Medical Specialties
A medical specialist who treats skin disease
What is a dermatologist
Before a glass clinical thermometer is used, it should be soaked in a disinfectant for a minimum of
What is 30 minutes?
Pulse, Temperature, Respiration, Blood pressure
What are the 4 main vital signs?
The area where ribosomes are manufactured in the cell
What is the nucleolus?
Constant pressure in the walls of the arteries
What is diastolic?
A medical specialist who treats diseases and disorders of muscles and bones
What is an orthopedist?
When should safety glasses should be worn?
What is at all times
The most accurate method for taking a temperature
What is rectal?
Organic compounds essential to life
Phospholipids, triglycerides, and cholesterol
What are the three most common lipids found in both food and the human body?
A medical specialist who treats tumors and cancer
What is an oncologists?
What are the three things needed in order for a fire to start?
What is fuel, heat and oxygen?
periods of apnea and dyspnea
What is Cheyne-Stokes respiration?
The study of the processes of living organisms, or why and how they work
What is physiology?
includes all body processes relating to food.
What is nutrition?
A medical specialist who treats diseases and disorders of the eye
What is an opthalmologist?
Flush the eye with large amounts of water.
What should you do first if a particle gets in your eye?
The horizontal plane that divides the body into a top half and a bottom half
What is transverse plane?
the essential nutrients made up of amino acids
What are proteins?
closing of the valves in the heart
What are heart sounds caused by?
A dental specialty that replaces natural teeth with artificial teeth or dentures
What is prosthodontics?
Opening sterile tray before donning gloves, reaching in from the side, and touching only sterile items with sterile gloves are in place
What are sterile techniques?
Areas where two or more bones join together
The constant state of fluid balance
A pulse is described as regular or irregular
What is rhythum?