Transcript med.terninology jeopardy part two

Medical Terminology or
How to sound like a healthcare
wizard
• Put this sign on the patient’s door prior to
Sx
• What is NPO? (nothing by mouth to avoid
aspirating food during anesthesia)
• Premature babies go to this hospital
service
• What is NICU or neonatal intensive care
unit?
• Lee, Sherman and Custer all have this in
common
• All had the rank of general
• A very common routine blood test
• What is a CBC or complete blood count?
• If you’re Bx comes back positive, you’ll
need to see this specialist
• What is an oncologist (Bx is biopsy and if
carcinoma, see the MD for Tx c chemoTx
and Radiation, possibly Sx)
• He was rude to her at music awards
dinner/presentation two years ago
• Who is Kanye West/Taylor Swift?
• Good cholesterol
• What is HDL or high density lipoproteins?
(LDL’s are the bad cholesterol)
• It used to be called emphysema
• What is COPD or chronic obstructive
pulmonary disorder? (smoker’s lung)
• The procedure for removing one of one’s
ovaries
• What is a unilateral oophorectomy?
• Neutering a male is surgically called this
• What is a bilateral orchectomy?
• If you’re constipated, order this
• MOM (milk of magnesia) Most post op
patients are constipated from the
anesthetics which slows down their bowel
movements
• You’ll be grateful to your doctor if he gives
you BRP
• What are bathroom privileges?
• You need K in your diet to help your
muscles and heart function
• What is Potassium (k)
• Careful using syringes around pts with
ARC
• Aids related complex (a group of physical
symptoms associated with AIDS, like skin
rashes, lung infections, etc.)
• You’re in Piccadilly Circus and Soho;
where are you?
• London
• If something is located more in the midline
of the body than something else, it is said
to be this
• What is medial?
• One yr of nursing training might get you
this license and degree
• What is an LPN or LVN (licensed practical
or licensed vocational nurse)? Half an RN
• Four ways to administer medications
(abbreviations only)
• 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”
• It means “at bedtime”
• H.s. or hour of sleep
• It means “take after meals”
• P.C. “post cibum” after food. A. C. means
“before meal”
• You’re being rowed on a gondola; where
are you?
• Venice, Italy on the canals; it’s a unique
canal row boat and the gondolier sings
arias from opera
• It is the charting abbreviation meaning the
pts measurements are average as
expected
• What is WNL or “within normal limits”
• It’s what you put on an open surgical or
traumatic wound, abbreviation only
• A DSD or dry sterile dressing
• 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.
• What is Hx or medical history
• If you have a purulent, suppurative
abscess. This abbreviation is for the
procedure you would do to begin Tx.
• What is an I & D or incision and drainage?
• It is the abbreviation of the fluid around the
brain and spinal cord
• What is the CSF or cerebrospinal fluid?
• The universal anti-inflammatory
medication is abbreviated like this
• What is ASA or “acetyl salicylic acid” aka
aspirin
• This bear is actually not a bear but a
rodent; you’ll find him in the Out Back
(Australian bush country, wilderness)
eating eucalyptus leaves
• What is a Koala?
• Three abbreviations for consequences of
an embolus ( a fragment of a thrombus or
clot) migrating from the clot to vital
locations causing death
• What are a CVA, MI or PE also known as
strokes, heart attacks and pulmonary
embolisms CVA=cerebral vascular
accident MI=myocardial infarction
PE=pulmonary embolism all can be fatal!
• 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.
• What is a C & S or culture and sensitivity,
usually done after an I & D or incision and
drainage procedure of an abscess
• CA on the chart suggested the patient
might need one or both of these types of tx
• What is chemo tx and radiation tx? (CA is
carcinoma or cancer)
• The patient cannot sleep when lying back
down, often due to obesity and old age.
• 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)
• Vital signs include these four
measurements
• Blood pressure, temp., resp. rate, pulse
rate
• It is a mini-CVA
• 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.
• This group of medications will make your
throw up
• Emetics (to get rid of poison you
swallowed) ex. IPECAC
• This group of medications will make you
urinate
• Diuretics (diuresis means to urinate)
• Medications that make you sleep are in
this group
• Sedatives like Xanax and Ambiens
• A group of drugs derived from opium
plants which can be used for sleep, pain,
anesthesia and are highly addictive and
often abused
• Narcotics
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”
• Following the history and physical, the
patient had a fracture that developed
osteomyelitis (bone/marrow infection)
which was treated by surgery.
• It is the disorder whereby your thyroid
gland produces too much hormone
• What is “hyperthyroidism”?
• The CBC counts RBC’s and WBCs plus
blood platelets. What is the medical name
for a “blood platelet”? Think about what
they do/cause?
• Blood platelets are called “thrombocytes”
because they cause blood clotting (a
“thrombus” is a clot) Latin word for clot is
………………………………………………
……………….hematoma
• If you have a UTI, see this physician
• Urologist for your urinary tract infection
• The nurse was ordered to do PT TID; what
was he/she to do?
• Physical therapy three times a day
• The patient’s heart rate was slow so the
nurse recorded the rate as this_____
• Bradycardia
• A cell which breaks down bone tissue
• Osteoclast! “clast” is the suffix for
breaking down cells, “cyte” is for normal
adult cells and “blast” means it’s a baby
version of the cell like a osteoblast,
myoblast, etc.
• Two people at one time, who were married
to Marc Antony
• Cleopatra and Jennifer Lopez
• You need a Bx; who you gonna see?
• For a biopsy, a pathologist
• It’s a cancer of the bone marrow
• What is myelocarcinoma?
