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Inherited disorder or exocrine glands resulting in thick, mucous secretions that do not drain normally?
CYSTIC FIBROSIS
Nosebleed?
EPISTAXIS
Acute viral infection in infants and children; characterized by obstruction of the larynx, barking cough, and stridor?
CROUP
Continuous high-pitched whistling sound heard when air is forced through a narrow space during inspiration or expiration?
WHEEZE
Strained, high-pitched, relatively loud sound made on inspiration; associated with obstruction of the larynx or trachea?
STRIDOR
Material expelled from the chest by coughing or clearing the throat?
SPUTUM
Tapping on a surface to determine the difference in the density of the underlying structure?
PERCUSSION
Fine crackling sound heard on auscultation (during inspiration) when there is fluid in the alveoli?
RALE (CRACKLE)
Voice box?
LARYNX
Muscle separating the chest and abdomen. it contracts and relaxes to make breathing possible?
DIAPHRAGM
Slit-like opening to the larynx?
GLOTTIS
Division of a lung?
LOBE
Openings through the nose carrying air into the nasal cavities?
NARES
Space between the folds of the pleura?
PLEURAL CAVITY
Lower portion of the lung?
BASE OF THE LUNG
Tip or uppermost portion of the lung?
APEX OF THE LUNG
Air sac in the lung?
ALVEOLUS
Lymphatic tissue in the nasopharynx?
ADENOIDS
Inner lining of the heart?
ENDOCARDIUM
Smallest blood vessel?
CAPILLARY
Contraction phase of the heartbeat?
SYSTOLE
Largest vein in the body?
VENA CAVA
One of two lower chambers of the heart?
VENTRICLE
Small vein?
VENULE
Central collecting region in the kidney?
RENAL PELVIS
An enzymatic hormone synthesized, stored, and secreted by the kidney; it raises blood pressure by influencing vasoconstriction (narrowing of blood vessels)?
RENIN
An electrolyte regulated in the blood and urine by the kidneys?
SODIUM (Na+)
Major nitrogenous waste product excreted in urine?
UREA
Tube leading from the urinary bladder to the outside of the body?
URETHRA
Tube leading from each kidney to the urinary bladder?
Ureter
A nitrogenous waste excreted in the urine?
URIC ACID
Hollow muscular sac that holds and stores urine?
URINARY BLADDER
Process of expelling urine?
URINATION
Emptying of urine from the urinary bladder?
VOIDING
Inflammation of many nerves?
NEURITIS
Pertaining to around the heart?
PERICARDIUM
Osteopathy?
DISEASE OF THE BONES
Cardiology?
STUDY OF THE HEART
In anatomic position, the palm of the hand faces in a blank direction?
VENTRAL
The lungs are found in the what cavity?
THORACIC CAVITY
The brain is found in a what cavity?
INFERIOR CAVITY
The knee is what to the hip?
DISTAL
Lower middle region below navel?
HYPOGASTRIC
Upper middle region above the stomach?
EPIGASTRIC
Plane dividing body into front and back?
FRONTAL
Region in upper back and chest?
THORACIC
Plane dividing the body into left and right?
SAGITTAL
Region near the navel?
UMBILICAL
Neck region?
CERVICAL
Plane dividing body into top and bottom?
TRANSVERSE
MCP?
METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT
Within a vein?
VENIPUNCTURE
Abnormal enlargement of the heart?
CARDIOMEGALY
In your patients chart, you see that he complains of peripatellar pain. This mean his pain is located?
AROUND THE KNEECAP
Your patient had a procedure done where a physician did a visual examination of his stomach with an instrument. This procedure is called a/an?
GASTROSCOPY
Your patient has an abnormally fast respiration rate. This is called?
TACHYPNEA
Which of these conditions describes an abnormal softening of cartilage?
CHONDROMALACIA
The patient has weakness of half of their body. This is called?
HEMIPLEGIA
Hardening?
SCLEROSIS
Above/upper?
SUPRA
Slow?
BRADY
Bad, painful, abnormal, difficult?
DYS
Inflammation?
Itis
Pain?
ALGIA
Abnormal enlargement
MEGALY
Deficient/under?
HYPO
Surgical removal?
ECTOMY
Before/in front of?
PRE
This is a chronic degenerative disease of the lover, often cause by alcoholism?
CIRRHOSIS
This is a sore or lesion of the lining of the stomach or duodenum caused by H. pylori bacteria?
ULCER
This condition is caused by acid and stomach content moving backward into the esophagus?
GERD (GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX DISEASE)
This structure closes down over the trachea during swallowing to prevent aspiration?
