Prescription Notes

Drugs are substances that alters a person’s mental or physical state. It is also a substance or mixture of substances intended to cure, diagnose, treat or prevent disease or certain conditions in human or animals.

Suffixes meaning and Terminology

Disease Conditions

-algia: Condition of pain, Arthralgia

-emia: Blood condition, Leukemia

-itis: Inflammation, Bronchitis

-oma: Tumour, mass Myoma

-megaly: Enlargement, Cardiomegaly

-osis: abnormal condition, Nephrosis

-pathy: Disease condition, Nephropathy

-rrhea: Flow, discharge, Diarrhea

-rrhage: Bursting forth blood Hemorrhage

-sclerosis: Hardening, Arteriosclerosis

-uria: Condition of Urine, Hematuria

Procedure

- centesis: Surgical puncture to remove fluid e.g. Thoracentesis

- ectomy: Removal, resection, excision e.g. Tonsillectomy

- gram: record e.g. Myleogram

- graphy: Process of recording e.g. Mammography

- lysis: Separation, breakdown e.g. Dialysis

- plasty: Surgical repair/correction e.g. Rhinoplasty

- scopy: Process of visual examination e.g. Laryngoscopy

- stomy: Opening e.g. Colostomy

- therapy: Treatment e.g. Radiotherapy

- tomy: Incision, to cut into e.g. Craniotomy

Prefixes Meaning Terminology

a, an: No, not, without Apnea

Ab: Away from Abnormal

Ad: Toward, near Adrenal glands

Ante: Before, forward Antepartum

Anti: Against Antibody

Brady: Slow Bradycardia

Dys: Bad, Painful, Difficult Dyspnea

Ec: Out, Outside Ectopic

Hyper: Excessive, too much, Hyperthyroidism

Hypo: Deficient, too little, below Hypoglycemia

Tachy: Fast Tachycardia