Medical Abbreviations
CPR
This organelle, responsible for producing ATP, is also known as the "powerhouse of the cell".
What is the mitochondria?
This procedure, developed in the 20th century, allows doctors to view the inside of the body without surgery through the use of electromagnetic waves.
What is an X-ray?
This suffix means "inflammation".
What is -itis?
The West Bank is one Palestinian Territory. Name the other one.
Where is Gaza?
HOSA
What are Future Health Professionals?
or
What are Health Occupations Students of America?
This cellular process is where cells divide into two identical copies.
What is mitosis?
This disease, also known as the Black Death, wiped out 50% of the European population in the mid 14th century.
What is the bubonic plague?
This term refers to high blood pressure.
What is hypertension?
This high-grossing movie takes place on the moon of the planet Pandora.
What is Avatar?
HIV
What is Human Immunodeficiency Virus?
This large, dome-shaped muscle plays a crucial role in breathing by contracting and expanding the chest cavity.
What is the diaphragm?
This 20th-century discovery by Alexander Fleming revolutionized the treatment of bacterial infections.
What is penicillin?
This term refers to a surgical procedure to remove the appendix.
What is an appendectomy?
This is the only Great Lake that doesn't border Canada.
What is Lake Michigan?
EKG
What is an Electrocardiogram?
This is a condition in which a part of your body swells as a result of too much fluid being trapped in your body's tissues.
What is an edema?
This person discovered bacteria, and is known as the father of microbiology.
Who is Anton van Leeuwenhoek?
This term refers to difficulty swallowing.
What is dysphagia?
This African animal kills about 300 people every year, the most of any animal that deliberately hunts humans.
What is the Nile crocodile?
MI
What is Myocardial Infarction?
There are 2 phases of the cardiac cycle that are measured when you take your blood pressure. Name either.
What is the systole?
or
What is the diastole?
This ancient Greek physician, also known as the father of medicine, is credited with the first clinical description of epilepsy, referring to it as the "sacred disease."
Who is Hippocrates?
This term refers to the prenatal procedure that involves extracting a small amount of amniotic fluid from the uterus through a perforation.
What is amniocentesis?
This city is the Capital of Australia.
Where is Canberra?