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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.
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").
This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes). This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those).
In the field of neurology, dyscopia is used to describe a type of developmental coordination disorder related to dyslexia and dysgraphia (inability to read or write). Specifically, it is taken to mean difficulty with coping. Sometimes a similar word, "acopia", is mistaken to mean the same, [3] although this is not a medical term and has no ...
Desbuquois syndrome. Desmin-related myofibrillar myopathy. Desmoid disease. Desmoid tumor. Desmoplastic small round cell tumor. Developmental coordination disorder. Developmental delay epilepsy neonatal diabetes (DEND syndrome) Developmental delay hypotonia extremities hypertrophy. Developmental dyslexia.
In medicine, both ancient and modern, a dyscrasia is any of various disorders. The word has ancient Greek roots meaning "bad mixture". [1] The concept of dyscrasia was developed by the Greek physician Galen (129–216 AD), who elaborated a model of health and disease as a structure of elements, qualities, humors, organs, and temperaments (based on earlier humorism).
Medical terminology is a language used to precisely describe the human body including all its components, processes, conditions affecting it, and procedures performed upon it. Medical terminology is used in the field of medicine . Medical terminology has quite regular morphology, the same prefixes and suffixes are used to add meanings to ...
Dysphagia. Dysphagia is difficulty in swallowing. [ 1][ 2] Although classified under "symptoms and signs" in ICD-10, [ 3] in some contexts it is classified as a condition in its own right. [ 4][ 5][ 6] It may be a sensation that suggests difficulty in the passage of solids or liquids from the mouth to the stomach, [ 7] a lack of pharyngeal ...