Medical Terminology or

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Medical Terminology or

• How to sound like a healthcare wizard

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• Put this sign on the patients door prior to Sx

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• What is NPO? (nothing by mouth to avoid
  aspirating food during anesthesia)

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• Premature babies go to this hospital service

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• What is NICU or neonatal intensive care unit?

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• Lee, Sherman and Custer all have this in common

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• All had the rank of general

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• A very common routine blood test

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• What is a CBC or complete blood count?

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• If youre Bx comes back positive, youll need to
  see this specialist

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• What is an oncologist (Bx is biopsy and if
  carcinoma, see the MD for Tx c chemoTx and
  Radiation, possibly Sx)

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• He was rude to her at music awards
  dinner/presentation two years ago

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• Who is Kanye West/Taylor Swift?

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• Good cholesterol

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• What is HDL or high density lipoproteins? (LDLs
  are the bad cholesterol)

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• It used to be called emphysema

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• What is COPD or chronic obstructive pulmonary
  disorder? (smokers lung)

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• The procedure for removing one of ones ovaries

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• What is a unilateral oophorectomy?

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• Neutering a male is surgically called this

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• What is a bilateral orchectomy?

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• If youre constipated, order this

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• MOM (milk of magnesia) Most post op patients are
  constipated from the anesthetics which slows down
  their bowel movements

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• Youll be grateful to your doctor if he gives you
  BRP

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• What are bathroom privileges?

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• You need K in your diet to help your muscles and
  heart function

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• What is Potassium (k)

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• Careful using syringes around pts with ARC

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• Aids related complex (a group of physical
  symptoms associated with AIDS, like skin rashes,
  lung infections, etc.)

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• Youre in Piccadilly Circus and Soho where are
  you?

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• London

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• If something is located more in the midline of
  the body than something else, it is said to be
  this

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• What is medial?

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• One yr of nursing training might get you this
  license and degree

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• What is an LPN or LVN (licensed practical or
  licensed vocational nurse)? Half an RN

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• Four ways to administer medications
  (abbreviations only)

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• IV, IM, PO, TD,SC (transdermally as in a patch on
  the skin), PR (by the rectum), SL (sublingual, or
  under the tongue) also by inhalation, SC is
  subcuticularly or under the skin

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• It means at bedtime

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• H.s. or hour of sleep

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• It means take after meals

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• P.C. post cibum after food. A. C. means
  before meal

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• Youre being rowed on a gondola where are you?

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• Venice, Italy on the canals its a unique canal
  row boat and the gondolier sings arias from opera

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• It is the charting abbreviation meaning the pts
  measurements are average as expected

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• What is WNL or within normal limits

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• Its what you put on an open surgical or
  traumatic wound, abbreviation only

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• A DSD or dry sterile dressing

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• It is and abbreviation for all of the information
  a patient reports to a doctor at the first visit
  describing their chief complaint and medical
  background, allergies, prior treatment, prior
  surgery, medical conditions, etc.

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• What is Hx or medical history

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• If you have a purulent, suppurative abscess.
  This abbreviation is for the procedure you would
  do to begin Tx.

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• What is an I D or incision and drainage?

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• It is the abbreviation of the fluid around the
  brain and spinal cord

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• What is the CSF or cerebrospinal fluid?

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• The universal anti-inflammatory medication is
  abbreviated like this

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• What is ASA or acetyl salicylic acid aka aspirin

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• This bear is actually not a bear but a rodent
  youll find him in the Out Back (Australian bush
  country, wilderness) eating eucalyptus leaves

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• What is a Koala?

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• Three abbreviations for consequences of an
  embolus ( a fragment of a thrombus or clot)
  migrating from the clot to vital locations
  causing death

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• What are a CVA, MI or PE also known as strokes,
  heart attacks and pulmonary embolisms
  CVAcerebral vascular accident MImyocardial
  infarction PEpulmonary embolism all can be
  fatal!

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• A procedure performed on pus to determine in the
  lab what bacteria are growing in it invented by
  Dr.Robert Koch and involves growing the bacteria
  and seeing which antibiotic kills it.

