Positioning
Medical Terminology
Potpourri
Patient Care
Career Vocabulary
100

Position where patient is laying on the left side with right leg sharply bent upward and the left leg slightly bent.

Left Lateral

100

Relating to the ear.

Otic

100

This animal is a duck-billed, venomous, semiaquatic, egg laying mammal.

Platypus

100

Instrument used to look into the ear.

Otoscope

100

The power or opportunity to act or take charge before others do.

Initiative

200

This position is used for post surgical exams, patients with breathing problems, and patients with low back injuries.

Semi-Fowler's 

200

An opening between the colon and the body surface.

Colotomy

200

The tiny piece at the end of a shoelace.

Aglet
200

Place where intricate medications are dispensed for more complex, chronic, and rare health conditions.

Specialty Pharmacy

200

The objective analysis and evaluation of an issue to form a judgement.

Critical thinking

300

This position is used when performing a gynecology exam.

Lithotomy

300

Procedure for diagnosing and treating joint problems.

Arthroscopy

300

The original purpose of the tiny pocket in jeans was to store this item.

Pocket Watch
300

The medical assistant knows they need to review this prior to a patient's visit.

Medical Record. 

300

The quality of being trustworthy, or performing consistently well.

Reliability

400

Position where patient is prone and then asked to pull knees up to a kneeling position with thighs at 90 degree angle to the table with buttocks in the air. 

Knee-Chest

400

An abnormal absence of menstruation.

amenorrhea

400

What is the longest-running Broadway show?

The Phantom of the Opera

400

Medical examination where the provider is viewing the lower part of the large intestine.

Sigmoidoscopy

400

Qualification, achievement, personal quality, or aspect of a person's background, typically when used to indicated that they are suitable for something.

Credential

500

Position used for patients who need examination of the head, neck, and upper body. Patient sits on the exam table with head of table at 90 degree angle.

Fowler's

500

The presence of air or gas in the cavity, between the lungs and the chest wall, causing collapse of the lung.

pneumothorax

500

The rhinoceros horn is made of this.

Hair
500

The MA knows that the Notice of Privacy Practices Form, Advance Directives, Consent Forms and Medical Records Release Form can be in this part of the medical record.

Administrative Data

500

The fact or quality of being on time.

Punctuality

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