Medical Transcription and Healthcare Experience Sharing

Today we will see about important suffixes and prefixes that are used in medical transcription field commonly on a daily basis. Every transcriptionist must memorize these words with its meanings. Next two posts will follow  this topic. I am going to add more videos hereafter for each topic. Many new changes will happen soon in our blog. We need your support as usual. Now we will see important suffixes and prefixes used in medical transcription one by one now. 1. -tomy means cutting or incision 2. -graphy means process of writing or recording 3. -oligo means scany or deficient 4. -logy means study of 5. super- means above or excessive 6. -uria means pertaining to urine 7. inter- means between 8. -pathy means disease 9. post- means after 10. -plasia means development or growth 11. -algia means painful condition 12. -osis means an abnormal condition 13. -rrhea means discharge 14. meno- means pertaining to menses 15. crypto- ...

In this post, we will see about important suffixes and prefixes that are used in medical transcription. Even there are thousands of prefixes and suffixes, all medical transcriptionists should memorize these words. They are used often in all live files by physicians everyday. Please understand meaning of each word. Now we will about one by one now. 1. -tomy means cutting or incision 2.  -graphy means process of writing or process of recording 3.  oligo- means scanty or deficient 4.  super- means above or excessive 5.  inter- means between 6. -uria means pertaining to write 7. -pathy means disease 8.  post- means after 9.  -plasia means development or formation 10. -algia means denoting a painful condition 11. -osis means a condition, usually an abnormal condition 12. -rrhea means pertaining to flow or discharge 13. meno- means pertaining to menses 14. crypto- means hidden or concealed 15. myco- me...