Common Med Terms
Auscultation
What is the action of listening to sounds from the heart, lungs, and other organs, typically with a stethoscope?
Medial
What is towards the midline?
Hypo-
What is low?
Cysto-
What is the urinary bladder?
-centesis
What is puncturing into?
Purulent
What is pus?
Distal
What is away from center or beginning?
What is below?
Hyster-
What is the uterus?
-lysis
What is to breakdown?
Epistaxis
What is nosebleed?
Superficial
What is towards the surface?
Ab-
Enter-
What is intestine?
-rrhage
What is to burst?
Flexion
What is decreasing the angle between two bones at a joint?
Dorsal
What is towards the spine?
Exo-
What is testicles?
-scope
What is the act of using an instrument for viewing?
Proprioception
What is knowing where you limbs are in space?
Anterior
Intra-
What is within?
Stomato-
What is the mouth?
-pexy
What is to suture to?