Chap1-2 Flashcards
Achilles
Named for story of youth whose mother who dipped held him by heel and dipped him into the river Styx, tendon was not immersed
Atlas
First cervical vertebra named for famous Greek Titan who was condemned to bear the heavens on his shoulders
Venus
Roman goddess of love
Venereal diseases are also named after her.
Aphrodite
Greek goddess of love and beauty
Gave her name to the sex arousing drugs known as aphrodisiacs
Aesculapius
The son of Apollo revered as the first god of medicine. His staff which is encircled by a serpent signifies the art of healing and is used by the AMA as the symbol of medicine.
(caduceus)
Moses
First public health officer
Hippocrates
Father of medicine
Louis Pastuer
Father of bacteriology
Joseph Lister
Father of sterile surgery
Robert Koch
Cholera
Discovered the cause of cholera
Paul Enrich
Chemotherapy
A pioneer in fields of bacteriology, immunology and especially chemotherapy also discovered cure for syphilis (formula 606)
Florence Nightingale
Founder of nursing
Clara Barton
Founder of the American red cross
WHO
World health organization
Founded in 1948
DHHS
Department of health and human services
Helps americans who are unable to help themselves
CDC
Centers for disease control and prevention
CLIA
Clinical laboratory improvement act legislation
Legally governs quality in laboratory testing and reporting
Who do we credit for the first anotomical description
Versalius
What was Leeuwnboek able to view under his lens
Semen, blood, bacteria
What did Lister use to make things sterile
Carbolic acid
Galen
Prince of physicians
Andreas Versalius
Father of modern anatomy
Anton Van Leeuwnhoek
Grinder of lenses
John Hunter
Founder of scientific surgery
Edward Jenner
First smallpox vaccination
Ignatz Semmel Weiss
Aseptic Technique
Savior of mothers
Elizabeth Blackwell
First U.S. female doctor
Margaret Sanger
American leader in birth control
AAMA
American association of medical assistants
CMAA
California medical assistants association
AMT
American medical technologists
AAMT
American association for medical transcriptionists