Suffixes, Prefixes - Medical Terminology | HSC 105.00, Exams of Medical Sciences

Download Suffixes, Prefixes - Medical Terminology | HSC 105.00 and more Exams Medical Sciences in PDF only on Docsity! Chapter 2. Suffixes Chapter 3. Prefixes **Several non-medical/physician organization websites offer excellent pictures & good information. These sites are medical information finders and may/may not be peer-reviewed. Just type in your med term into the search. Included are: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ http://www.mdchoice.com http://my.webmd.com/medical_information/condition_centers/default.htm Building Your Medical Vocabulary Page Instructor’s Notes Abrasion 35 Asymmetrical 35 Comatose 36 See the medical term “coma” in Chapter 14 Nervous System, page 497. This is the adjective to “coma”. Hypertrophy 37 Commonly used term to describe increased heart size. Infection 37 Trauma 37 Turgor 37 Poor skin turgor is commonly associated with dehydration. Afebrile 47 Versus ‘febrile’. Bifurcate 47 Commonly used to describe arterial branching such as the aorta into the femoral arteries: “at the aortic bifurcation”.