Need Help with Abbreviations, Medical Terminology

[sleepymom]

Hi, I'm a Freshman nursing student and I'm working on my abbreviations and definitions for lab. You would think that they would give us things that we could find in our text book or our medical dictionary, but Noooo

Anyway, I've been looking in my texts and even googling the terms and have come up with nada, so I'm hoping some brilliant soul from allnurses can help me out.

Can you tell me what these things mean or at least point me to a website where I can find them myself?

amb

amb cass (there is supposed to be a space after c and a s s but it didn't let me type it out)

as tol

str

Also, I'm having trouble finding functional position. Seems to be a rather simple term, but I found nothing about it in my texts.

Thanks in advance!

[EricJRN, MSN, RN]

Does any one know of a web site that list prefixes and suffixes I need this for assignment on health terminalogy

ex dys- bad, painful, disordered.

also information on breaking medical terms into their part to determine their meaning

thanks

ANNE

Google 'Latin roots' or 'Latin and Greek Roots' for links to many helpful sites.

[Faeriewand, ASN, RN]

Does anyone know of a website where you can type in a medical terminology word and it will tell you what it means?

Any other websites on Medical Terminology?

That would be great! :) Thanks

[KimSwanner]

We are required to do a Medical Terminology quiz each week from a med term book, we use Taber's. And I have to say it really helps having that extra amount of knowledge. There are activities through out the books that really help you get the hang of using all the word parts. I would strongly recommend working through one of these.

[scholar]

has anyone ever seen/heard of using "et" in stead of "and"? I review charts for the law firm I work at and came across one nurse who consistently wrote "et" in place of "and."

ever seen that? I had NEVER heard of it.

Et is Latin for "And"

[rian02]

Does anybofy what NRRR, BAIAE, BPN i have already searshed over the internet but still i can't find it...can somebody help me...thanks!!!

[ALEXIS VALIENTE]

BAIAE is bronchial asthma in acure exacerbation

BPN is btonchopneumonia

I dont know NRRR

[tiffany311]

Your help is greatly appreciated, Thank you!

[jennah982]

I only know that abd is abdominal or abdomen

[Franny2332]

Sleepy Mom:

Seems this is an older question and may not be useful to you but may help someone else :-)

amb = ambulate

amb c ass = ambulate with assistance

as tol = as tolerated

str = straight - as hooking a catheter to straight drainage is the best I can do on this one. I've not encountered this one!

Franny

[amillender]

I just bought a book last night at Barnes and Noble on medical terminology, it was a $70 book I got for $8, huge book and looks like it will be very helpful once I get my pre reqs done. They may have it on sale where you are (in the bargain books section)

[smiles04]

has anyone ever seen/heard of using "et" in stead of "and"? I review charts for the law firm I work at and came across one nurse who consistently wrote "et" in place of "and."

ever seen that? I had NEVER heard of it.

Ive got a question. What do you do at the firm? Do you like it? and Are you a RN? How did you get your job? Did you have special training? Ok so theres a bunch of questions. Its just that I have really loved law and thought it would be neat to do review. Ive been in case mgmt and have some good exper. what ya think. Ps I dont punctuate on this site mostly because Im lazy by this time of day.

[nurz2be]

If I might inject a thought here on medical terminology books. I have a series of books produced by Stedman's. They are literally books by specialty like one book is Cardiology, one is ENT, one is Orthopaedic, and so on, anyways, these books are literally hundreds of pages of words associated with those Specialties. There are used ones you can find on Ebay or halfpricebooks.com for 10-20 dollars a piece. They are books generally used by medical transcriptionists, but who knows terminology better than those who have to type it and hear it everyday.

Good luck