Medical Abbreviations
The medical abbreviation for this phrase is DOA.
What is dead on arrival?
The medical term for this is edema.
What is swelling?
Career that involves injury rehabilitation.
Myocardial infarction.
What is a heart attack?
This woman is noted as the founder of the Red Cross.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
The medical abbreviation for this term is STAT.
What is immediately?
The medical term for this is contusion.
What is a bruise?
Career that involves taping or bracing before athletic events.
What is an athletic trainer?
Hypertension.
What is high blood pressure?
China has popularized this healthcare specialty.
What is acupuncture?
The medical abbreviation for this phrase is BID.
What is two times a day?
The medical term for this is sternutation.
What is sneezing?
Career that involves taking vital signs and chief complaint from patients and gives info to the primary care physician.
What is a medical assistant? (Nurses also do this)
Hypothyroidism.
What is low thyroid?
Further in history people believed this was the cause of illness.
What is God/higher power?
The medical abbreviation for this phrase is QID.
What is four times a day?
The medical term for this is singultus.
What is hiccuping?
A career that involves taking blood.
What is a phlebotomy?
A lifelong condition where the pancreas makes little or no insulin, which leads to high blood sugar levels.
What is diabetes? (TYPE 1)
The bubonic plague occurred in this age.
What is the middle ages?
The medical abbreviation for this term is CPR.
What is cardiopulmonary resuscitation?
The medical term for this is horripilation.
What are goosebumps?
Career that involves adjusting bones with high velocity thrusts.
What is chiropractic?
Loss of cognitive function, to such an extent that it interferes with a person's daily life.
What is dementia?
In this century antibiotics were first created.