• A group of possible diagnoses is called this at the patient’s first visit

• What is a “differential diagnosis”? (DDX)

• The part of the prescription that the
“signatura” indicates. (sig.)

• The customized dosage for this patient

• Three methods of describing something that
“produces pus”

• Suppurative, pyogenic and purulent

• A medication which is poisonous to the bone marrow is described as this

• Myelotoxic

• A piece of a thrombus that breaks off and might cause a MI or a CVA is called this

• An embolus

• Married to Mariah and hosts AGT

• Nick Cannon

• Involuntary contractions of one’s airway is called this

• Bronchospasm ( the most obvious feature of an asthma attack)

• Prior to the C & S you’ll need to do this procedure

• What is an I & D (incision and drainage)

• The acronym that reminds health care workers what ingredients must be in the medical chart for every entry one makes for each patient contact

• S.O.A.P. :
• Subjective (“symptoms” pt. reports)
Objective (“signs” the doctor observes)
Assessment (includes the DDX, i.e. possible
Dx)
• Plan, (procedures, prognosis)

• A CC and BUN test the function of this

• What is the kidney?

• A cholecystectomy is the surgical removal of this

• The gall bladder (the storage site of bile, an enzyme to digest fat found in the liver often clogged with gall stones)

• A cyanotic body section suggests what condition exists in the circulation to this structure?

• Ischemia

• Recurrent dysmenorrhea and breakthrough bleeding in middle aged women may require a surgical minor procedure involving the uterine lining called this

• D & C, dilation and curettage (“dusting and cleaning”)

• Putting a tube into a chest cavity that is filled with blood in order to vacuum the blood out requires an emergency room procedure called this

• Thoracotomy

• To get a biopsy of a few cells of lung tissue to
RO (rule out) carcinoma, requires this office procedure

• Thoracocentesis or pulmonary centesis

• This procedure removes the foreskin of a penis

• circumcision

• The baby is born with too many toes, described as this

• polydactyly

• Pain upon swallowing vs. difficulty speaking

• Dysphagia vs. dysphasia

• Three terms to describe the examination of a dead body

• Autopsy, necropsy and post mortem

• These Tigers are located on a campus in Baton
Rouge

• Lousiana State University

• Excessive blood loss

• hemorrhage

• Too much urinating

• Polyruria (oligouria means too little urinating)

• bedwetting

• Enuresis or nocturia (if only at night)

• A medication which makes you throw up

• An Emetic (ex. Ipecac)

• It means something is “further away than something else”

• Distal (proximal means “closer”)

• Cyanotic toes might be a sign of poor circulation and this disorder is abbreviated as this

• PVD or peripheral vascular disease

• They used to be called respirators but now are abbreviated as this

• IPPB (intermittent positive pressure breathing apparatus)

• Cholesterol comes in two types;

• LDL’s and HDL’s, low and high density lipoproteins HDL’s are “good cholesterol” like in cold water fishes with Omega 3 fats that are good for you. LDS’s damage and clog blood vessels for arteriosclerosis, hypertension, and are found in fried foods of any kind

• Heidi, Cindy and Tyra all have this in common

• All are supermodels

• The medical name for migraine headaches

• encephalgia

• A CVA characteristically causes symptoms on the ______side of the victim

• Contralateral side, ( ipsilateral means “same side”)

• It means “a collapsed lung”

• Atelectasis, do a chest tube, thoracotomy, to vacuum out the blood in chest to inflate the lung in the ER)

• It means “hard skin” as a symptom

• Scleroderma, sclero means “hardening”, derm is skin

• It means “hardening of the arteries”

• arteriosclerosis

• It means something is closer to your head

• Cephalic (caudal is towards your tail)

• It means “slow breathing”

• bradypnea

• It means “fever”

• hyperthermia

• It means “partial, temporary paralysis”

• Paresis, (“paralysis” is permanent and total loss of function)

