Medical terminology
What is the medical term for a slow heart?
what is Bradycardia?
This digital version of a patient's paper chart is updated by office staff.
What is an Electronic Health Record, or EHR/EMR?
This common office tool measures a patient's body temperature
What is a thermometer?
QID?
what is four times a day
A serious medical condition where the protective layers covering your brain and spinal cord become swollen and inflamed.
What is Meningitis?
What is the main organ of your respiratory?
What is the Lungs?
This process involves sorting patients based on how urgently they need care
What is triage?
Doctors use this lighted scope to look inside a patient's ears
What is an otoscope?
HR?
Heart Rate
This is the medical term for a common nosebleed.
What is epistaxis?
What body system is the nail and hair part of?
What is the Integumentary system?
This is the formal term for booking two patients for the exact same time slot
What is double-booking?
This machine uses sound waves to create live pictures of a baby inside a mother's belly.
What is an ultrasound machine?
BMI?
Body Mass Index
The everyday name for your phalanges.
What are fingers and toes?
This suffix means an abnormal condition or disease process.
what is -osis?
This itemized form details all the services provided during a visit and is used to create an insurance claim.
What is a super-bill, or encounter form?
A tool to listen to your heartbeat and breathing.
What is a stethoscope?
CVA?
What is cerebrovascular accident?
True or False: You should tilt your head backward during a nosebleed.
What is False? You should tilt forward to avoid swallowing blood?
The heart and blood vessels make up this transport system.
What is the cardiovascular system?
This code system classifies every disease, injury, and symptom for insurance tracking
What is ICD-10?
his machine connects sticky pads to a patient's chest to print out a map of the heart's electrical rhythm
What is an EKG or ECG machine?
What is Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease?
MRSA?
What is Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus?