Guided Notes
Clinical Language for EHR Professionals
The medical terms, abbreviations, units and clinical concepts you'll hear every day from clinicians — so you can understand requests and build correctly.
Word parts unlock most terms
Slide 1 / 5Medical words combine prefixes, roots and suffixes: • cardi (heart), pulmon/pneum (lung), nephr/ren (kidney), hepat (liver), gastr (stomach), neur (nerve), oste (bone), derm (skin). • -itis inflammation, -ectomy removal, -scopy looking with a scope, -emia blood condition, -algia pain, -ology study of. • hyper- above/excess, hypo- below, tachy- fast, brady- slow.
Example: 'nephrolithiasis' = kidney (nephr) + stone (lith) + condition (iasis).