General
In 1816, French physician Rene Laennec fashioned the first one of these instruments from a hollow, wooden tube
What is a stethoscope?
The type of doctor who diagnoses, treats, and prevents problems in a patient's mouth, focusing on the teeth and gums
What is a dentist?
The scientific study of the morphology of the human body
What is anatomy?
The hospital code when a patient is experiencing cardiopulmonary arrest (Heart attack)
What is Code BLUE?
The common name for the Escherichia coli bacterium
What is E. Coli?
From the Latin, this 4-letter hospital code word means "immediately"
What is "STAT"?
The type of care-provider who specializes in treating foot, ankle, and leg-related injuries
What is a podiatrist?
The body part in which blood mixes with air
What are the lungs?
The code for when there is a fire emergency in the hospital
What is Code RED?
The disease that accounts for 1 in 4 deaths of all Americans (Leading killer disease)
What is Heart Disease?
The name of the oath doctors take to swear to treat the ill to the best of their ability
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
The type of care-provider who cares for sick and injured patients in emergency rooms, ambulances, and other fast-paced medical environments
What is an emergency medical technician?
The part of our body that makes up approx. 14% of our weight
What are bones?
The hospital code for potential/current security threats (violent or holding hostages)
What is Code WHITE?
The common name for the Rhinovirus, the most frequent carrier of viral infection in humans?
What is the Common Cold?
The two types of blood pressure
What are systolic and diastolic blood pressures?
The type of doctor who studies the causes and preventions of diseases relating to blood
What is a hematologist?
The side of the human brain that is responsible for self-recognition
What is the right side of the brain?
The code for child (patient) abductions
What is Code PINK?
The type of diabetes in which the pancreas is not able to maintain proper insulin levels soon after birth
What is Type I Diabetes?
The abrupt loss of heart function in a person who may or may not have been diagnosed with heart disease
What is cardiopulmonary arrest
The type of doctor who draws blood for donations, transfusions, tests, and research
What is a phlebotomist?
The human body's biggest organ
What is the skin?
The code for disasters and mass casualty situations within a hospital
What is Code Yellow?
An extremely rare degenerative brain disease found in cannibalistic human tribes that is caused by consuming contaminated brain tissue that contains infectious proteins (prions)?
What is Kuru?