Pharmacology
Mental Health
Gerontology
Diseases & Conditions
Abbreviations
100
alges/o
What is sensitivity to pain?
100
Affect
What is observable evidence of a person's feelings or emotions?
100
Stiff
What is ankyl/o?
100
A chronic pulmonary disease characterized by increase beyond the normal in the size of air spaces distal to the terminal bronchiole, either from dilatation of the alveoli or from the destruction of their walls.
What is emphysema?
100
AIDS
What is "acquired immunodeficiency syndrome"?
200
The medical term that means "pertaining to a lack of/without feeling, nervous sensation or sense of perception"
What is anesthetic?
200
-phobia
What is abnormal fear?
200
Presby/o
What is old, elderly?
200
A congenital defect of the CNS in which the back portion of one or more vertebrae is not closed. A dimpling over the area may occur.
What is spina bifida occulta?
200
ESRD
What is "end-stage renal disease"?
300
A classification of medications that means "against clotting".
What is anticoagulant?
300
Disorders that are characterized short-term and long-term memory deficits.
What are Amnesia Disorders?
300
The term that means, literally, porous bones; that is, bones that were once strong become fragile due to loss of bone density.
What is osteoporosis.
300
Digestive tract inflammation of a chronic nature causing fever, cramping, diarrhea, weight loss, and anorexia.
What is Crohn's disease?
300
PERRLA
What is "pupils equal; round, reactive to light, and accommodation"?
400
Drug classification that means "pertaining to against rhythm".
What is antiarrhythmic?
400
A progressive, organic mental disorder characterized by chronic personality disintegration, confusion, disorientation, stupor, deterioration of intellectual capacity and function, impairment of control of memory, judgement, and impulses.
What is dementia?
400
Neurological deficit resulting from a decrease in blood (ischemia) to a specific localized area in the brain; also called "stroke" or "brain attack".
What is cerebrovascular accident (CVA)?
400
A localized dilation of an artery formed at a weak point in the vessel wall. This weakened area balloons out with each pulsation of the artery.
What is an aneurysm?
400
PID
What is "pelvic inflammatory disease"?
500
Parenteral medications must be administered by one of these four routes.
What is intramuscular, intradermal, subcutaneous, intravenous.
500
Any of a large group of psychotic disorders characterized by gross distortion of reality, disturbances of language and communication, withdrawal from social interaction, and the disorganization and fragmentation of thought, perception, and emotional reaction.
What is schizophrenia?
500
A degenerative, slowly progressive, deterioration of nerves in the brain stem's motor system-characterized by a gradual onset of symptoms (such as stooped posture with the body flexed forward, a bowed head, a shuffling gait, pill-rolling gestures, an expressionless masklike facial appearance, muffled speech, and swallowing difficulty).
What is Parkinson's disease.
500
Usually caused by the Epstein-Barr virus, this disease is typically a benign self limiting acute infection of the B-lymphocytes.
What is mononucleosis?
500
ACTH
What is "adenocorticotropic hormone"?
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