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A person who is paralyzed in all 4 limbs.
What is a quadriplegic?
A scientific tool used to see very small organisms such as bacteria.
What is a microscope?
A vaccine stimulates the body to produce these to attack a foreign invader such as a virus.
What is an antibody or what are antibodies?
The term for someone who stops breathing while sleeping.
What is apnea?
A state or society where there is great suffering or injustice such as the worlds of the Hunger Games or 1984.
What is a dystopia or what is dystopian?
A cell with a very large nucleus
What is a megakaryocyte?
The examination of a dead body to determine the cause of death.
What is postmortem?
A children's toy with three wheels
What is a tricycle?
A person who is only half conscious of what is going on is
What is semi-conscious?
The term for the study of blood and blood diseases.
What is hematology?
The perimeter of a circle.
What is the circumference?
1/1000 of a liter
What is a milliliter?
A medical device used to stop fibrillation of the heart.
What is a defibrillator?
This type of doctor treats medical issues related to bones.
What is an orthopedist or an orthopedic surgeon?
Outside of what is ordinary
What is extraordinary?
An injection under the skin is called
What is subcutaneous?
A type of bacteria that is antibiotic resistant and very difficult to treat is sometimes known as this.
What is a superbug?
A pregnancy that is displaced and lodged in a woman's fallopian tube instead of her uterus.
What is an ectopic pregnancy?
To carry away from.
What is efferent?
A membrane that allows liquid or gas to pass through it is called.
What is permeable?
The term for before birth.
What is antenatal?
The term that indicates that a medication or treatment could cause harm to a patient and therefor should be used with great caution or not used at all.
What is contraindicated?
A medical procedure that allows a doctor to look inside the body with a flexible tube that has a camera and a light.
What is endoscopy?
Something which causes great pain or suffering.
What is an affliction?
The term for something enclosed within a cyst.
What is encyst?