Medications
The Heart
Med Legal
Medical Terminology
200

This medication is contraindicated in trauma due to its increased risk of bleeding.

What is aspirin?

200

This large vessel brings deoxygenated blood to the heart from the lower parts of the body.

What is the inferior vena cava?

200

This is the written form of defamation. 

What is libel?

200
Closest to the point of attachment.

What is proximal?

400

Side effects of this medication include combativeness, nausea, and vomiting.

What is naloxone?

400

This is the last valve blood passes through as it exits the heart.

What is the aortic valve?

400

This is defined as unlawfully placing a person in fear of immediate bodily harm.

What is assault?

400

This is what is meant by the prefix "brady"

What is slower than normal?

600

The classification of activated charcoal.

What is adsorbent?

600

This chamber of the heart pushes blood to the lungs.

What is the right ventricle?

600

Conduct that constitutes a willful or reckless disregard for a duty or standard of care.

What is gross negligence?

600

The straightening of a joint.

What is extension?

800

This lung sound indicates the use of albuterol.

What is wheezing?

800

These vessels supply the myocardial tissue with oxygenated blood.

What are the coronary arteries?

800

A definitive sign of death, this is when blood settles to the lowest point of the body.

What is dependent lividity?

800

A body part or condition that exists on both sides of the midline.

What is bilateral?

1000
The dose for nitroglycerine paste.

What is 1 - 2 inches?

1000

Located in the right atrium, this is the primary pacemaker within the heart. 

What is the sinoatrial (SA) node?

1000

The study of ethics related to issues that arise in healthcare. 

What is bioethics?

1000

This is what is meant by the suffix "megaly". (i.e. hepatomegaly)

What is enlargement?