Musculoskeletal
Med term for fingers and toes
What are phalanges?
Flesh, colored raised area caused by a viral infection
What is a wart?
Normal range for pulse (heart rate)
What is 60-100 bpm
Med term for slow breathing
What is bradypnea?
Abbreviation for immediately
What is STAT?
Treatment RICE for musculoskeletal injury
What is Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation?
Medical word for fluid filled blisters
What is vesicles?
Fine branching blood vessels that form network between arteries and veins
What are capillaries?
Med term for surgical removal of voice box
What is laryngectomy?
The pulse felt at the wrist
What is radial pulse?
Category of medications that relieve pain
What are analgesics?
Pigment that gives the skin its color
What is melanin?
Med term blood condition without (red blood cells)
What is anemia?
Type of immunity the body develops from vaccination
What is acquired passive immunity?
Another medical term for the Anterior surface of the body
What is ventral?
Med term softening of the bone
What is osteomalacia?
Category of medications to relieve itching
What is antipruritics?
Med term incision into a vein
Phlebotomy (or venotomy)
Med term to measure breathing
What is Spirometry?
The term for a disease that has no cure, only treatments
What is terminal?
Med term for pertaining to difficult coordination
What is dystaxia?
Med Term Surgical repair of the eyelid
What is blepharoplasty?
Category of medications that widen the blood vessels to help decrease BP
What are vasodilators?
Med term deficiency of white blood cells
What is leukopenia (or leukocytopenia)
Disease acquired in the hospital setting
What is nosocomial?