Location Abbreviations
Scans
Body Parts
Acronyms
Medical Terminology
100

Which location is listed as "PUH" in EPIC?

What is Presby?
100

What scan is also known as sonography?

What is an Ultrasound?

100

This large organ lies under the rib cage on the right side of the belly. It makes bile (a substance that helps digest fat). It also stores sugars and breaks down many of the body's waste products.

What is Liver?

100

What does MRI stand for?

What is Magnetic Resonance Imaging?

100

This disease happens when fatty deposits called plaque (say "plak") build up inside your coronary arteries.

What is Coronary Artery Disease?

200

Which location is listed as "MUH" in EPIC?

What is Montefiore 

200

Which scan shows the body’s organs more clearly and in greater detail than regular x-rays. This machine is often compared to looking like a donut.

What is a CT Scan?

200

This small organ is right under the liver. It stores bile. When you eat, this organ contracts to send bile to the bowels (intestines). The bile helps your body digest food and absorb vitamins that dissolve in fat

What is Gallbladder?

200

What does PET stand for?

What is positron emission tomography?

200

This is a substance used to make specific organs, blood vessels, or types of tissue (such as tumors) more visible on X-rays

This material may also be used during a CT scan, an ultrasound, or an MRI scan.

What is Contrast Material?

300

Which location is listed as "PVT" in EPIC?

What is Passavant

300

Which scan is used to test bone density?

What is a DEXA Scan?

300

This organ helps fight infection. It also filters old red blood cells. This organ sits to the left of the stomach, just behind the lower left ribs.

What is Spleen?

300

What does CT stand for?

What is Computed tomography?

300

These are medicines that have a calming effect

What are sedatives or tranquilizers?

400

Which location is listed as "SHY" in EPIC?

What is Shadyside

400

Which type of scan offers an option for a "wide" machine?

What is MRI?

400

This pair of organs is in the upper part of your belly, but toward your back. The kidneys remove wastes from the blood. They also make urine.

What are kidneys?

400

What is the full name of an ECHO?

What is Echocargiogram?

400

This is a small device that's placed (implanted) in the chest to help control the heartbeat. It's used to prevent the heart from beating too slowly.

What is a pacemaker?

500

Which location is listed as "STM" in EPIC?

What is St. Margaret

500

Which type of test would someone use a treadmill?

What is a Stress Test?

500

This gland is in the upper belly. It makes enzymes that help digest food. The digestive enzymes then move into the bowels. 

What is Pancreas?

500

What does IV stand for?

What is Intravenous?

500

This is the narrowing of one or more arteries that carry blood to your kidneys (renal arteries).

What is Renal Artery Stenosis?

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