Quiz Word Surgery
Break down endocarditis: Identify its unique prefix meaning "within/inside", its cardiac root, and its suffix meaning inflammation.
What are prefix endo-, root card-, and suffix -itis? (Expected meaning: Inflammation within the heart)
An emergency chart states a patient has "uncontrolled HTN and DMII". Translate these two incredibly common chronic diseases.
What are Hypertension (high blood pressure) and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
A crucial golden rule of medicine: When determining an injury on the "left" or "right" side, these directions always
refer to whose perspective?
What is the patient's perspective?
If an MA notes that a patient's nose is located superior to their mouth, they are stating that the nose is located in this directional relationship.
What is upward or above the mouth?
While the majority of major body cavities are located on the anterior side of the body, this specific fluid-filled cavity housing the spinal cord is located entirely on the non-anterior (dorsal) side.
What is the spinal cavity?
When evaluating the term myocardium, the prefix is "N/A." Identify the muscle root and the structural suffix that means "tissue or structure".
Translate this quiz phrase into plain English: "Pt.'s chronic HA and fatigue likely secondary to HTN and/or hyperglycemia.
What is "The patient's long-term headache and tiredness are probably caused by high blood pressure and/or high blood sugar."?
A clean slice directly down the midline of the body that separates it into perfectly equal right and left halves is known as this specific plane.
What is the midsagittal plane (or median plane)?
On the quiz matching section, the terms ventral and dorsal are defined by these two common orientation terms.
What are anterior (toward the front) and posterior (toward the back)?
On your exam, you will be asked to identify where organs sit. Identify the two separate cavities where the stomach and the lungs reside.
What are the abdominal cavity (stomach) and the pleural cavity (lungs)?
A patient with excess cerebrospinal fluid in the brain is diagnosed with hydrocephalus. Identify the roots that literally translate to "water" and "head".
What are hydro- and cephalus?
A 73-year-old male presents to the ER. Initial assessment logs him as afebrile with mild tachypnea. Define both of these vital sign conditions.
What is "without a fever" and "rapid/fast breathing"?
A CT scan takes images along a horizontal plane, slicing the body into superior and inferior sections. This is known as what type of plane?
What is the transverse plane?
When moving horizontally across the torso, directional terms moving toward the midsagittal midline are called medial, while pathways moving away from the midline are called this.
What is lateral?
To access and treat a patient's uterus or urinary bladder, a surgical team must cut directly into this specific sub-cavity.
What is the pelvic cavity?
If a surgeon performs a surgical puncture to withdraw fluid from the membrane surrounding the lungs, they are performing this
What is pleurocentesis? (Root pleuro- = lung lining/membrane; Suffix -centesis = surgical puncture to remove fluid)
A patient presentation reads: "Pt C/O chest pain & SOB. Dx: AMI. Order: EKG STAT." Give the full, un-abbreviated medical terms for Dx and AMI.
What are Diagnosis and Acute Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack)?
A coronal plane slice divides the human body into these two structural sections.
What are anterior (ventral) and posterior (dorsal)?
When mapping out a limb like the arm or leg, moving closer to the point of attachment or joint is proximal, while moving further away from the joint down the limb is this.
What is distal?
Translate this clinical case drop into common English: "The patient fell and is reporting deep pain in the pelvic region with numbness extending inferiorly to the left femoral region."
What is "The patient fell and has deep pain in their lower belly/hip area with numbness spreading downward into their left thigh."?
In the term hyperlipidemia, you have a prefix, a root, and a suffix. Identify what the prefix hyper- and the root lipid- tell you about the patient's blood panel.
What is an elevated or above-normal amount of fat/cholesterol?
An intake note states a patient is displaying acrocyanosis. Based purely on your medical word parts, describe exactly what you visually see on the patient.
What is a blue discoloration of the extremities (hands and feet)?
Geometric definition: A transverse plane cut must always run in this exact orientation relative to the longest axis of the organ or body part being sliced.
What is perpendicular?
Solve this anatomical directional riddle: Name a single facial feature that sits superior to the chin, inferior to the scalp, medial to the elbow, and lateral to the right eye.
What is the left eye?
Although medical terminology clearly tells us what surgical procedure is happening, it fails to say where. Medical teams use strict "timeouts" and site-marking protocols to prevent this terrifying class of medical negligence.
What is wrong-site surgery (or operating on the wrong organ/side/limb)?