Diagnostic Tests & Procedures
Surgical Procedures & Therapeutics
Therapeutic Drug Treatments
Common Medical Abbreviations
Diseases & Conditions
100

This is a variety of any tests that measure the ability of a patient's blood to clot properly.

What is cougulation test?

100

The transferring of blood/ or blood componenets like RBC's from donor to recipient.

What is Blood Transfusion?

100

A medication used to prevent/or allviate angina.

What is antianginal?

100

The abbreviaton meaning "Blood Pressure".

What is BP?

100

This disorder involves a deficiency of red blood cells or hemoglobin in the body.

What is Anemia?

200

The rhythm like throbbing generated by contraction of the heart.

What is Pulse?

200

The replacing of a diseased bone-marrows cell in a patient with a healthy bone marrow cellls from a donor.

What is Bone Marrow transplant?

200

The agent that is used to alleviate or prevent cardia arrhythmia.

What is antiarrhythmic?

200

The abbreviaton meaning "Do not resucitate".

What is DNR?

200

This disorder is marked by excessive desctruction of RBC's.

What is Hemolyticanemia?

300

A series of tests that analyze the individuals chemical elements of the blood.

What is blood chemistry profile?

300

The surgical procedure that removes plaque form the lining of an artery.

What is Endarterecotomy?

300

The agent that is used to prvent the formation of blood clots (known as a blood thinner).

What is Anticoagulant?
300

The abbreviaton meaning "Hyperextension".

What is HTN?

300

This disorder is when bone marrow doesn't produce enough RBC's, WBC's, and platelets.

What is aplastic anemia?

400

The machine that records continuously cardia rhythms.

What is Holter Monitor?

400

The process of grafiting a living heart to a patient from a donor who was clinically brain dead but is on life support.

What is Heart Transplantation?

400

The medicaiton used to counteract high blood pressure.

What is Antihypertensive?

400

The abbreviaton meaning "Echocardiogram/multigated acquisition".

What is MUGA?

400

This is a genertic disorder where the body produces less hemoglobin than normal.

What is Thalassmia?

500

The recording of the electrical activity of the heart.

What is electrocardiogram?

500

An eletrical devide implanted in the chest/abdomen to control abnormal cardiac rhythms via electrical discharges.

What is Pacemaker?

500

The medicaiton that help dissolve blood clots.

What is Thrombolytic?

500

The abbreviaton meaning "Myocardial Infarction".

What is MI?

500

The balloon-like dilation chape of a blood vessel (usually in an artery).

What is aneurysm?