Medical Terminology
The CC during an office visit
What is Chief Complaint?
What is the epidermis?
A supplement generally recommended for people who live in the Pacific Northwest
What is Vitamin D3?
This "vital" routine procedure performed by MAs helps the provider assess heart health.
What is blood pressure?
The #1 way to prevent the spread of infection
What is hand hygiene?
The "A" in a SOAP note
What is assessment?
The most common artery used for taking a manual pulse on a patient.
What is the radial artery?
Drug class including ibuprofen, Aleve, and aspirin (abbr.)
What are NSAIDs?
The process of obtaining blood for testing
What is phlebotomy?
Masks, gowns, and gloves.
What is personal protective equipment?
What is the sig?
The tube that connects the kidney to the bladder
What is the ureter?
Administration route which involves dissolving a medication under the tongue.
What is sublingual?
A patient who is having trouble hearing may need this simple in-office procedure
What is an ear lavage?
The transmission of this type of pathogen increases when working with needles and sharps.
What is bloodborne?
The suffix meaning "pain"
What is -algia?
This part of the brain is responsible for voluntary muscle control, speech, motor function, judgment and reasoning
What is the frontal lobe?
The world's first antibiotic discovered in 1928 by Alexander Flemming derived from fungi.
What is penicillin?
Tissue sample collection
A variant of a bacterial mutation which does not respond to antibiotics
What is MRSA?
Word meaning inflammation of the brain
What is encephalitis
What is the right lower quadrant?
Risperidone (Risperdal), quetiapine (Seroquel), and olanzapine (Zyprexa) belong to this class of medications
What are antipsychotics?
This minor surgical procedure is used to treat boils, abscesses, and infected cysts (2 words)
What is incision and drainage?
This spore-producing bacillus is the most common cause of antibiotic diarrhea.
What is C. Diff?