By the Numbers
Bilateral has this covered. A play on words.
What is 2?
If you are facing to the front.
What is Anterior?
Describe where the epigastric area is on the human body.
What is the area above the umbilical region?
Name the 3 structures involved in Dermatology.
What are skin, hair, and nails?
Basal Cell Carcinoma
What is BCC?
If you only have half?
What is hemi-?
If your lying face down.
You are in a prone position.
The spleen is in this quadrant.
What is LUQ?
Another name for the skin.
What is integument?
A biopsy by any other name.
What is BX?
A dreaded disease that will keep you at home.
What is mono? (sorry I had to use it, I've had it)
Something to remember - this is the portion of your arm is from the elbow down to the fingertips.
What is distal?
The only major abdominopelvic internal organ found outside the peritoneum.
What is the kidney?
An inflammatory skin disease with pustules that rupture and become crusted.
What is impetigo?
She required an incision and drainage when she saw her physician.
What is an I & D?
If you are without, you have none.
What is nulli-?
If you are laying down, looking at the ceiling, you are in this position.
What is supine?
Opposites don't always attract.
Distal / Proximal
Inferior / Superior
Deep / superficial
Another name for dead tissue.
What is necrosis?
His road rash required a split-thickness skin graft. Identify the abbreviation.
What is STSG?
It could be either of these. You have too many.
What is multi- or poly-? (many)
A Baker's Cyst is typically in this area.
In the back of the knee (the popliteal area)
The only horizontal plane in the body.
What is the transverse plane?
A chronic inflammatory condition consisting of crusty papules forming patches with circular borders.
What is psoriasis?
Her malignant melanoma was examined. What is the abbreviation for malignant melanoma.
What is an MM?