Medical Terminology
The term for low blood pressure
What is hypotension ?
The term for closer to the reference point.
What is proximal?
The occupation that provides pre-hospital medical care in an emergency setting.
What is Emergency Medical Technician (EMT)?
What is battery?
This systems main organs are the lungs, diaphragm, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and bronchioles.
What is the Respiratory System?
The term for slow heart rate
What is bradycardia?
The plane that divides the body into front and back portions.
What is frontal plane?
The three types of learning styles.
What is visual learning, auditory learning, and kinesthetic learning?
What is Intensive Care Unit (ICU)?
This system serves to defend against infection, maintain fluid balance, and remove waste products.
What is the Lymphatic system?
The combining form that refers to the liver.
What is hepat/o?
The hand is ______to the elbow.
What is distal?
The number of steps in the problem-solving process.
What is 5?
The facility that provides nursing and rehabilitation services on a 24-hour basis.
What is Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)?
This term is the tendency of a cell or the whole organism to maintain a state of balance.
What is Homeostasis?
The acronym for "as needed"?
What is p.r.n.?
Cells with similar functions that are grouped together.
What is tissue?
To work as a massage therapist, Kelly must obtain approval from her state. This is called...
What is Licensure?
Another term for Mercy killing, which is performing an action that results in the death of a patient to alleviate suffering or when it is believed the there is no hope for recovering.
What is Euthanasia?
The nervous system can be categorized into two branches.
What is CNS and PNS?
The term that means "enlargement of the liver"
What is hepatomegaly?
This foundational level of biological organization consists of atoms and molecules, which are the building blocks of all matter, and is essential for the formation of complex biological structures such as proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids.
What is the chemical level?
The 4 emerging trends in healthcare today.
What are technological advancements, specialization, aging population, and cost of health care?
What term describes the "organ transplantation" problem?
This body system works closely with the circulatory system.
What is the Respiratory System?