Medical Terminology

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• Objective finding versus subjective report. Utilization: Vital signs are signs; nausea described by patient is a symptom.

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• Sudden or short course. Utilization: Contrast with chronic in interviews.

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• Local response with redness, heat, swelling, pain, sometimes loss of function. Utilization: Explains suffix patterns such as -itis in diagnostic language.

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• Word beginning that modifies meaning. Utilization: Example: brady- suggests slow.

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• Term named after a person. Utilization: Examples appear throughout anatomy and signs.

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