Medical Terminology
The CC during an office visit
What is Chief Complaint?
What is the epidermis?
The supplement is highly recommended for people who live in the Pacific Northwest
What is Vitamin D3?
A routine procedure to check heart health during a visit
What is blood pressure?
The number way to prevent the spread of infection
What is hand hygiene?
The "A" in a SOAP note
What is assessment?
The most common artery to take a manual pulse
What is the radial artery?
Drug class including ibuprofen, Aleve, and aspirin (abbr.)
What are NSAIDs?
The process of obtaining blood for testing
What is phlebotomy?
Masks, gowns, and gloves.
What is personal protective equipment?
What is the sig?
The tube that connects the kidney to the bladder
What is the ureter?
Route involving placing a medication under the tongue
What is sublingual?
A patient who is having trouble hearing may need this simple in-office procedure
What is an ear lavage?
The transmission of this type of pathogen increases when working with needles and sharps.
What is bloodborne?
The suffix meaning "pain"
What is -algia?
This part of the brain is responsible for voluntary muscle control, speech, motor function, judgment and reasoning
What is the frontal lobe?
The class of medications that Albuterol belongs to
What are bronchodilators?
Tissue sample collection
A variant of a bacterial mutation which does not respond to antibiotics
What is MRSA?
Word meaning inflammation of the brain
What is encephalitis
What is the right lower quadrant?
Risperidone belongs to this class of medications
What are antipsychotics?
A procedure to remove cysts and ingrown hairs, popularized by Dr. Pimple Popper
What is an incision and drainage?
This spore-producing bacillus is the most common cause of antibiotic diarrhea.
What is C. Diff?