Medical Terminology
This prefix means heart.
What is Cardio-?
This orange vegetable is often carved into a jack-o’-lantern.
What is a pumpkin?
Asthma affects this body system.
What is the respiratory system?
This scientist discovered penicillin in 1928.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
Leeches were used to remove this from patients.
What is blood?
“Neuro-” refers to this part of the body.
What is the nerves or brain?
People wear these to disguise themselves on Halloween.
What are costumes?
A stroke occurs in this organ.
What is the brain?
The stethoscope was invented to help doctors listen to this organ.
What is the heart (and lungs)?
Before anesthesia, doctors used this to knock people out.
What is alcohol or physical restraint?
The suffix “-itis” means this type of condition.
What is inflammation?
This flying creature is both spooky and used in medical research.
What is a bat?
Diabetes is a disorder involving this organ.
What is the pancreas?
The discovery of this vaccine helped eradicate smallpox.
What is the smallpox vaccine?
This skull-drilling procedure was once believed to release evil spirits.
What is Trepanation?
The term “hypoglycemia” means this condition.
What is low blood sugar?
Halloween originated from this ancient Celtic festival.
What is samhain?
Hypertension is a disease of this system.
What is the circulatory system?
X-rays were discovered accidentally by this physicist.
Who was Wilhelm Roentgen?
Early surgeons used this to “balance” bodily fluids—by draining blood.
What is Bloodletting?
“Dermatology” is the study of this.
What is the skin?
In the 1800s, this fruit was used for carving before pumpkins.
What are turnips?
Osteoporosis causes weakening of this system.
What is the skeletal system?
This woman was the founder of modern nursing.
Who was Florence Nightingale?
This early painkiller came from the poppy plant.
What is Opium?