MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
This prefix means "above" or "upon"
What is epi-?
The human body's largest organ
What is the skin?
Common local anesthetic
What is Lidocaine?
Most common sterilization method
What is Steam sterilization?
Instrument for grasping fascia
What is the Kocher/Ochsner forceps?
This suffix means "surgical removal"
What is -ectomy?
Separates thoracic and abdominal cavities
What is the diaphragm?
Reversal for heparin
What is Protamine sulfate?
Gold standard sterilization monitor
What is a Biological indicator?
Self-retaining abdominal retractor
What is the Balfour retractor?
The medical term Herniorrhaphy is defined as this surgical procedure
What is Repair of inguinal hernia?
Nerve at risk in thyroidectomy
What is the recurrent laryngeal nerve?
Drug reducing fibrinolysis
What is Tranexamic acid?
Gas for heat-sensitive items
What is Ethylene oxide?
Bone-biting instrument
What is a Rongeur?
The medical term for stopping or controlling bleeding
What is hemostasis?
Veins carrying oxygenated blood
What are the pulmonary veins?
Topical hemostatic agent
What is Thrombin?
Sterility depends on what concept
What is Event-related sterility?
Noncrushing bowel clamp
What is a Doyen clamp?
Breakdown the term osteomyelitis and its definitions.
What is osteo (bone), myel (bone marrow), and -itis (inflammation). An infection and inflammation of bone tissue and bone marrow, most often caused by bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus?
Test before radial artery harvest
What is the Allen test?
Common irrigation solution
What is Normal saline?
First action after contamination
What is Report and correct immediately?
Clamp for partial vascular occlusion
What is a Satinsky clamp?