Medical Terminology Simplified

MEDICAL RECORD ACTIVITY 8-2

BILATERAL VASECTOMY

Terminology

Terms listed in the table below come from the medical report Bilateral Vasectomy that follows. Use a medical
dictionary such as Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, the appendices of this book, or other resources to define
each term. Then practice reading the pronunciations aloud for each term.

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Term Definition

bilateral

bī-LĂT-ĕr-ăl

cauterized

KAW-tĕr-īzd

Darvocet-N

DĂHR-vō-sĕt

hemostat

HĒ-mō-stăt

semen

SĒ-mĕn

supine

sū-PĪN

vasectomy

văs-ĔK-tō-mē

Xylocaine

ZĪ-lō-kān

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