Re: Medical Terminology defined

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psychoprint wrote:

> I needed him because not only did I not understand many of the terms,

> many were not in any dictionary I could find on line medical or

> otherwise. Terms like: bridging syndesmophytic spur, hypertrophic

> osteophyte, DISH, and listhesis.

>

Doug,

Medicine net.com will explain most of these when you type in the words

or medical terminology. i found dish there,Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal

Hyperostosis - Source: MedicineNet and they have extensive explanations

of it. You have to break down most of the words with prefixes and

suffixes and I remember many index cards memorizing these terms.(In

x-ray, nursing, and ward clerk training I took). So, go to this site

and you will find most of your answers.

it is like putting a puzzle together. hyper means above, osteo, bone

and so on and so on. Hope that helps. Sometimes, it can sound like our

bodies are going to explode with some of the terms and they mean just

arthritis or degenerative disc disease. Bennie