Posted By: darlene on 2009-01-24 In Reply to:situs solitus - nm
Subject: some info on both terms for archives
Situs describes the position of the cardiac atria and viscera.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Situs solitus is the normal position,
situs inversus is the mirror image of situs solitus (see Image 1).
Cardiac situs is determined by the atrial location. In situs inversus
The morphologic right atrium is on the left, and the morphologic left atrium is on the right.
The normal pulmonary anatomy is also reversed so that the left lung has 3 lobes and the right lung has 2 lobes. In addition, the liver and gallbladder are located on the left, whereas the spleen and stomach are located on the right. The remaining internal structures are also a mirror image of the normal.
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this one might help for terms Subject: this one might help for terms
https://www.deltadentalva.com/dds/OralHealthResourceCenter.aspx?DView=CommunityServiceGlossary
It's one of those terms that has been used Subject: It's one of those terms that has been used
so long that it is not really considered slang anymore, I guess. I've never seen it expanded, even in A/P section.
your terms Subject: your terms
Bookwalter, Steffee and Veress are correct. Taken from Vera Pyle's Current Medical Terminology
HIV file - terms used Subject: HIV file - terms used
I'm working on a file about an HIV patient who also has a MAC infection. Under the "IMPRESSION", the dictation sounds like. Situation further complicated by disseminated MAC infection which led to s/l INCESNAL obstruction due to severe s/l MACROLIDED lymphadenitis. Improving s/l TEKEXIA.
Any help anyone could give me with any of those terms would be appreciated.
If you keep a notebook with alphabetical tabs, you could make yourself a heading under SIGN, and you could also enter the word under all letters it might be pronounced as. That's what I used to do. Saved a lot of time in the long run, especially when you don't have enough information about the patient's problem to know what system or body part they are checking.
s/l: Dermatified (or dromatified) broma right shin. She uses this phrase in a previous sentence:
On his right shin he has superficial change that appears like a dermatified broma; however, it is not as nodular beneath the shin, but it is definitely excoriated or irritated on the surface.
I just cannot find any info on these two - sorry this is so long. I am covering for someone and would prefer not to send to the editor!! TIA
A1-A2
A2
A-N
A-V
P wave
PA
P-R interval and segment
Q wave
QRS complex
QT duration
QTc
ST segment
T wave
U wave
Note combinations such as ST-T waves or ST-T-wave changes or non-Q-wave myocardial infarction.
ventilator terms Subject: ventilator terms
I have been assigned some work to help the office "catch up" and this is not my normal assignment. Can someone help me with ventilator terminology?? I may be far off, but here is what I think I am hearing.
__SIV m---__ rate set at 16 and tolerating the 550 and FI to 40 percent and a peak of 10.___longest set of peak___ratio of 182.Her morning blood gas shows a pH of 7.48, a PC2 of 36 and a PAO2 of 73.
Thanks for any help or direction for a site with this info.
Here is the question - how do you type the word "stat" meaning immediately? Its a latin derivitive like n.p.o. , p.r.n. etc, and those are typed in lower case with periods. So would it be "stat." I have also seen it typed STAT with no period. I can't find it anywhere to back up my choice. Any ideas??? Or where to look?? Sue
I can tell by the context that the doctor had taken the patient off a medication. "She has done much worse since ________ the Wellbutrin." It does not sound like "stopping" or "discontinuing." Any suggestions?
ophth terms Subject: ophth terms
first may be aphakic or aphake, which is slang for person with lens removed after cataract extraction.
EMG site & some terms Subject: EMG site & some terms
Can try here:
http://www.teleemg.com/new/tblcnt.htm
Some EMG/NCV terms I've come across:
Distal latency
Amplitude
Conduction velocity
Recruitment
Peak latency
Sensory study
Motor study
Polyphasic
Fibrillation potential
Insertional activities
Those were both my first thoughts and looked high and low for them, but found nothing. Thanks anyways!
FYI - there are a lot of medical terms that Subject: FYI - there are a lot of medical terms that
Fine needle aspiration of submental mass. Several passes made, placed on slides, preserved with alcohol. Several passes made, placed on slides and preserved with sicomono fluid.
Sometimes I think the surgical Fellows coming in try to use terms just to stump people!!
The pathology shows a primary cutaneous malignant melanoma with a breadth lode depth of 0.6 millimeters.
Does this make sense or am I hearing it totally wrong!? I do a lot of melanoma reports but have never had the doctor use this term. Then again -- she says in a different part of the report "mid thoracic back lesion".
This is a dictator new on staff--deep Southern accent, fast talker. Sent this guy to QA the first time I got him, but no response yet. He's surgically treating burns.
#1 Surgical preparation was carried out using a #10 blade as well as a S/L Norson/Norrison.
#2 The area of cadaver skin was covered with S/L Bridobel, Acticoat and sterile dressing.
I've looked in all my Stedman references, Vera Pyle, as well as Google. Nothing has come up. Hope you might have these terms written in somewhere. If you know your reference source, please state. Thanks.
http://www.brooksidepress.org/Products/Military_OBGYN/Textbook/Pap/PapSmearInterpretation.htm
I'm not an OB MT! Question re: menses terms... Subject: I'm not an OB MT! Question re: menses terms...
I THINK Doc says 'her menses is 12 x 28 x 287' Do those values look correct? I can't find what they may mean on Google and I have no OB books because I don't normally do OB! Thanks.
Are you hearing 2 terms in there or is that just for a single Subject: Are you hearing 2 terms in there or is that just for a single
Okay, this is always my last recourse. Doing a gallbladder, common bile duct operating report. The doctor keeps saying what sounds like "ansystematous, encystatous" describing the gallbladder; I've search everyone under a lot of things and can find nothing. Also, in the same report he describes coming out of the bile duct he describes what sounds like "perineal bile"; there is no such and nothing that sounds similar. Any suggestions here?
Gallbladder terms I cannot make out Subject: Gallbladder terms I cannot make out
I am having the same trouble, what did you come up with on this?