enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_roots...

    Second, medical roots generally go together according to language, i.e., Greek prefixes occur with Greek suffixes and Latin prefixes with Latin suffixes. Although international scientific vocabulary is not stringent about segregating combining forms of different languages, it is advisable when coining new words not to mix different lingual roots.

  3. Abbrev. [1]Meaning [1] Latin (or Neo-Latin) origin [1]; a.c. before meals: ante cibum a.d., ad, AD right ear auris dextra a.m., am, AM morning: ante meridiem: nocte ...

  4. List of medical abbreviations: B - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical...

    Capillary blood glucose (British medical colloquialism originating from Boehringer Mannheim, a manufacturer of early glucose meters, today a part of Boehringer Ingelheim.) BMBx: Bone marrow biopsy: BMC: bone mineral content: BMD: bone mineral density (also termed bone mass measurement) BMI: body mass index: BMP: basic metabolic panel: BMR ...

  5. List of Greek and Latin roots in English/A–G - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_and_Latin...

    The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from A to G. See also the lists from H to O and from P to Z . Some of those used in medicine and medical technology are not listed here but instead in the entry for List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes .

  6. List of medical abbreviations - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_abbreviations

    Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").

  7. List of abbreviations for diseases and disorders - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_abbreviations_for...

    List of medical abbreviations: Overview; List of medical abbreviations: Latin abbreviations; List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel; List of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions; List of optometric abbreviations

  8. Medical terminology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_terminology

    Medical terminology often uses words created using prefixes and suffixes in Latin and Ancient Greek. In medicine, their meanings, and their etymology, are informed by the language of origin. Prefixes and suffixes, primarily in Greek—but also in Latin, have a droppable -o-. Medical roots generally go together according to language: Greek ...

  9. Category:Medical terminology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Medical_terminology

    Pages in category "Medical terminology" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 377 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .