Medical Terminology
Slow heart rate
Bradycardia
Louis Pasteur, know as father of immunology, helped discover that disease were caused by microorganisms and could be prevented in part by sanitization using this method
Pasteurization
Procedure to cut out part of the small intestine: Root word for small, suffix for surgical removal
Enterectomy
Healthcare professional that specializes in the study of the skin
Dermatologist
This facility specialized in the medical needs of people under 21
Children's Hospital
Elevated blood pressure: Prefix for excessive, root word for blood pressure
Hypertension
Galen was a medieval healer known for this theory
Knee joint replacement: Root word for joint, suffix for surgical repair.
Knee Arthroplasty
This healthcare professional is usually the first to respond to an emergency whose main job is stabilizing and transporting a patient to a hospital.
EMT or Paramedic
In this facility, patients go in to receive treatment and rehabilitate injuries to return to a higher level of function than before injury
Physical Therapy Clinic
Tool used to see small things: Prefix for small, root word for tool used to view things
Microscope
Aqueducts
A physician specializing in the eye: Root word for eye, suffix for doctor or specialist
Ophthalmology
This professional diagnoses and treats mental health conditions
Psychiatrist
This healthcare facility both provides care for patients but also leads research to learn and create new treatment methods to treat and cure diseases or cancers
Research Hospital
Study of the heart and lungs: Root words for heart and lungs, suffix for study of.
Cardiopulmonology
The first anatomy books written by Andreas Vesalius in 1543 were made as a result from findings from
Dissection of cadavers
Fluid in the lungs: Root word for lungs, suffix for fluid filled
Pneumonia
This person specializes in sports injuries and helps return to athletes to returning to play
OG, Supreme, Athletic Trainer
This facility focuses on patients that stay for periods of time and a dealing with significant mental disorders.
Psychiatric Hospitals
Cutting into the skull: Root word for skull and suffix for cutting into
Craniotomy
This disease kills hundreds of thousands of people per year and spread by a tiny animal making it the most dangerous animal in the world
Malaria
Outer layer of skin: Prefix for above or outside, root word for skin
Epidermis
This physician specializes in looking a lab samples or biopsies under a microscope and determining what kinds of diseases are present such as microbes or cancer
Pathologist
This facility is where elderly patients that require frequent care and stay at
Nursing Homes