Medical Terminology
Skin is the meaning of this root word.
Medication experts that prepare and dispense prescriptions, ensure that medicines and doses are correct.
What are pharmacists?
This act is associated with the protection of confident patient healthcare information.
What is HIPAA?
A disease caused by the body's inability to produce proper amounts of insulin.
What is diabetes?
This is the inability to eat or swallow.
What is aphagia?
This specialist performs procedures specific to gum disease and dental implants.
What is a periodontist?
This organ is vital to human speech.
What is the larynx?
Employers with 20 or more employees must allow their employees to continue health care coverage at the business's expense in this law.
The father of medicine and a Greek physician with a famous oath named for him.
What is Hippocrates?
The medical prefix meaning "slow."
What is brady-?
This medical professional would be MOST needed to work at the CDC.
What is an epidemiologist?
Largest lymphatic organ in the body.
This program delivers health coverage to children living in low income households.
What is CHIP? Children's Health Insurance Program
There are 206 bones in the human body, and this one is the largest and strongest.
What is the femur?
The first part of the large intestine.
What is the cecum?
A physician working in the study of joints, muscles, and often arthritis
What is a rheumatologist?
These are the three parts of the brainstem.
What are the midbrain, pons, and medulla?
The most common cause of malpractice claims.
What is misdiagnosis?
A practice commonly used by emergency medicine physicians to assign order of treatment to patients based on wound/illness severity.
What is triage?
Inflammation of a sweat gland.
A subspecialty in the field of hematology and oncology that specialize in stem cell transplants.
What is a Bone Marrow Transplant Doctor?
A fluid filled space below the bones that provides shock absorbance.
What is the syrinx?
This president finally succeeded in providing coverage for US senior citizens.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats for the protein 9 is also known as this.
What is CRISPR-CAS 9?