Term for listening to the sounds of the heart, lungs, or abdomen with a stethoscope.
What is auscultation?
100
The medical term for voice box.
What is the larynx?
100
Part of the immune and endocrine system. Where T lymphocytes mature.
What is the thymus?
100
Lying on the posterior part of the body is being in the ______ position.
What is supine?
200
Inflammation of a vein.
What is phlebitis?
200
An increased level of cortisol would be found in patients with this endocrine syndrome caused by an adenoma in the adrenal cortex or in patients on corticosteroid drugs for long periods of time.
What is Cushing's syndrome?
200
Area where an inguinal hernia would appear.
What is the groin?
200
Neurotransmitter that is the body's own natural pain reliever.
What is endorphins?
200
Occurs in a woman when she laughs, coughs, or sneezes, causing her to involuntarily pass some urine.
What is stress incontinence?
300
Medical word for baldness.
What is alopecia?
300
Patients with mononucleosis would have increased titers for this virus.
What is Epstein-Barr virus?
300
Medical word for the tail bone.
What is the coccyx?
300
The body's continuing immune response and defense against pathogens it has seen before.
What is active immunity?
300
Irregular, reddened stretch marks on the skin that occur during pregnancy and become lighter and shiny as they heal as scar tissue.
What is striae?
400
Weak spot in the artery wall.
What is an aneurysm?
400
Procedure to treat an abscess.
What is an I&D?
400
Anatomical name for the shin bone.
What is the tibia?
400
Type of fracture of the wrist that could occur in a person who falls down onto an outstretched hand.
What is a collies fracture?
400
Condition in which excessive cerebrospinal fluid increases the intracranial pressure, distends the ventricles of the brain, and compresses brain tissue.
What is hydrocephalus?
500
Caused by a lack of oxygen to the fetal brain before or during delivery.
What is cerebral palsy?
500
Lab test that reports the percentage of red blood cells in a sample of blood.
What is HCT?
500
Eight small bones of the wrist joint.
What are the carpal bones?
500
Postmenopausal women may be more prone to this abnormal thinning of bone.
What is osteoporosis?
500
Herniation of the spinal cord and its covering membrane protruding to the outside of the body.