Anatomical Planes & Directions
This plane, also known as the frontal plane, divides the body into anterior and posterior portions.
Coronal Plane
Name one of the two main body cavities.
Dorsal & Ventral
The word part Aden/o refers to this body structure.
Gland
Transmission or spread of a disease through contact with blood or other body fluids that have been contaminated with blood is known as?
Bloodborne Transmission
An acronym for life-saving chest compressions and rescue breathing.
CPR
A term meaning "toward the head" or above another part.
Superior
This cavity is within the vertebral column.
Spinal Cavity
The word part path/o means this.
Disease
An outbreak of the Ebola virus disease affected several countries in West Africa during 2014-2016. Which term best describes this outbreak?
Epidemic
The acronym DNR stands for this, regarding a patient's wishes for resuscitation.
Do Not Resuscitate
This term means "farthest from the point of origin," often used for limbs or extremities.
Distal
This large cavity is located in the chest and houses the heart and lungs.
Thoracic Cavity
Which is a prefix that means out of, outside, or away from?
exo-
A mosquito infected with malaria that bites a person is an example of which type of disease transmission?
Vector-borne
A professional who specializes in the study of the nature and cause of diseases that involve changes in structure and function.
Pathologist
The plane that divides the body vertically into equal left and right halves
Mid-Sagittal
What cavities are located within the ventral cavity?
Thoracic, Abdominal, & Pelvic
The word part Cephal/o means this, relating to the directional term Cephalic.
Towards the head
Transmission that occurs through inanimate objects like a dirty doorknob or shared medical equipment.
Indirect contact transmission
The term for a group of signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a specific disease or abnormality.
Syndrome
The plane that divides the body into upper and lower portions.
Transverse Plane
The major muscle that separates the thoracic cavity and the abdominal cavity.
The Diaphragm
The combination of the word part cyt/o and the suffix -logy would refer to the study of these.
Cells
An infection acquired in a hospital or other clinical care setting.
Nosocomial infection
The branch of medicine concerned with the illnesses of old age.
Geriatrics