Medical Terminology
This prefix means "heart."
What is cardio-?
This word refers to the patient's right to make their own choices.
What is autonomy?
The muscular organ that pumps blood throughout the body.
What is Heart?
This concept emphasizes giving people the resources they need to reach equal health outcomes.
What is health equity?
This is what "SLT" stands for.
What is Service Learning Trip?
This suffix means "inflammation," like in arthritis.
What is -itis?
This is when patient information is kept private.
What is confidentiality?
The largest organ of the human body.
What is Skin?
What is a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease over a whole country or the world at a particular time called?
What is a pandemic?
MEDLIFE mainly works in this region of the world.
What is Latin America?
This term means "toward the midline of the body."
What is medial?
When you have two "right" choices but you can't pick both. This is what we call it in medical ethics.
What is an ethical dilemma?
The red pigment in blood that binds to oxygen.
What is Hemoglobin?
The U.S. agency that recommends vaccination schedules for children and adults.
What is the CDC?
What does MEDLIFE stand for?
What is Medicine, Education, and Development for Low-Income Families Everywhere.
The plane that divides the body into equal left and right sides.
What is midsagittal plane?
This term means to do no harm.
What is nonmaleficence?
This protein in muscle fibers interacts with actin to cause contraction.
What is Myosin?
The U.S. passed a law in 2010 to expand health insurance coverage.
What is The Affordable Care Act?
What is Peru?
Define megalencephaly.
What is a condition where the brain is abnormally large?
When a healthcare worker tries to do good for their patients.
What is beneficence?
This structure stores bile before releasing it into the small intestine.
What is Gallbladder?
This branch of public health studies the distribution and determinants of diseases in populations.
What is Epidemiology?
MEDLIFE became an official nonprofit organization in this year.
What is 2005?