Vocabulary I
Pertaining to the mind
What is Psychiatric?
Approves drugs, medicines, and food products
What is the FDA (Food & Drug Administration)?
Nursing homes, geriatric care, care for physically ill or injured people
What is Convalescent Care?
What is Orthopedics?
Serving patients who are unable to walk
What is Ambulatory?
Repairing or removing a body part by cutting
What is Surgical?
A public service that protects, promotes, and advances the health and safety of the nation.
What is U.S. Public Health Service?
Outpatient care for those who need physical or occupational therapy, recreational therapy or other therapies over a length of time.
What is Rehabilitation?
The method of adjusting the segments of the spinal column.
What is Chiropractic?
Substances given to make disease organisms harmless to the patient, usually by injection.
What are Immunizations?
Old or elderly people
What is Geriatric?
Monitors to prevent and control disease outbreaks.
What is the CDC (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)?
A type of hospital that does not specialize in a specific type of medicine. Physicians, nurses, and support staff are employed there
What are General Hospitals?
Pertaining to the treatment of disease or injury (e.g. physical therapy, diet, nursing)
What is Therapeutic?
Places designed or built to serve a special function (e.g. hospital, clinic, doctor's office)
What are Facilites?
Continuing over many years or for a long time
What is Chronic?
A federally supported agency that takes care of those who served in the armed forces.
What is the Veteran Administration Hospital (VA)?
What are Specialty Hospitals?
The study of hearing disorders
What is Audiolog?
Elevation of the blood pressure
What is Hypertension?
The gradual recovery of health and strength after illness
What is Convalescence?
Hospitals that care for people with mental and psychiatric disorders
What are State Psychiatric Hospitals?
Places of residence for people who require nursing care
What are Nursing Homes?
The branch of medical science concerned with childbirth
What is Obstetrics?
Pertaining to the determination of the nature of a disease or injury by examining (x-ray, MRI, EKG)
What is Diagnostic?