Vocab
What a suffix typically defines.
What is PROCEDURE or CONDITION?
The unit of measurement in which blood pressure is measured.
What is Millimeters of Mercury (mm Hg)?
The amount of compressions given to a person in one set while performing CPR (adult).
What is 30?
The powerhouse of the cell.
What is the MITOCHONDRIA?
The year in which HIPAA was enforced.
What is 2004?
The body part associated with the term "salpingo"
What is FALLOPIAN TUBE?
What the term "dyspnea" means in relation to recording respirations.
What is difficult or labored breathing?
The term associated with the abbreviation CPR.
What is cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
The pancreas is located within this body cavity.
What is the ABDOMINAL CAVITY?
This form of defamation occurs when incorrect information is WRITTEN about a person.
What is LIBEL?
The medical abbreviation for "drop".
What is Gtt?
A person is considered to be experiencing a hypertensive crisis if their DIASTOLIC number is above ____.
What is 120?
This type of wound occurs when tissue is separated or torn from the victims body.
The properties or characteristics that all muscles have.
What is excitability, contractibility, extensibility, and elasticity?
Name the 8 major pulse sites.
What is TEMPORAL, CAROTID, BRACHIAL, RADIAL, FEMORAL, POPLITEAL, DORSALIS PEDIS, POSTERIOR TIBIAL?
The term associated with the abbreviation AIDS.
What is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome?
What is SPHYGMOMANOMETER?
S-P-H-Y-G-M-O-M-A-N-O-M-E-T-E-R.
The four main methods for controlling bleeding IN ORDER.
What is DIRECT PRESSURE, ELEVATION, PRESSURE BANDAGE, TOURNIQUET?
What is osteomyelitis?
Name the 9 abdominal regions.
What are the right hypochondriac, epigastric, left hypochondriac, right lumbar, umbilical, left lumbar, right iliac, hypogastric, left iliac regions?
The abbreviations "epi" and "hyper" mean similar things. Define each.
What is OVER, UPON? (Epi)
What is OVER, ABOVE? (Hyper)
The normal range of temperature for an axillary temperature.
What is 96.6 oF -98.6 oF?
The phone number for Poison Control Centers (PCC).
What is 1-800-222-1222?
What is moving a body part toward the midline (adduction) and moving a body part away from the midline (abduction)?
What are Hepatitis B virus, Hepatitis C virus, and human immunodeficiency virus? (HBV, HCV, HIV)