Names of Medical Professions
Licensed medical professional who diagnoses, treats, and helps prevent diseases, injuries, and health conditions in animals.
What is a veterinarian?
This common viral infection of the upper respiratory tract is often called the "flu."
What is influenza?
This common tool is placed in a patient's mouth or ear to check their body temperature.
What is a thermometer?
This color ribbon is worn during Red Ribbon Week to show a commitment to living a drug-free life.
What is red?
This universal first-aid technique uses chest compressions and rescue breaths to help save someone in cardiac arrest.
What is CPR?
Health professionals who are experts in nutrition and the human diet, blending scientific research, nutrition, behavioral science, and social science to promote health, prevent disease, and shape the dietary choices of healthy and sick people.
What is a dietitian?
his condition causes inflammation and swelling of the airways in the lungs, leading to wheezing and shortness of breath.
What is asthma?
Doctors and nurses use this tool to listen to a patient's heartbeat and breathing.
What is a stethoscope?
Red Ribbon Week is the nation's largest and longest-running awareness campaign for this topic.
What is drug prevention (or being drug-free)?
The universal blood donor type
What is type O negative?
Licensed healthcare provider and medication expert who ensures the safe, effective, and proper use of prescription and over-the-counter drugs
What is a pharmacist?
This common joint injury occurs when a ligament is stretched or torn, frequently affecting ankles or wrists.
What is a sprain?
This tool uses an inflatable cuff around the arm to measure blood pressure.
What is a sphygmomanometer/blood pressure cuff?
Red Ribbon Week takes place annually during this month.
The amount of chambers in the heart
What is four?
Licensed medical doctor with specialized training at the intersection of mental health and the legal system
What is a forensic psychiatrist?
This condition occurs when blood vessels break under the skin without breaking the skin's surface, creating a dark mark.
What is a bruise (or contusion)
This small device is placed on a patient's finger to measure the oxygen level in their blood.
What is a pulse oximeter?
Red Ribbon Week was created to honor Enrique "Kiki" Camarena, who worked for this federal law enforcement agency.
What is the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration)?
Meaning of medical prefix angio-
What is vessel?
Trained healthcare professional who diagnoses, manages, and treats hearing, balance, and other auditory neural system disorders.
What is an audiologist?
This autoimmune disease occurs when the body's immune system mistakenly attacks its own tissues, often causing a characteristic butterfly-shaped rash across the face.
What is lupus?
Doctors use this lighted tool to look inside a patient's ears for infections or fluid.
What is an otoscope?
The year the campaign for Red Ribbon Week started
What is 1985?
The root region on the inner side of each lung where the main bronchi, blood vessels, and nerves enter and leave.
What is the hilum? (Or Hilus)