Medical Terminology
The root word cranio means:
What is the head/skull?
People believed that the cause of disease and illness was this:
What is punishment from the Gods?
What event marked the beginning of the Dark Ages?
What was the fall of the Roman Empire?
Using knowledge obtained from the Greeks, what did the Romans develop to prevent disease?
What is sanitation systems?
Place that sold medicines:
What is an apothecary?
The suffix itis means:
What is inflammation?
Who are tribal witch doctors?
During the Dark Ages, this was prohibited:
What is the study/practice of medicine?
Acceptance of dissection of the body, invention of the printing press, and renewed interest in the science of medicine all occurred during this time period.
What is the Renaissance?
This drug is used to treat diabetes.
What is insulin?
The prefix mal means:
What is bad?
This was used to treat insanity, epilepsy and headaches:
What is trapannation/trephining?
This disease occurred during the Middle Ages and killed 75% of the population in Europe and Asia:
What is the Bubonic Plague/Black Death?
Famous Greek physician, known as "The father of medicine".
Who is Hippocrates?
The invention of what diagnostic instrument confirmed disseases were caused by microorganisms.
What is the microscope?
The meaning of DNR:
What is Do Not Resuscitate?
Tribal witch doctors treated illness with ceremonies to do this:
What is drive out evil spirits?
A major difference in the medical practice of primitive civilizations and that of the later time periods is that the later civilizations believed diseases were caused by this:
What is natural causes?
This allowed for medical information to be shared more easily.
What is the printing press?
This was the leading cause of death in the 16th century.
What is infection?
The meaning of the abbreviation NPO:
What is nothing by mouth?
What might the witch doctor give a person to relieve pain or illness?
What are herbs and plants?
During the middle ages, monks rewrote these:
What are medical books?
Therapies the ancient Greeks used were this:
What are massage and art?
The development of this device enabled physicians to listen to sounds inside the body.
What is a stethoscope?