Medical Terminology Simplified

Medical Record Activities • CHAPTER 6 265

MEDICAL RECORD ACTIVITIES

Medical reports included in the following activities reflect common, real-life clinical scenarios to show how medical
terminology is used to document patient care.

MEDICAL RECORD ACTIVITY 6-1

RECTAL BLEEDING

Terminology

Terms listed in the table below come from the medical report Rectal Bleeding 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.

Term Definition

angulation

ăng-ū-LĂ-shŭn

anorectal

ā-nō-RĔK-tăl

carcinoma

kăr-sĭ-NŌ-mă

diverticulum

dī-vĕr-TĬK-ū-lŭm

dysphagia

dĭs-FĂ-jē-ă

emesis

ĔM-ĕ-sĭs

enteritis

ĕn-tĕr-Ī-tĭs

hematemesis

hĕm-ăt-ĔM-ĕ-sĭs

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