Exercise 27 Medical Terminology Abstracting: IP Male 333061 Authentic Patient Cases Example completed medical terminology word breakdown and definition Patient: ER Female
MR: 1008018 Medical Term
Breakdown into Root Word, Prefix & Suffix
photophobia phot/o-, phob, -ia Note the location of the term in the record and provide a statement that demonstrates the meaning of the medical term:
HPI: Subjective: The patient denies having a phobia pertaining to light.
Instructions: Access the VLab Authentic Patient Cases. In this exercise, you will break each term into its word parts (e.g. root word, prefix, suffix), and then provide a brief explanation of the term. An example is included below in Fig. 3.xx, to help you get started. **Download this authentic patient case to an adobe acrobat reader file so that you can search for the term(s) in the patient record. Exercise 27 Case Type: IP Male MR: 333061 Medical Term Breakdown into Root Word, Prefix & Suffix
Note the location of the term in the record and provide a statement that demonstrates the meaning of the medical term:
Medical Term
Breakdown into Root Word, Prefix & Suffix
Note the location of the term in the record and provide a statement that demonstrates the meaning of the medical term:
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