Anatomy & Physiology
This movement decreases the angle between two body parts.
What is flexion?
This healthcare professional specializes in preventing, recognizing, and treating athletic injuries.
What is an athletic trainer?
The largest organ of the human body.
What is the skin?
This device is used to measure body temperature.
What is a thermometer?
This anatomical position is the standard reference position in which the body stands upright with palms facing forward.
What is anatomical position?
Rotating your forearm so your palm faces downward is called this movement.
What is pronation?
The acronym RICE stands for Rest, Ice, Compression, and this final treatment.
What is elevation?
This skin pigment helps protect the body from UV radiation.
What is melanin?
This nurse specializes in caring for newborns and premature infants in the NICU.
What is a neonatal nurse?
This healthcare professional acts as a translator between healthcare providers and insurance companies.
What is a medical coder?
Understanding someone's walk is called this.
What is a gait?
This ligament is commonly torn in athletes who rapidly change direction, especially in sports like soccer and basketball.
What is the ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament)?
SPF stands for this.
What is sun protective factor?
This advanced practice nurse can diagnose illnesses, order tests, and prescribe medications in many states.
What is a Nurse Practitioner (NP)?
This equipment provides electrical shocks to restore a normal heart rhythm during cardiac emergencies.
What is an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)?
Looking up at the ceiling is an example of this movement of the neck.
What is extension (or hyperextension)?
This healthcare professional specializes in diagnosing and treating injuries and disorders of the musculoskeletal system, often performing surgery.
What is an orthopedic surgeon?
This condition causes red, itchy, inflamed patches of skin and is also known as atopic dermatitis.
What is eczema?
This nurse specializes in helping patients manage and understand cancer treatments.
What is an oncology nurse?
Shin splints most commonly involve pain along this bone.
What is the tibia?
Turning your head from side to side as if saying "no" primarily occurs in this plane.
What is the transverse plane?
This injury is commonly called a "pulled hamstring."
What is a hamstring strain?
This autoimmune skin condition causes rapid buildup of skin cells, creating thick, scaly plaques.
What is psoriasis?
The ABCs of nursing assessment.
The pulse point most commonly used during CPR is this artery, located on each side of the neck.
What is the carotid artery?