BTG INTERPRETER (SKILLS & ETHICS)
The default role where you repeat everything exactly word-for-word.
This highly common suffix translates directly to "inflammation."
What is -itis?
This root word means "kidney," and is found in the name of the doctor who treats kidney disease.
What is Nephrologist?
This type of diabetes is caused by "insulin resistance," where the body’s cells ignore the insulin the pancreas is making.
What is Type 2 Diabetes?
Fast-acting inhalers (like Albuterol) used to rapidly relax and dilate constricted airways during an acute asthma flare-up.
What are Bronchodilators?
The role you use to lower the medical register or explain an idiom.
What is the Clarifier?
This Greek anatomical root refers specifically to the stomach and is the first part of the word describing a stomach specialist.
What is Gastr- / Gastro-?
The large breathing muscle located directly under the lungs.
Answer: What is the Diaphragm?
A progressive respiratory condition, heavily linked to smoking, that combines chronic bronchitis and the destruction of alveoli (emphysema).
What is Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)?
A daily synthetic hormone replacement tablet (like Levothyroxine) prescribed to manage a sluggish, underactive thyroid gland.
What is Thyroid Hormone Replacement?
The primary mode where you wait for the speaker to pause before interpreting.
This common medical prefix means "below, under, or deficient," and is found in words indicating low blood pressure or an underactive thyroid.
What is Hypo-?
The heart contracts to push oxygen-rich blood out to the rest of the body. This action creates the maximum pressure in your blood vessels. The top number in a blood pressure reading,
What is Systolic Blood Pressure?
Plaque buildup in the main arteries of the heart that cuts off oxygen delivery, causing severe chest pain or a myocardial infarction.
What is Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)?
A class of drugs (like Omeprazole/Prilosec) that help reduce the production of gastric acid.
What is acid reflux medicine?
Reading a written form out loud into the patient's language.
What is Sight Translation?
This surgical suffix means "surgical removal or excision," as seen in terms like hysterectomy or appendectomy.
What is -ectomy?
Chemical messengers that carry signals from nerve to nerve.
What are Neurotransmitters?
A painful gynecological condition where endometrial tissue mysteriously grows completely outside the uterine cavity.
What is Endometriosis?
Medications commonly known as "water pills" (like Furosemide/Lasix) that force the kidneys to excrete excess fluid to treat systemic swelling and high blood pressure.
What are Diuretics?
Consent forms and care instructions belong to this document group.
Decoded, this root word represents "kidney," which forms the basis for terms describing cellular filtration units or kidney disease.
What is Nephr- / Nephro- (also accept Ren- / Reno-)?
These tiny, microscopic air sacs at the end of the respiratory tract are the exact site where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.
What are Alveoli?
A chronic, degenerative autoimmune disease where the body's immune system systematically destroys the myelin sheaths of central nerves.
Common cholesterol-lowering medications
What is Atorvastatin/Lipitor?
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