Vital Signs
This is measured in Celsius.
What is temperature?
Pt
What is “patient”?
This professional fills medicine prescriptions.
The last brain lobe to mature.
What is the frontal lobe?
Name at least three elements in biomolecules.
Measured in beats per minute
What is heart rate?
C/O
What is “complains of”?
The number of years (approximately) it takes to become a doctor.
What is 8 years (4 years bachelor's degree, 4 years medical school)?
The series of wave-like muscle contractions that guide food down the esophagus.
What is Peristalsis?
These molecules catalyze (speed up) chemical reactions.
What are enzymes?
Measured using a pulse oximeter.
What is oxygen saturation?
PE
What is physical exam?
This professional helps people with difficulties speaking or swallowing.
What is a speech therapist?
Identify where gas exchange occurs in the lungs.
The alveoli
What are carbohydrates (monosaccharides), proteins (amino acids), lipids (fatty acids, glycerol), and nucleic acids (nucleotides)?
Measured with a sphygmomanometer.
What is blood pressure?
BID
What is “twice a day”?
This professional takes care of people with diabetes and other hormone problems.
What is an endocrinologist?
Name at least three functions of the skeletal system.
What are 1) providing structure, 2) facilitating movement, 3) protecting organs, 4) storing minerals and fat, and 5) producing blood cells?
The three subatomic particles.
What are Neutrons, Protons, and Electrons?
Vital signs are a quick determination of the patient’s ability to maintain this characteristic of living things.
ROM
What is “range of motion”?
These professionals can work in schools (name at least two).
What are nurses, speech therapists, occupational therapists, and psychologists?
These systems work together to maintain blood pressure.
What are the nervous, circulatory and muscular systems?
This molecule is the main component of the cell membrane.
What are phospholipids?