Disease Terminology
A term that describes difficulty swallowing
What is dysphagia?
The head is ___ to the body.
What is superior?
This cavity is where the lungs reside.
What is the thoracic cavity?
This abbreviation means ER means this.
Emergency Room
This membrane separates the lungs from lower cavities.
What is the diaphragm?
Though the name of a common virus, the word "Hepatitis" means this condition
What is inflammation of the liver?
This plane is the vertical midline from the front of the body.
What is the saggital plane?
The dorsal cavity is comprised of the cranial cavity and the ____ cavity.
What is the vertebral cavity?
h.s. means this.
What is hours of sleep?
The most famous example of a positive feedback loop is this biological event.
What is giving birth?
A nephrectomy entails this kind of operation.
Deep is for something closer to the inside the body, as opposed to this term for closer to the outside.
What is superficial?
This cavity is actually made of two cavities not separated by a membrane.
What is the abdominopelvic cavity?
You would shorten signs and symptoms as this abbreviation.
S/S
Homeostasis is the body's tendency to do this.
What is maintain constant conditions in a certain range?
The study of cells is called...
What is cytology?
This term describes any body plane that is a diagonal rather than horizontal or vertical.
What is the oblique plane?
This cavity separates the lungs.
What is the pleural cavity?
The abbreviation for if a patient is not supposed to take a medication by mouth is this.
What is NPO?
An explanation that needs to be tested in an experiment is called this.
What is a hypothesis?
The meaning of Polyneuropathy
What is disease effecting many nerves?
(Particularly of the PNS)
The elbow is ___ to the body, compared to the wrist
Or What is medial?
Opposite the dorsal cavity is the ____ cavity.
What is ventral cavity?
Though they can both cause headaches, ICP doesn't stand for Insane Clown Posse, but this.
What is Intracranial Pressure?
The standard pose for a body when describing position is called this.
What is the anatomical position?