Medical Terminology · Chapter 13
The Mental Status Sorter
Psychiatric terms are built from the same parts as the rest of medicine, but the words that matter most are separated by meaning, not by word part: mood and affect, delusion and hallucination, obsession and compulsion, delirium and dementia. Read each line from an intake, name the term that belongs, then name the word part that carried the meaning. The ledger on the right unlocks a contrast every time you separate one cleanly.