Medical Terminology
Word root meaning foot.
What is ped/o?
A health professional who practices medicine to maintain/restore health through diagnosis and treatment of a patient's issue
What is a doctor?
A substance used for medical treatment.
What is medicine/medication?
An infectious disease that often results in mild to moderate symptoms commonly including cough, fever, tiredness, and loss of taste/smell. This disease led to a global pandemic in 2020.
What is COVID-19 / Coronavirus?
This system contains the liver, esophagus, gallbladder.
What is the Digestive System?
Word root meaning life.
What is bi/o?
A health professional that works to care for the health of animals.
What is a veterinarian?
A procedure performed to structurally alter the human body by incision/destruction of tissues in order to treat various types of injuries, diseases, and deformities. This procedure is a major part of medicine.
What is surgery?
Health conditions involving changes in emotion, thinking, or behavior (or a combination of these)
What is mental illness / Sean?
This system contains the heart, vessels, and arteries.
What is the Cardiovascular System?
The medical term for above normal.
What is hyper?
A doctor that focuses on the health of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.
What is a pediatrician?
A substance used to stimulate the body's immune response against diseases to produce immunity; is usually given through needle injections.
What is a vaccination?
A type of condition that concerns the irregular functioning of the heart; has various conditions under its category. Often has to do with the irregular functioning of a major artery, vessel, valve, or another form of abnormality in the heart.
What is cardiovascular disease / heart disease?
This system contains spleen, thymus, tonsils.
What is the Lymphatic System?
The medical term for below normal.
What is hypo?
A medical doctor who specializes in conditions that affects the skin, hair, and nails.
What is a dermatologist?
A drug treatment that uses powerful chemical to kill fast-growing cells in the body.
What is chemotherapy?
A disease in which abnormal cells divide uncontrollably and destroy body tissue. Leads to the creation of tumor(s).
What is cancer?
This system contains erythrocytes, platelets, plasma.
What is the Blood/Hematic System?
The medical term for around.
What is peri?
A doctor who diagnoses and treats conditions that affect your nervous system; provides both surgical and nonsurgical treatments for patients with issues regarding the nervous system.
What is a neurosurgeon?
A treatment commonly used/taken by people with diabetes to help maintain their blood glucose levels.
What is insulin/insulin treatment?
A chronic condition in which the body doesn't produce enough insulin resulting in high blood sugar.
What is diabetes?
This system contains the thyroid, adrenal, pituitary glands.
What is the Endocrine System?