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This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary .
Medical coding – The practice of assigning statistical codes to medical statements, such as those made during a hospital stay. Closely related to medical billing . Medical College Admission Test – (MCAT), is a computer-based standardized examination for prospective medical students in the United States , Australia , [ 256 ] Canada , and ...
A. Abrasion collar; Absolute risk; Acholia; Active placebo; Acute (medicine) Acute abdomen; Acute pericarditis; Purulent pericarditis; Adherence (medicine) Adhesion (medicine)
International scientific vocabulary – Scientific and specialized words in current use in several modern languages List of deprecated terms for diseases Medical slang – acronyms and informal terminology used to describe patients, other healthcare personnel and medical concepts Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
List of medical symptoms. Medical symptoms refer to the manifestations or indications of a disease or condition, perceived and complained about by the patient. [1] [2] Patients observe these symptoms and seek medical advice from healthcare professionals.
-ectomy : surgical removal (see List of -ectomies). The term 'resection' is also used, especially when referring to a tumor.-opsy : looking at-oscopy : viewing of, normally with a scope-ostomy or -stomy : surgically creating a hole (a new "mouth" or "stoma", from the Greek στόμα (stóma), meaning "body", see List of -ostomies)
A page from Robert James's A Medicinal Dictionary; London, 1743-45 An illustration from Appleton's Medical Dictionary; edited by S. E. Jelliffe (1916). The earliest known glossaries of medical terms were discovered on Egyptian papyrus authored around 1600 B.C. [1] Other precursors to modern medical dictionaries include lists of terms compiled from the Hippocratic Corpus in the first century AD.
Sortable table Abbreviation Meaning Nφ: Neutrophil: Na: sodium (from Latin natrium) : NA: negative appendectomy NAAT: Nucleic Acid Amplification Test: NABS: normoactive bowel sounds