The Brain
The Eyes
The Ears
Conditions and Illness
Medical Terminology
100

Medical name for a nerve cell

What is a Neuron?


100

Colored part of the eye

What is the iris?


100

Medical term for earwax

What is cerumen?


100

Persistent worrying or feeling of fear

What is anxiety?

100

The 3 combining forms for ear

What is ot/o , aur/o , auricul/o

200

The CNS consists of

What is the Brain and Spinal Cord?


200

White outer layer of eye

What is sclera?


200

The vibrating eardrum is called

What is Tympanic membrane?


200

Pink eye is the common term for this medical word

What is Conjunctivitis?


200

Suffix meaning visual condition

What is -opia ?

Example: myopia, diplopia, hyperopia

300

Major brain part controls balance & coordination the most

What is The cerebellum?


300

The occipital lobe in the brain connects to this eye nerve

What is the optic nerve?


300

The Temporal lobe connects to this nerve in the ear

What is the cochlear nerve?


300

Otitis Media affects what ear parts?

What is Tympanic membrane and Ossicles?


300

The combining for encephal/o means

What is Brain?

400

The Cerebrum consist of these lobes

What is temporal, occipital, frontal, parietal?

400

Cataracts affects this part of the eye

What is the lens?


400

The names of the 3 ossicles

What is malleus, incus, and stapes ?


400

Eye pressure with eventual vision loss, commonly seen in untreated DM

What is Glaucoma?


400

presby- means

What is old?

500

The common screening tool for depression

What is PHQ-2/PHQ-9 ?

500

Color vision screening tool to detect color blindness

What is the Ishihara test ?


500

This part is activated when swimming, plane take offs, and going up and down hills

What is the eustachian tube?


500

The abbreviation, TIA for a stroke, stands for

What is Transient Ischemic Attack ?


500

The combining form myring/o refers to 

What is tympanic membrane?