Medical Terminology & Position
Anatomy & Position
Public Health & Safety
EMR Concepts & Other
100
A term for the imaginary vertical line that divides the body into right and left halves.
What is the Midline?
100
The body is said to be in this position when standing upright, facing forward, with arms down at the sides and palms turned forward.
What is the Anatomical position?
100
Pathogens that are breathed into the lungs enter the body through this route of exposure.
What is Inhalation?
100
The largest organ of the body.
What is the Integumentary system (or skin)?
200
The position where a patient is lying face down.
What is Prone?
200
The body cavity that houses the heart and lungs.
What is the Thoracic cavity?
200
After cleaning reusable equipment with soap and water, you must clean it again with an appropriate one of these.
What is disinfectant?
200
The anatomical reference point for dividing the abdomen into four quadrants.
What is the umbilicus (or naval)?
300
The three basic parts of most descriptive medical terms.
What are the root, the prefix, and the suffix?
300
An EMR found a trauma patient lying on his back with his head turned to the side, meaning he was in this position.
What is Supine?
300
As a paid EMR, your expected responsibility to provide care to patients who summon EMS in your jurisdiction is known as this legal tenant.
What is duty to act?
300
Pain indicated to the top of the abdomen, mainly to the left side, is in this quadrant.
What is the LUQ (Left Upper Quadrant)?
400
The medical root word for skin.
What is derm?
400
The term that refers to the front of the body.
What is Anterior?
400
The state in which the patient is supine with the foot end higher than the head.
What is the Trendelenburg position?
400
A phone order from the Medical Director to administer oxygen is an example of this type of direction.
What is on-line medical direction?
500
Medical terms that are named to honor the person who first discovered a structure or developed a procedure or instrument
What are eponyms?
500
A cut on the inside of the leg, just below the knee, would be described with the directional terms distal and this.
What is medial?
500
The term for the adequate flow of well-oxygenated blood and nutrients to all body systems, with adequate removal of waste products.
What is Perfusion?
500
What is the mechanism by which nitroglycerin lowers blood pressure, and what is the absolute contraindication related to systolic blood pressure for its administration by an EMT?