Medical Terminology / Unit 9 MedTerm 0550 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Reading the -pnea Family
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The idea
Reading a pnea term means identifying which of three things the prefix describes: presence, effort, or rate.
In practice
Six terms sorted into three questions.
Where people slip
Dyspnea and tachypnea are routinely treated as the same finding. One is about work and the other about speed.
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