Medical Terminology/Abbreviations
What part of a word helps describe location, direction or amount?
Prefix
The terms left/right and upper/lower are from what perspectived?
Anatomical Position
What part of the sterile gown is considered sterile?
Fingers to 2" Above Elbow
When following Maslow’s concept of a motivational hierarchy of needs to set priorities for patient care, which level of needs must be met first?
Physiologic
What is the movement of particles through a permeable membrane?
Osmosis
What part of a world helps determine which part of the body it relates to?
Root
What is any fluid-filled space in a multicellular organism? This tem refers to the space where internal organs develop.
Body cavity
What is an inanimate object that may be contaminated with infectious organisms that serve to transmit disease?
Fomite
More than one disease entity in an individual that intersect and require continual monitoring and treatment.
Comorbidity
What are the methods of tranmission for diseases?
Direct contact
Droplet transmission
Airborne tranmission
Oral transmission
Which part of a word helps describe what the problem is?
Suffix
This cell is responsible for receiving sensory input from the external world, sends commands to our muscles.
Neuron (nerve cell)
In clinical practice, items are considered what two things?
Sterile or unsterile
The degree of illness, type of procedure, and level of cognition all affect a patient’s:
Perceptions of caring behaviors
What organisms require oxygen?
Aerobes
What suffix describe softening?
- malacia
The primary function of this body system is to filter blood and secrete waste products such as urine.
Genitoururinary
In what technique are all microorganisms maintained at an irreducible number?
Sterile Technique
Please give three coping mechanisms of patients?
Denial
Displacement
Identification
Projection
Rationalization
Reaction formation
Regression
Repression
What type of bacteria is curved or spiral-shaped?
Spirochetes
What root word describes gray?
Poli/o
What is the landmark you use to visualize the four quadrants?
Umbilicus
In what technique do you use methods by which contamination with microorganisms is prevented?
Aseptic Technique
What are Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
Self-Actualization
Ego
Social
Security
Physiologic
What is MRSA?
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus