Terminology
The term for caring for those of older age.
What is Geriatric
The patient has a sore throat, fever, runny nose, and a rash.
What is Strep.
Carries blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
Izzie cut this wire
Denny's LVAD wire
The “father of modern medicine” from ancient Greece.
Who is Hippocrates?
Not cancerous
What is Benign
The patient has chest pain, shortness of breath, and radiating pain to shoulders and jaw.
What is Myocardial Infarction?
The bones in your fingers.
What are phalanges.
The very inappropriate and unusual doctor who has a cane.
Who is Dr. House?
They discovered penicillin by accident.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
The term for vomitting.
What is Emesis?
An infant comes in extremely yellow with low bilirubin levels.
What is Jaundice?
Jawbone
What is the Mandible
The fix messed up plastic surgery.
What is Botched
They developed the polio vaccine.
Who is Jonas Salk?
The suffix for inflammation
What is -itis
A patient comes in with extreme pain and anemia. During the tests the lab notices that their red blood cells are abnormally shaped.
What is Sickle Cell Disease.
Cells on the Retina of the eye
Rods and Cones
The hospital that Nurse Jackie works at.
This nurse founded modern nursing practices.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
The sound your stomach makes when you're hungry.
A patient comes in with a bone sticking out of their arm.
What is a compound fracture?
What occurs when an action potential reaches a cell.
What is depolarization?
The show is about a bunch of teens who are in the pediatric ward of a hospital and all become friends.
What is Red Band Society
The Austrian neurologist who developed psychoanalysis.