EPIGLOTTIS
This organ secretes bile, stores iron, sugar and vitamins?
LIVER
Inflammation of the appendix?
APPENDICITIS
Abnormal enlargement of the liver?
HEPATOMEGALY
Difficulty eating or swallowing?
DYSPAHGIA
Inflammation of the small intestine
ENTERITIS
Surgical removal of the stomach?
GASTRECTOMY
Duodenum?
PART OF SMALL INTESTINE
Mastication?
CHEWING
Palate?
ROOF OF MOUTH
Peristalsis?
CONTRACTION OF GI TRACT MUSCLES
Pharynx?
THROAT
Abnormal accumulation of fluid in the brain?
HYDROCEPHALUS
Congenital defect in the spinal column secondary to imperfect union of vertebral parts?
SPINA BIFIDA
Disruption in blood supply to the breain; a stroke?
CVA
Progressive brain disorder characterized by mental deterioration, personality changers, and functional impairment?
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
Chronic brain disorder characterized by seizure
EPILEPSY
This area of the brain controls balance and coordination?
CEREBELLUM
Which lobe of the cerebral cortex is associated with vision?
OCCIPITAL
These 3 layers of connective tissue surround the brain and spinal cord?
MENINGES
This fatty tissue that covers some neural axons. It functions to speed up transmission of neural impulses?
MYELIN
The space between the axon terminal of one nerve cell and the dendrites on another nerve cell is called?
SYNAPSE
This medical term means painful or abnormal menstrual periods?
DYSMENORRHEAH
Sperm are formed in the?
TESTICLES
This gland surrounds the ureter in men?
PROSTATE GLAND
When a fertilized egg implants anywhere other than the uterus, it is called a/an?
ECTOPIC PREGNANGY
Which surgical procedure leaves a man unable to father a child?
VASECTOMY
The muscular layer of the uterine wall is called?
MYOMETRIUM
Permanent cessation of menstrual cycles occurs with?
MENOPAUSE
An elevated PSA may indicate?
PROSTATE CANCER
When a single fertilized egg splits into two, it results in?
IDENTICAL TWINS
What term describes a surgical procedure to deliver a baby?
CAESARIAN
A condition where air gathers in the pleural cavity, causing a collapsed lung, is called?
PNEUMOTHORAX
Surgical removal of the entire lung is called?
PNEUMONECTOMY
Oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange takes place at these structures of the respiratory system?
ALVEOLI
Your patient has chest pain due to myocardial ischemia. This is called?
ANGINA
This condition is characterized by a local widening or dilation in an artery wall?
ANEURYSM
This condition is caused by inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart?
PERICARDITIS
The largest artery in the body is?
AORTA
These vessels carry blood away from the body tissues back toward the heart?
VEINS
RW
ROLLING WALKER
STG
SHORT TERM GOAL
AMB
AMBULATE
SOB?
SHORTNESS OF BREATH
Rx?
PRESCRIPTION
pt?
PATIENT
A crack in the skin is called a?
FISSURE
A burn that involves only the epidermal layer of the skin, with no blistering is called?
FIRST DEGREE BURN
Itis
INFLAMMATION
Ot/o
EAR
Erythem/o
REDNESS
Derm/o
SKIN
Enlargement of the spleen?
SPLENOMEGALY
Inflammation of the liver?
HEPATITIS
Surgical removal of the thyroid gland?
THYROIDECTOMY
ITIS
INFLAMMATION
SPLEN/O
SPLEEN
HYPO
BELOW
MEGALY
ENLARGEMENT
ECTOMY?
REMOVAL
DM?
DIABETES MELITUS
The endocrine organs of the female reproductive system is/are?
OVARIES
Rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosis are diseases where the body destroys itself. There are also known as?
AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS
This gland secretes thyroxine?
THYROID
This is an abdominal organ that is composed of lymphatic tissue?
SPLEEN
A fracture of the distal radius?
COLLES FRACTURE
When a fragment of broken bone protrudes from the skin?
OPEN FRACTURE
A fracture where the skin is intact; no open wound?
CLOSED FRACTURE
The bone bends and only breaks on one side?

Common in children.
GREENSTICK FRACTURE
Fracture caused by a disease of the bone?
PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE
What term indicates an injury to a ligament?
SPRAIN
Connects muscle to bone?
TENDON
This bone disease is characterized by decreased calcium, and makes the patient susceptible to fractures?
OSTEOPOROSIS
This type of arthritis is characterized by wear and tear of the articular cartilage?
OSTEOARTHRITIS
The strong fibrous tissue that covers the surface of long bone's is called?
PERIOSTEUM
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