Professions
This profession specializes in diagnosing and treating diseases through medical imaging technology.
What is a radiologist?
This is a mental health condition that causes extreme, unpredictable changes in a person's mood, energy, and activity levels.
What is bipolar disorder?
This is the medical abbreviation for nothing by mouth.
What is NPO?
This is the tool used by doctors that is banged against your knee.
What is a reflex hammer?
This is another name for white blood cells.
What is a leukocyte?
This profession draws blood and studies it for tests and transfusions.
What is a phlebotomist?
This is an injury where a ligament is stretched or torn.
What is a sprain?
PRN is a medical abbreviation that stands for this.
What is "as needed" or "as the situation arises"?
This is the lighted tool used by doctors to look into your ear canal.
What is an otoscope?
Normal systolic blood pressure is less than this many mmHg.
What is 120?
This is a doctor that only works night shifts.
What is a nocturnist?
This is a progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory, thinking skills, and the ability to carry out simple daily tasks.
What is Alzheimer's disease?
This is a medical term that means having high levels of cholesterol in your blood.
What is hypercholesterolemia?
This is a clamping tool used to control bleeding.
What is a hemostat?
Rene Laennec invented and used it to listen to internal body sounds.
What is the stethoscope?
This profession makes and fits fake prosthetic eyes for patients.
What is an ocularist?
This genetic disorder that causes breakdown of nerve cells in the brain.
What is Huntington's disease?
Scler/o is a medical root word with this meaning.
What is hardening?
This is a tool used to grasp or hold or other items during a surgical procedure.
What are forceps?
There are this many phalanges in the human body.
What is 56?
This profession specializes in operating the heart-lung machine during open-heart surgery.
What is a perfusionist?
This is the progressive scarring of lung tissue.
What is Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis?
This is the medical term for a heart attack.
What is a myocardial infarction?
This is a hand-held surgical instrument used to gently retract, isolate, and maneuver fragile nerves and delicate tissues.
What is a Crile Nerve Hook?
The right pleural cavity, left pleural cavity, and mediastinum are the three major compartments of this body part.
What is the thoracic cavity?