Medical Terminology
Where you go after surgery to wake up.
What is a Recovery Room?
A medical professional who specializes on the heart, its valve, structures, and the important veins and arteries near it.
What is a Cardiothoracic Surgeon?
Surgeons wear this piece of equipment over their hands to protect against the spread of bacteria that can cause illness or infection.
What is Gloves?
A surgical instrument is used to cut and dissect the skin, tissue, and suture material.
What is a Scalpel?
A special doctor who performs surgery.
What is a Surgeon?
The name of what the health problem is.
What is Diagnosis?
A medical professional who focuses on the lungs. They treat a variety of lung disorders such as chronic cough and shortness of breath.
What is a Thoracic Surgeon?
Surgeons wear this piece of equipment on their faces to protect them from contamination, such as germs, bacteria, and blood.
What is a Mask?
A medical device used to carry a suture thread through tissue, allowing a surgeon to close a wound by stitching.
What is a Suturing Needle?
When doctors fix something inside the body to make the person feel better.
What is an Operation?
A surgery that needs to be done immediately to save a life or fix a health problem.
What is an Emergency Surgery?
A medical professional who performs surgeries on the digestive tract organs in the abdomen.
What is a Gastrointestinal (GI) Surgeon?
Surgeons wear this piece of equipment over their shoes to maintain hygiene and protect the operating room during surgery.
What are Shoe Covers?
A surgical instrument used during surgical procedures to hold onto or manipulate tissues and to clamp blood vessels.
What is a Forcep?
Also known as a stitch or stitches used to hold body tissues together.
What is Suture?
A bed you lay on when you have surgery.
What is Gurney?
A medical professional who diagnoses and treats conditions that affect the brain, spinal cord, and nerves.
What is a Neurosurgeon?
Surgeons wear this piece of equipment to create a barrier between the surgical field and their clothing and skin.
What is a Gown?
A surgical instrument used to keep a surgical incision or wound apart?
What is a Retractor?
A room where surgeons perform surgical operations on their patients.
What is an Operating Room?
It stands for intravenous which is used to put medication directly inside your veins.
What is IV?
A medical professional who works with the musculoskeletal system, they treat conditions affecting the bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, tendons, and soft tissues.
What is an Orthopedic Surgeon?
Surgeons wear this piece of equipment on their heads to prevent hair from falling into the surgery room and contaminating it with bacteria.
What is a Scrub Cap?
A medical device that surgeons used to evaluate a patient's heart and identify a potential heart issue that could affect surgery.
What is an EKG?
Medicine that doctors and nurses give to make people feel comfortable when they're having surgery.
What is Anesthesia?