Medical Abbreviations
CPR
This organelle, responsible for producing ATP, is also known as the "powerhouse of the cell".
What is the mitochondria?
What is 1976?
This suffix means "removal or excision".
What is -ectomy ?
The West Bank is one Palestinian Territory. Name the other one.
Where is Gaza?
HIV
What is Human Immunodeficiency Virus?
This cellular process is where cells divide into two identical copies.
What is mitosis?
HOSA Bowl became an official event in this year.
What is 1985?
This term refers to high blood pressure.
What is hypertension?
This high-grossing movie takes place on the moon of the planet Pandora.
What is Avatar?
EKG
What is an Electrocardiogram?
This large, dome-shaped muscle plays a crucial role in breathing by contracting and expanding the chest cavity.
What is the diaphragm?
This HOSA event has teams of 2-6 members plan a local community campaign surrounding a selected topic that will impact their community as a whole.
What is community awareness?
This term refers to low blood sugar.
What is hypoglycemia?
"Why do I have a third leg it looks like a _____"
What is a Peenar?
MRI
What is magnetic resonance imaging?
This is a condition in which a part of your body swells as a result of too much fluid being trapped in your body's tissues.
What is an edema?
This person, on the HOSA Board of Directors, is the HOSA Western Region Local Advisor.
Who is Garth McFarland?
This term refers to difficulty swallowing.
What is dysphagia?
This city is the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
Where is Abu Dhabi?
CVA
What is a cerebral vascular accident?
There are 2 phases of the cardiac cycle that are measured when you take your blood pressure. Name either.
What is the systole?
or
What is the diastole?
The second national HOSA conference was held here in 1979.
Where is Cherry Hill, New Jersey?
This term refers to the prenatal procedure that involves extracting a small amount of amniotic fluid from the uterus through a perforation.
What is amniocentesis?
This massive statue in Rio de Janeiro stands atop the Corcovado mountain and was named one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2007.
What is Christ the Redeemer? (Cristo Redentor if they know portuguese)