Medical Etymology
Balance & Defense
Pump it Up!
Guts & Glands
Go With the Flow
Brain Teasers
Cellfie Time
Potpourri
100
Study of functional changes in the body caused by injury, disorder, or disease
PATHOPHYSIOLOGY
100
Terminology: decrease O2 in arterial blood
Hypoxemia
100
The term for the volume of blood ejected by a ventricle in one minute
CARDIAC OUTPUT
100
Which mineral decreases in association with increases in calcium?
Phosphate
100
Noncancerous enlargement of the prostate causing hesitancy, dribbling, and urinary frequency
BPH
100
Disease:
Nuchal rigidity, positive Kernig and Brudzinski sign
Meningitis
100
Trisomy of chromosome 21
Down's syndrome
100
Disease: Increase Intraocular pressure
Glaucoma
200
The cause, origin, or reason for a disease or medical condition
ETIOLOGY
200
Interpret:
pH: 7.25
CO2: 60
HCO3: 26
RESPIRATORY ACIDOSIS
200
This side of the heart in congestive heart failure, when affected, leads to fatigue, weight gain, peripheral edema, and jugular vein distention.
Right Sided CHF
200
Lab test that depicts hemoglobin exposure to glucose over the past three months
Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c)
200
Painful intercourse, usually caused by structural abnormalities in uterus
Dyspareunia
200
Pain that is caused by trauma or disease involving the peripheral nerves
Neuropathic pain
200
Proliferate rapidly, are invasive and destructive, spread to other sites
Malignant neoplasms
200
Disease: Barrel chest (air trapping and hyperinflation)
Emphysema
300
Illness from medical examination or treatment
IATROGENIC
300
Interpret:
pH: 7.23
CO2: 37
HCO3: 18
METABOLIC ACIDOSIS
300
This describes 3 Primary risk factors leading to thrombus formation:
Endothelial injury
Hypercoagulability
Venous stasis
VIRCHOW'S TRIAD
300
Disease: Low cortisol levels and is associated with poor stress response, weight loss and fatigue
Addison’s disease
300
Inflammation of the kidney's filtering units, causing dark, tea-colored urine (hematuria and proteinuria), high blood pressure, and edema
Glomerulonephritis
300
Autoimmune inflammation and demyelination of peripheral nerves, leading to ascending paralysis
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS)
300
Treatment modality:
Administering drugs like platinum and paclitaxel that reduce cell division (mitosis) of cancer cells
Chemotherapy
300
Most common type of psychotherapy used to treat alterations in mood and behaviors (examples: anorexia, bulimia)
CBT
400
A situation when there is a higher than expected number of cases of an infectious disease world-wide
PANDEMIC
400
Immunity developed by creating your own antibodies after being sick with an infection
ACTIVE NATURAL
400
Type of anemia that can develop from radiation/ chemotherapy leading to bone marrow suppresion/damage
APLASTIC ANEMIA
400
Disease characterized by skip lesions and can affect any part of the GI tract (most common in the end of small intestine to the beginning segment of the large intestine)
Crohn's disease
400
Kidney infection (ascending infection usually caused by E. coli). Symptoms include fever and back/flank pain.
Pyelonephritis
400
Progressive, neurodegenerative, autoimmune disorder with the loss of myelin sheaths in central nervous system
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
400
This preventive measure involves analyzing family history to assess the likelihood of a condition recurring when previous children/ family members have had congenital or inherited disorders, aiding in reproductive planning and prenatal diagnosis
Genetic counseling
400
This stage of pregnancy is when teratogens cause the greatest damage to the developing fetus
1st trimester (organogenesis)
500
Incubation phase of an infection, characterized by early, nonspecific symptoms that indicate the onset of a disease
PRODROMAL
500
This autoimmune type of hypersensitivity involves the formation of antigen–antibody complexes and includes conditions such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
TYPE III or
Immune complex hypersensitivity
500
A tear in the intimal lining, which allows blood flow between layers of the aortic wall
AORTIC DISSECTION OR
DISSECTING AORTIC ANEURYSM
500
Gallstone in the common bile duct (CBD)
Choledocholithiasis
500
A patient taking Thiazide diuretics will have what type of Acid-Base imbalance?
Metabolic Alkalosis
500
Signs and symptoms of Parkinson's (mnemonic)
TRAP
500
Medical care focused on managing symptoms and maintaining quality of life
Palliative care
500
Serious pregnancy complication where the placenta covers part or all of the cervix (bright red, painless vaginal bleed)
Placenta Previa