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• What is a C S or culture and sensitivity,
  usually done after an I D or incision and
  drainage procedure of an abscess

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• CA on the chart suggested the patient might need
  one or both of these types of tx

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• What is chemo tx and radiation tx? (CA is
  carcinoma or cancer)

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• The patient cannot sleep when lying back down,
  often due to obesity and old age.

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• What is sleep apnea? Organs in their abdomen
  pushing against the lungs/diaphragm prevents the
  lungs from inhaling and they wake up suddenly in
  the night not able to breathe unless they sit up
  and get the weight off their lungs or some cases,
  their trachea folds over causing asphyxiation
  (choking)

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• Vital signs include these four measurements

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• Blood pressure, temp., resp. rate, pulse rate

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• It is a mini-CVA

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• What is a TIA or transient Ischemic attack. A
  little clot (embolus) might temporarily block an
  artery in the brain (ischemia) and grandpa has a
  lapse of awareness of memory for a moment.
  Warning of an impending CVA! Infarction, on the
  other hand, is a sudden and complete loss of
  blood flow to an organ ex. Myocardial infarction.

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• This group of medications will make your throw up

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• Emetics (to get rid of poison you swallowed)
  ex. IPECAC

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• This group of medications will make you urinate

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• Diuretics (diuresis means to urinate)

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• Medications that make you sleep are in this group

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• Sedatives like Xanax and Ambiens

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• A group of drugs derived from opium plants which
  can be used for sleep, pain, anesthesia and are
  highly addictive and often abused

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• Narcotics

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Two Points

• Following an H P the pt had reported a Fx which
  required Sx but got a bone and marrow infection.
  Decode this and label the dx for bone/marrow
  infection

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• Following the history and physical, the patient
  had a fracture that developed osteomyelitis
  (bone/marrow infection) which was treated by
  surgery.

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• It is the disorder whereby your thyroid gland
  produces too much hormone

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• What is hyperthyroidism?

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• The CBC counts RBCs and WBCs plus blood
  platelets. What is the medical name for a blood
  platelet? Think about what they do/cause?

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• Blood platelets are called thrombocytes because
  they cause blood clotting (a thrombus is a
  clot) Latin word for clot is
  .hematoma

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• If you have a UTI, see this physician

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• Urologist for your urinary tract infection

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• The nurse was ordered to do PT TID what was
  he/she to do?

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• Physical therapy three times a day

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• The patients heart rate was slow so the nurse
  recorded the rate as this_____

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• Bradycardia

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• A cell which breaks down bone tissue

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• Osteoclast! clast is the suffix for breaking
  down cells, cyte is for normal adult cells and
  blast means its a baby version of the cell
  like a osteoblast, myoblast, etc.

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• Two people at one time, who were married to Marc
  Antony

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• Cleopatra and Jennifer Lopez

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• You need a Bx who you gonna see?

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• For a biopsy, a pathologist

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• Its a cancer of the bone marrow

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• What is myelocarcinoma?

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• It means pain during menstruation

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• Dysmenorrhea

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• Three possible DDxs for a pt. presenting with
  amenorrhea

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• Had a hysterectomy
• Is having menopause
• Is pregnant
• Take their H P and the Dx will be easy

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• A procedure for extracting fluid from a mothers
  uterus prior to delivery

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• What is amniocentesis?

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• Three terms that all mean to dissect a human
  cadaver (corpse) after death

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• Autopsy, necropsy and post mortem

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• Instrument for visualizing your joint

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• Arthroscope as in arthroscopic surgery

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• Instrument for visualizing you abdomen

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• Abdominoscope but more commonly uses the Greek
  word for abdomen lapar therefore its a
  laprascope as in Lap-Band Surgery for obesity

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• The pt said they couldnt stop urinating the
  doctor recorded this symptom in the chart

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• What is polyuria?

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• This means on the same side while this means
  on the other side

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• What is contralateral and ipsilateral?

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• The prefix septiindicates this

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• This procedure in not being performed sterilely
  and is likely to be contaminated (like a septic
  tank) probably because its a traumatic wound and
  already infected

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• This means free of all living organisms

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• Sterile

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• You wipe down the patients skin with a
  disinfectant so the skin is said to be this

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• Aseptic (free from pathogenic/disease-causing
  organisms) but its not sterile, just aseptic but
  at least not septic!

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• The surgical removal of the patients windpipe

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• What is a trachectomy?

