Medical Transcription and Healthcare Experience Sharing

We now see some shorter suffixes used in medical language, which will be useful in medical transcription. 1. -er means one who- radiographer-person who record x-rays 2. -ia means condition leukemia-condition of increased WBC of cancerous nature pneumonia-disease condition of lungs 3. -ist means one who specializes in cardiologist-one who specializes in heart diseases neurologist-one who specializes in nerve diseases 4. -ole means little, small arteriole-small or little arteries 5. -ule means little, small venule-small or little vein 6. -um, -ium means structure, tissue, thing pericardium-strucutre surrounding the heart 7. -y means condition or process cardiomyopathy-disease condition of heart Now we see some adjective suffixes used in medical language useful for medical transcription. 1. -ac, -iac means pertaining to cardiac-pertaining to heart 2. -al means pertaining to peritoneal-pertaining to pericardium p...

1. –pathy means disease condition- cardiomyopathy-disease condition of the heart muscles 2. –penia means deficiency erythropenia-deficiency or RBC 3. –phobia means fear acrophobia-fear of heights agoraphobia- fear of crowds and market place 4. –plasia means development, formation, growth achondroplasia-malformation of cartilage of bones 5. –plasty means surgical repair angioplasty-surgical repair in the blood vessels 6. –ptosis means drooping, sagging blepharoptosis-sagging or falling of the eyelids 7. scleosis means hardening arteriosclerosis-hardening of blood vessels or arteries 8. –scope means instrument for visual examination laparascope-instrument for viewing abdomen 9. –scopy means process of visual examination laparoscrope-process of visual examination of the abdomen 10. –stasis means stopping, controlling metastasis-spreading beyond control 11. –stomy means opening to form a mouth tracheost...

Suffix or word ending is of two types i.e. NOUN SUFFIXES and ADJECTIVE SUFFIXES. Now we will the list of each one by one. These suffixes are used most common in medical transcription. Now we will see NOUN SUFFIXES. 1. -algia means pain- arthralgia-pain in the joints neuralgia-pain the nerves otalgia-pain in the ear myalgia-pain in the muscle 2. -cele means hernia rectocele-hernia in the rectum (for female) cystocele-hernia in the bladder 3. -centesis means surgical puncture to remove fluid thoracocentesis-puncture the chest to remove fluid amniocentesis-puncture of the abdomen (also known as paracentesis) 4. -coccus means berry-shaped streptococcus-a bacteria looked like twisted chain staphylococci-cluster shaped bacteria 5. -dynia means pain pleurodynia-pain of chest 6. -ectomy means excision, removal, resection laryngectomy-removal of voice box mastectomy-removal of breast 7. -emia means blood condition anemia-con...