Medical Vocab

Part One

100

Trachea

What is the windpipe?

200

Deglutition

What is swallowing?

300

Pleura

What is the double-layered membrane surrounding each lung?

400

Viscera

What is internal organs?

500

Heparin

What is the anticoagulant found in blood and tissue cells?

Part Two

100

Pharynx

What is the throat?

200

Diaphragm

What is the muscle separating the chest and abdomen?

300

Accommodation

What is the normal adjustment of the eye to focus on objects?

400

Systole

What is the contraction phase of the heartbeat?

500

Sphincter

What is a circular ring of muscle that constricts a passage or closes a natural opening?

Part Three

100

Patent

What is open?

200

Hernia

What is the protrusion of an organ or part through the tissues and muscles that normally contain it?

300

Prepuce

What is the foreskin?

400

Menarche

What is the beginning of the first menstrual period and ability to reproduce?

500

Sinoatrial Node

What is the pacemaker of the heart?

Part Four

100

Larynx

What is the voicebox?

200

Sebum

What is the oily substance produced by sebaceous glands?

300

Refraction

What is the bending of light rays by the cornea?

400

Micturition

What is the process of expelling urine?

500

Lymph

What is thin, watery fluid found within the lymphatic vessels and collected from tissues throughout the body?

Part Five

100

Aorta

What is the largest artery in the body?

200

Plasma

What is the liquid portion of blood?

300

Cirrhosis

What is chronic liver disease?

400

Parturition

What is the act of giving birth?

500

Neurotransmitter

What is a chemical messenger released at the end of a nerve cell?