Medical Terminology
Health Care Records
Today’s Lecture
History
Ancient pharmacy
Pharmacopeias(making drugs)
Simple(unmixed, only one component) and/or compound(mixed together, mineral and herb) drugs
Recipes(don’t have measurements)
NB. Pharmac/o-drug, medicine, Gr. Pharmakon-drug, medicine, poison
Collecting and making medications
Medication trade
Storage
Making
Harder it is to get the more potent, went to physician to get medicines no pharmacies.
Kept drugs in boxes. Used mortar and pestle
Administering meidication
p.o. (food, drink)
PV(pessary)per vagina
PR(clysters)per rectum
Topical (ointments)
Fumigation(woman the would sit on a seat and they would heat a bowl under her)
NB-Clysis(washing)
Physician’s error?
Have patient repeat to you what they need to do.
Route
Demerol IM q3h p.r.n. severe pain IM(intramuscular)
IM-intramuscular
ID indradermal
IV intravenous
SC, SQ, Sub-Q-subcutaneous
SL -
PV
PR
P.o.
Last one is intradermal
First is subcutaneous
Intramuscular middle one
Roman and Arabic numbers
Ii tab means 2
Vi six
Ix nine
I or I =1
V or v=5
X or x =10
L = 50
C=100
D=500
M=1000
Subtraction rule
Iv=4 ix=9 xl=40 xc=90 cd=400 cm=900
949=dccccxxxxviiii=cmxlix
N.B. Al-jabr w’al muqabalah- algebra
Common prescription abbreviations
Statim-immediately
Ter in die-three time /day
Quaque hora-every hour
Pro re nata-as needed
Noctis(nocte)-at night
Ante meridiem -(morning)
Post cibum- after you eat
Non (nihil)per os -not per mouth
Quarter in die –four times a day
Right eye OD oculus dexter
Left eye OS oculus sinister
Left ear AS auris sinistra
Right ear AD auris dexter
Sinister and Augery
Augery flight of birds and there direction would tell you if the gods approve or disprove left is good right is bad or could listen to the call of the bird
Left sinister is not always bad.
Test 1. Info on Blackboard
Bring your student id
Don’t be late
Leave a seat between you and your neighbor
Be sure to fill in your name, eid, and the test form before you begin taking the test
Types of questions
Spelling
Which term is spelled correctly?
B) osteoarthritis
Definition of word components
The prefix in periarticular means:
Around
Definition of word components
All of the following mean pertaining to except
-ule
Categories of suffixes and prefixes
Which of the following medical terms is operative ssurgical
Gastropexy
Construction
The term whose literal definition is removal of half the stomach:
Hemigastroectomy
Pronunciation
Cephalic is pronounced
Se-fal’ik
Plural and singular endings
Plural of macula is
Maculae
Analysis
The term cardiopulmonary contains ___combining forms/roots
2
General and etymological information
Most of the terms related to diagnosis and surgery have ___ origin
Greek
Medical records:abbreviations
r/o
rule out
a with line over it
ante and before
common medical record terms
increase in the severity of a disease with aggravations of symptoms
exacerbation
info about progress note, H&P and prescription
which of the following is part of the signa
how frequently the patient should take the mediciation
Viagra: tab 1 q2h p.o. should read:
Take one tablet by mouth every two hours
Study the medical records in the practice exercises at the end of the chapter
Please carefully read the information for test 1 on blackboard and consult your syllabus before e-mailing me with a question about the test.
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