Latin/Greek Medical Terms
The latin prefix "semi"
What is half?
An organism that eats another organism for food or nutrients.
What is a predator?
Worn on the hands that prevent direct patient contact and the spread of disease.
What are gloves?
You can touch patients as a medical explorer. T/F
What is False?
A medical instrument used to hear internal noises such as heartbeat and breathing.
What is a Stethoscope
A Greek root meaning "heart"
What is "Cardio"?
A biological process commonly used by plants to create their own food. Produces sugars and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
A code/alarm indicating a patient has gone into cardiac or respiratory rest. That patient is going to become very popular very quickly.
What is code blue?
Not one of the regular rotations you can sign up for as a medical explorer. Options: NICU, Urgent Care, OR/Surgery, Oncology
What is OR/Surgery?
A piece of equipment used to collect waste from bedridden patients.
What is a bedpan?
3 words containing the Greek prefix "auto" (Meaning self, same)
Answers may vary
The genetic code for every living organism.
What is DNA?
A type of consent in which the procedure is explained to the patient and they actively accept or refuse it.
What is informed consent?
You can still sign up for rotations for the next month if you miss the monthly meeting (assuming you do not have an adequate excuse to miss the meeting). T/F
What is False?
What a key component in an MRI machine?
What is a magnet/magnetism?
Means "Erythrocyte" in English
What is "Red Cell?"
The element found in every organic molecule.
What is carbon?
What is HIPAA?
You must wear/bring these to every rotation and meeting!
What are ID badge and scrubs? (Some answers may vary)
An apparatus used to administer fluids, nutrients, or medication directly into the bloodstream.
What is an IV?
The abbreviation NPO stands for...
Nothing by Mouth (nil per os).
A type of population growth curve when a population has unlimited access to food, no predators or competition, and can reproduce easily.
What is an exponential growth curve?
The correct process of donning Personal Protective Equipment (Hint: Four pieces of equipment, Goggles Gloves Gown Mask, but in what order?)
What are Gown, Mask, Goggles, Gloves?
The year our chapter of Medical Explorers was founded.
What is 1968?
What is density?