Medical terms are divided into sections and categorized based on areas of medical knowledge. Here are some terms that you may encounter from the surgical, obstetrics, and podiatric fields.
Surgical
Surgical words are often used in the healthcare information management field. They are a staple to your everyday work, whether you're a medical transcriptionist, coder or biller. Found below are a few of them. You may notice that some of them are spelled or pronounced similarly.
• Auvray
• Bar's
• Battle
• Bergmann's
• Bevan's
• blunt and sharp
• buttonhole
• Cherney
• Chernez
• chevron
• circular
Podiatric
Podiatric medicine is the field of medicine that deals with treating different disorders relating to the ankle, foot and lower extremities. You'll encounter medical words from this field since the older generation are often treated for joint and muscle ailments associated with the lower extremities. Here are a few medical words starting with A that you may encounter while on the job:
abductor (muscle)
achillobursitis
aclasis - pathological continuity of structure
acrodermatitis enteropathica
acrokeratosis paraneoplastica - Bazex syndrome
adductor (muscle)
adiposis dolorosa - Dercum disease
aDWF - ankle Doppler wave form
AFO - ankle-foot orthosis
alligator skin - ichthyosis congenita
allylamines - e.g. Naftin (naftifine)
angle, DMMA - distal metatarsal articular, Engel, Fowler-Philip, Kite, talo-first, Taygar
ankylosis
anserinoplasty
antalgic gait
AOFS hindfoot ankle score
apophysitis
aPVR - ankle pulse volume recording
atavistic tarsometatarsal joint
athlete's foot - tinea pedis, ringworm of the feet
atavism
Obstetrical
Obstetrics words are words used in Gynecology or Obstetrics. These words pertain to the reproductive systems of women and may often denote the status of their pregnancy or birth-giving. Here are a few samples of these words:
T=term births
P=preterm births (prior to 37 weeks gestation)
A=abortions
L=living children
G gravida (number of pregnancies)
P para (number of births of viable offspring)
A or Ab abortus (abortions)
And here are some of the abbreviations that you may encounter as well. These are abbreviations starting with J and K. You might notice that you use some of them on a daily basis.
JVD - jugular venous distention
JVP - jugular venous pressure
JP - Jackson-Pratt (drainage tube)
K - Potassium
Kcal - kilocalorie
KCI - potassium chloride
Kg - kilogram
Kg-cal - kilogram calorie
Kilo - kilogram
KUB - kidney, ureter, bladder (x-ray)
K-wire - Kirschner wire
Sure! Can you provide a medical term that you would like simplified into shorter words?
Brev- is from the Latin word meaning "short". From it we get the words abbreviate, brevity, brief.
Burst therapy is one medical term for short treatment when referring to time. Brachytherapy is a term meaning "short treatment" when referring to distance.
No. Medical words are basically classical Latin and Greek.
There are compound words such as paymaster that have both a long A and a short A. Also some words with a short A plus a long A formed by a silent E, such as activate and accelerate. Other words that have both a long and short A: ashtray (short/long) playback (long/short)
Simple short A words are apple, hat, and back.
Medical Doctor is he who has adopted the profession of Medical Science for the service of mankind and society as a whole.
Some words that can be found using the letters of "medical records" are:DemocraciesCamcordersSmolderedSoldieredAdmirersDeclaredDeadlierRoadsideRealiserCarriedLeadersOrderedScarierScarcerScoldedRemodel
The A has a short a sound, as in pass and task. (the short A says ah in some words, but not in short words such as cab, am, an, and mass)
It is a short e. Other words with a short e:bellcelldellhellmellowLong e words include:heelmealrealsealteal
Examples of short words beginning with 'e' are:eareatebbeeleggegoelfelkelmemuendeoneraerreveeweeye
Vag is usually short for vaginal in medical terminology.Vag stands for vagina.
There is no noun form for the adjective 'medical'. The word medical is sometimes used as a noun, a short form for 'medical examination'. The adverb form is 'medically'.