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• It is the medical name for bedwetting

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• Either nocturia or enuresis

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• It means sweet sugary urine

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• What is glycosuria/glucosuria?

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• It is an inflammation of a females uterine lining

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• What is endometriosis?

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• It means to vomit

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• What is emesis?

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• It is a medication that removes sensation

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• Anesthesia

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• It is a medication that kills pain

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• Analgesia (algesia means pain a means
  without)

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• On what part of the body is a laparoscopic
  procedure done?

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• The abdomen in Greek is lapar (think Lap
  banding)

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• The abbreviation for an erythrocyte and for a
  leukocyte

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• Rbc and Wbc (red and white blood cells)

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• It means a stomach ache

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• What is dyspepsia or gastralgia caused usually
  by gastritis or acid reflux (GERDs)

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• Whats removed in a cholecystectomy?

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• Gall bladder of the liver cyst is a bladder,
  chole refers to cholesterol-fat especially in
  the liver, so you dont confuse this bladder with
  your urinary bladder, we call the gall bladder
  your cholecyst

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• It means something has a blue color?

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• What is cyanosis? (sign of lack of blood supply
  to something due to ischemia)

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• The PTs goal is to increase the Pts ROM

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• The physical therapists goal is to increase the
  patients Range of Motion

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• The feared disorder every mother has for their
  newborn baby while the infant is sleeping

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• What is SIDS or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome?
  (sudden collapse of the trachea) thus mothers
  never sleep really

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• Sig. on an Rx means this

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• The signatura which in Latin means directions
  ADA dosage

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• Medicines with this label dont require an Rx

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• What are OTC or over the counter medications?

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• It means the circulation in your legs is not WNL
  and is a common abbreviation for this disorder

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• What is PVD or peripheral vascular disease?

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• The patient was to take their pain medication
  PRN how often should it be used?

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• As needed

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• The patient was put on an Ad Lib diet how much
  could they eat

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• As much as they wanted to

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• It is an abbreviation for a common disorder among
  girls who have a lot of dysmenorrhea and is the
  cause of it

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• What is Pelvic Inflammatory Disease or PID and
  often is the cause of extreme, unpredictable
  menstrual cramps

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• She reported feeling spiders crawling up her
  legs the doctor charted the symptom as this

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• What are parasthesias (feeling things that
  arent there) i.e. paranormal feelings or
  ghost feelings

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• The patient had trouble breathing the doctor
  charted this as this

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• What is dyspnea?

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• The patient reported difficulty swallowing it
  was charted as this symptom

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• Dysphagia

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• The patient had difficulty speaking therefore
  it was charted as..

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• Dysphasia

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• The pt couldnt read correctlyI.e. had this

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• Dyslexia ( a lexicon is another name for a
  dictionary hence dyslexia inability to read in
  an orderly manner)

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• Burning during urination

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• Dysuria

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• This nut has milk inside

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• What is a coconut?

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• Blood in the urine

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• hematuria

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• It means a collapsed lung

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• What is atelectasis?

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• It means further to the side than this both names

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• What is lateral relative to medial?

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• It means further down an extremity than something
  else both names

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• Distal (far away) vs. proximal (close by)

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• It means a curvature of the spine

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• What is scoliosis?

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• It is a medication for relieving pain

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• What is an analgesic?

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• It is a medication for making you urinate

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• What is a diuretic? (diuresis means urinating)

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• It is a medication for relaxing you

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• What is a tranquilizer?

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• It is an inflammation of the linings covering the
  brain and spinal cord

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• What is meningitis? The meninges are the
  membranes covering of the nervous system

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• It means to change a clogged blood vessel to
  your heart

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• What is an angio plasty?

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• Kids with small heads crushing their brains

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• Microcephaly

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• An xray taken to image the arteries of the heart

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• What is an angiogram?

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• To put a hole in a vein

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• Phlebotomy

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• The wasting away of a body part

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• Dystrophy (trophy means to feed or supply)

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• It means a slow gradual loss of blood supply to

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• Ischemia

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• To cough up blood

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• hemoptysis

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• Nose bleed

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• epistaxis

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• Collapsed lung

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• atelectasis

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• It means a sudden loss of blood supply to

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• Infarction

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• Where the hook and bait are on the line

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