Medical Transcription and Healthcare Experience Sharing

1. Amyl/o means starch-amylase is the enzyme digests starch. 2. Bil/i means bile or gall-bilary is pertaining to bile. Biliary tract consists of liver and gallbladder and the hepatic duct, cystic duct, and the common bile duct that secrete and empty the bile into the duodenum. 3. Bilirubin/o means bilirubin or bile pigment-hyperbilirubinemia is the excessive secretion of bilirubin in the blood. 4. Chol/e means gall or bile-cholelithiasis is the abnormal condition of stone in the bile. 5. Gluc/o means sugar or glucose-glucolysis the process of converting the stored glucose into energy. 6. Glycogen/o means glycogen or animal-glycogenolysis is the breaking down of glycogen. 7. Lith/o means stone-cholecystolithiasis is the abnormal condition of stone in the gallbladder. 8. Lip/o means fat-lipoma is the benign neoplasm of fat tissue consists of mature fat cells. 9. Sial/o means saliva or salivary-sialolith is the stone in the salivary glands. 10. Steat/o means fat-steato...

Your body speaks a language, and there are things you need to know about it. Your gut communicates with you in a way that you need to learn! Clinics can present a vocabulary that is as ancient and impenetrable as an old script. Words such as ‘laparoscopy' or ‘stomatitis' may be a barrier and remove you from your own body. A medical diagnosis is not a conversation for many and it's more like a riddle in a foreign language. I am a medical etymologist and as such view these words differently. They do not aim to conceal, they're meant to be surgical. The majority of medical terms are combinations of Greek/Latin components and function as a coordinate system. This is the "secret code" that we are able to decipher, thus connecting patient and practitioner. Once you've deciphered the meaning of the terms, the digestive system becomes a map of your own health and wellbeing and a wall of jargon is no longer a wall of jargon. 1. The Mouth is More Than Just an Ope...