• The wheelchair would be necessary for the type of paralysis known as this

• paraplegia

• The CVA victim would have the type of paralysis known as this

• (Contralateral) hemiplegia

• An instrument for visualizing your urinary bladder

• A cystoscope

• A tumor of one’s cartilage

• chondroma

• Pain in one’s muscles

• myalgia

• The Patton, Abrams and Centurion and Hellcat were all forms of this

• U.S. Tanks

• These letters refer to the monitoring of a patients fluid balance

• I & O, or input and output

• The removal of the upper half of one’s left breast

• Superior hemi, sinistra, mammectomy/or mastectomy

• A device for examining a patient’s eyes

• opthalmascope

• A medication to render you senseless

• anesthesia

• A medication to reduce one’s pain

• analgesic

• Double vision

• diplopia

• dizziness

• vertigo

• Blood in a joint

• hemarthrosis

• Pain in a nerve

• neuralgia

• TPR comprise this set of procedures (only BP missing)

• Vital signs, (VS)

• Post menopause, many women request these pills

• HRT, hormone replacement therapy to keep them from aging and getting osteoporosis

• Leonard may have thought he was dating her but in REAL life she’s really dating him

• Henry Cavill, AKA “Superman”

• In last year’s Academy Award best picture blockbuster movie, the irony is that the actors in it are entirely missing what the title implies

• Gravity with Clooney and Bullock, they have zero of it!

• It’s the name of a German automobile and also a prominent bellybutton

• What is an Audi/outie? (sorry, I couldn’t resist this one)

• What Panama and Suez and your ear have in common?

• A canal

• Another way of saying QID

• Q6h

• Hypokalemia may be resolved with this

• Gatorade; banana, high potassium water drink with fruit flavoring to cover up the awful taste of potassium

• The 3 advantages of private schools over state institutions

• Smaller class sizes
• More scholarships available
• Higher acceptance rate into graduate/professional schools

• It means “a bloody nose”

• epistaxis

• It means “doesn’t have a menstrual period”

• amenorrhea

• It means “a time in life when one’s periods cease”

• menopause

• What Notre Dame, St. Thomas,Trinity, St.
John’s, DePaul all have in common

• All are Catholic Universities

• It means to “vomit or cough up blood”

• hemoptysis

• What two procedures are part of a total removal of one’s uterus and ovaries

• Hysterectomy and bilateral oophorectomy

• The class of drugs IPECAC belongs to

• Emetics, make you throw up

• To put you to sleep at night you’ll need this class of medications

• A sedative

• A medication to reduce your anxiety

• A tranquilizer

• PPCCCO

• “The patient presents with a chief complaint of…….”

• The removal of a gall bladder

• cholecystectomy

• Medical name for a UTI

• cystitis

• Black and blue marks on a corpse are called these

• ecchymoses

• The medical name for a blood platelet

• Thrombocyte (thrombus is a clot, “cyte” always means “cell”)

• Accelerated heart rate

• tachycardia

• Swollen joint

• arthroedema

• Inflammation of the lining of lungs

• pleuritis

• Inflammation of a bone

• osteitis

• Medical name for an RBC

• erythrocyte

• Acronym for a defibrillator

• AED, automatic external defibrillator

• Liver pain

• hepatalgia

• Too little potassium is called this condition

• Hypokalemia, hypo=too little, kalium
=potassium (K), emia means “in the blood”

• Too much cholesterol in the blood

• hypercholesterolemia

• The name of the arteries around the heart that provide the myocardium itself with blood

• The coronary arteries (CAD=coronary artery disease)

• Speech impediment, partially

• dyphasia

• Pain on urination

• dysuria

• Inflammation of a ligament

• fibrositis

• Inflammation of a tendon

• Also fibrocitis

• Surgical resection of cartilage

• chondrectomy

• Ironically, Alfred Nobel, for whom the peace prize is named after, made his fortune doing this

• Inventing and selling dynamite to both sides in the first world war!

• She was “legally blond” at her Sweet Home in
Alabama”

• Reese Witherspoon

• Where a “cul-de-sac” can be found

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