Turrentine, Emily - 6th period - Unit 3

Bx

Biopsy

CA

Cancer

cm

Centimeter

Hx

History

I&D

Incision And Drainage

LLE

Left Lower Extremity

LUE

Left Upper Extremity

NKA

No Known Allergies

NS

Non-smoker

OTC

Over-The-Counter

PCP

Primary Care Physician

PRN or p.r.n.

As Needed

Pt or pt

Patient

RLE

Right Lower Extremity

RUE

Right Upper Extremity

SLE

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

sq/subcu/subq

Subcutaneous

y/o

years old

a- or an-

Not, Without

Auto-

Self

e-, ex-

out, away from

epi-

on, over, upon

hyper-

above, high, excessive

hypo-

below, low, deficient

in-

in, into, not

intra-

within, into

inter-

between

para-

near, beside, alongside, beyond, abnormal

per-

through

sub-

under, below, beneath

aden/o

gland

adip/o

fat, fatty tissue

albin/o

white

aut/o

self, same

bi/o

life

blephar/o

eyelid

carcin/o

cancer

caus/o

burn, burning, heat

cauter/o

hear, burn

chem/o

chemical, drug

chrom/o

color

cis/o

to cut

cry/o

cold or freezing

crypt/o

hidden

cutane/o

skin

cyan/o

blue

cyt/o

cell

derm/a, derm/o, dermat/o

skin

ecchysm/o

blood in the tissue

erythem/o, erythemat/o

redness

erythr/o

red

heter/o

different, other

hidr/o

sweat

hist/o

tissue

hom/o

same, alike

ichthy/o

dry, scaly

immun/o

immune, protection

integument/o

covering

jaund/o

yellow

kerat/o

horny tissue, hard, or cornea of the eye

leuk/o

white

lip/o

fat or lipid

melan/o

black

myc/o

fungus

necr/o

death

onych/o

fingernail, toenail

papill/o

nipple-like

pil/o

hair, hair follicle

prurit/o, psor/o

itching

py/o

pus

rhytid/o

wrinkle

scler/o

hardening

seb/o

sebum (oil, grease, fat)

squam/o

scale, or scale like

steat/o

fat, sebum

therm/o

hot, heat

trich/o

hair

ungu/o

nail

xanth/o

yellow, yellowish

xen/o

foreign or strange

xer/o

dry or dryness

-al, -ary, -ic, -ous, -tic

pertaining to

-cyte

cell

-derma, -dermis

skin

-ectomy

surgical removal, excision

-ema

condition

-esis

action, condition, state of

-esthesia

feeling, sensation

-genesis

formation

-iasis

abnormal condition

-ion

process, state, condition

-ism

process, condition

-itis

inflammation

-logy

study of

-oma

mass, tumer

-opsy

view of, viewing

-ose

full of, pertaining to, sugar

-osis

process, abnormal condition

-phagia

eating, swallowing

-plasty

surgical repair