• It means “pain during menstruation”
• Dysmenorrhea
• Three possible DDx’s for a pt. presenting
with “amenorrhea”
• Had a hysterectomy
• Is having menopause
• Is pregnant
• Take their H & P and the Dx will be easy
• A procedure for extracting fluid from a
mother’s uterus prior to delivery
• What is amniocentesis?
• Three terms that all mean to dissect a
human cadaver (corpse) after death
• Autopsy, necropsy and post mortem
• Instrument for visualizing your joint
• Arthroscope as in “arthroscopic” surgery
• Instrument for visualizing you abdomen
• Abdominoscope but more commonly uses
the Greek word for abdomen “lapar”
therefore it’s a “laprascope” as in “LapBand Surgery” for obesity
• The pt said they couldn’t stop urinating;
the doctor recorded this symptom in the
chart
• What is polyuria?
• This means “on the same side” while this
means “on the other side”
• What is contralateral and ipsilateral?
• The prefix “septi”indicates this
• This procedure in not being performed
sterilely and is likely to be contaminated
(like a septic tank) probably because it’s a
traumatic wound and already infected
• This means “free of all living organisms”
• Sterile
• You wipe down the patient’s skin with a
disinfectant so the skin is said to be this:
• Aseptic (free from pathogenic/diseasecausing organisms) but it’s not sterile, just
aseptic but at least not septic!
• The surgical removal of the patient’s
windpipe
• What is a trachectomy?
• It is the medical name for bedwetting
• Either nocturia or enuresis
• It means “sweet sugary urine”
• What is glycosuria/glucosuria?
• It is an inflammation of a female’s uterine
lining
• What is endometriosis?
• It means “to vomit”
• What is emesis?
• It is a medication that removes sensation
• Anesthesia
• It is a medication that kills pain
• Analgesia (“algesia” means pain: “a”
means “without”)
• On what part of the body is a laparoscopic
procedure done?
• The abdomen in Greek is “lapar” (think
Lap banding)
• The abbreviation for an erythrocyte and for
a leukocyte
• Rbc and Wbc (red and white blood cells)
• It means “a stomach ache”
• What is dyspepsia or “gastralgia” caused
usually by gastritis or acid reflux (GERDs)
• What’s removed in a “cholecystectomy”?
• Gall bladder of the liver; “cyst” is a
bladder, “chole” refers to cholesterol-fat
especially in the liver, so you don’t confuse
this bladder with your urinary bladder, we
call the gall bladder your “cholecyst”
• It means something has a “blue color?
• What is cyanosis? (sign of lack of blood
supply to something: due to “ischemia”)
• The PT’s goal is to increase the Pt’s ROM
• The physical therapist’s goal is to increase
the patient’s Range of Motion
• The feared disorder every mother has for
their newborn baby while the infant is
sleeping
• What is SIDS or Sudden Infant Death
Syndrome? (sudden collapse of the
trachea) thus mothers never sleep really
• Sig. on an Rx means this
• The “signatura” which in Latin means
“directions ADA dosage”
• Medicines with this label don’t require an
Rx
• What are OTC or over the counter
medications?
• It means the circulation in your legs is not
WNL and is a common abbreviation for
this disorder
• What is PVD or peripheral vascular
disease?
• The patient was to take their pain
medication PRN; how often should it be
used?
• As needed
• The patient was put on an Ad Lib diet;
how much could they eat
• As much as they wanted to
• It is an abbreviation for a common disorder
among girls who have a lot of
dysmenorrhea and is the cause of it
• What is Pelvic Inflammatory Disease or
PID and often is the cause of extreme,
unpredictable menstrual cramps
• She reported feeling spiders crawling up
her legs; the doctor charted the symptom
as this
• What are “parasthesias” (feeling things
that aren’t there) i.e. “para”normal feelings
or ghost feelings
• The patient had trouble breathing; the
doctor charted this as this
• What is dyspnea?
• The patient reported difficulty swallowing;
it was charted as this symptom
• Dysphagia
• The patient had difficulty speaking;
therefore it was charted as…..
• Dysphasia
• The pt couldn’t read correctly;I.e. had this
• Dyslexia ( a lexicon is another name for a
dictionary hence “dyslexia”; inability to
read in an orderly manner)
• Burning during urination
• Dysuria
• This “nut” has milk inside
• What is a coconut?
• Blood in the urine
• hematuria
• It means “a collapsed lung”
• What is atelectasis?
• It means further to the side than this; both
names
• What is “lateral” relative to “medial”?
• It means further down an extremity than
something else; both names
• Distal (far away) vs. proximal (close by)
• It means “a curvature of the spine”
• What is scoliosis?
• It is a medication for relieving pain
• What is an analgesic?
• It is a medication for making you urinate
• What is a diuretic? (diuresis means
urinating)
• It is a medication for relaxing you
• What is a tranquilizer?
• It is an inflammation of the linings covering
the brain and spinal cord
• What is meningitis? The meninges are the
membranes covering of the nervous
system
• It means “to change a clogged blood
vessel to your heart”
• What is an “angio plasty”?
• Kids with small heads crushing their brains
• Microcephaly
• An xray taken to image the arteries of the
heart
• What is an angiogram?
• To put a hole in a vein
• Phlebotomy
• The wasting away of a body part
• Dystrophy (“trophy” means to feed or
supply)
• It means a “slow gradual loss of blood
supply to”
• Ischemia
• To cough up blood
• hemoptysis
• Nose bleed
• epistaxis
• Collapsed lung
• atelectasis
• It means “a sudden loss of blood supply
to”
• Infarction
Where the hook and bait are on the line
• THE END