean?
Lungs
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What is the plural of apex?
- Apices
- When a Latin singular ends in -ex, form the plural by changing -ex to - ices.
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What does -um change to in plural form?
-a
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What is -iatry?
Medical treatment
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What is -itian?
A skilled profession.
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What is -hyper?
Below average
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What is -hypo?
Above average
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What skills involve relaying the medical language?
- Reading
- Listening
- Thinking analyzing understanding
- Writing typing spelling
- Speaking and pronouncing
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Psychiatry
- Psych is the mind
- -iatry is medical treatment.
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Pneumonia
Infection and fluid in the lungs.
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Mammography
Breast
-graphy... Process of recording.
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Hemiplegia
- Hemi- meaning one half.
- Paralysis of one side of the body.
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Neurology
- Neuro nerves
- -ology study of.
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Pericardial
Around the heart
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