Urgent Care & Emergency Diagnoses
This sometimes acute, sometimes chronic symptom is a natural reflex for your body to clear out your airways
What is a cough?
Another name for the nostrils
What are the nares?
The humerus, the ulna, and the radius all meet here
What is the elbow?
This large sensory organ is made up of layers
What is the skin?
The tympanic membrane is found inside of this
What is the ear?
This pain can be life-threatening or just a classic symptom of heartburn
What is chest pain?
These are known as nephrolithiasis or renal calculi
What are kidney stones?
You're getting surgery for a torn meniscus. This joint is being repaired
What is the knee.
This organ has four major lobes, the frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal
What is the brain?
These tiny air sacs are found at the end of the bronchioles
What is alveoli?
You'll quickly recover from this symptom that may happen when there is a sudden, temporary drop in the amount of blood to your brain
What is syncope or fainting?
Sometimes called the breastbone
What is the sternum?
This fibrous tissue connects the calf muscles to the heel bone and is named after a Greek hero
What is the Achilles tendon?
The hypoglossal nerves control the muscles of this digestive system organ
What is the tongue?
The external part of the human ear
What is the auricle?
This pain is sometimes described by where it is located, such as the right upper quadrant
What is abdominal?
Also known as the cholecyst
What is the gallbladder?
The bones in this body part include the scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, and the capitate.
What is the hand?
The islets of Langerhans are groups of cells that produce insulin and glucagon in this organ
What is the pancreas?
The type of tissue that forms the outer surface of organs
What is epithelial?
Fever develops when this brain structure responds to infection or inflammation
What is the hypothalamus?
Also known as cerumen
What is earwax?
This upper back muscle got its name from a four-sided polygon shape
What is the trapezoid?
This non-vital organ is divided into 5-subparts, three of which are the cardia, the fundus, and the antrum
What is the stomach?
The sensory organ that contains the choroid and the uvea.
What is the eye?