Chapter 2

Question 1

Caduceus

Answer 1

Recognized symbol for medicine, depicts a healing staff with 2 snakes coiled around it.

Question 2

Pandemic

Answer 2

Affects a large part of the population of many countries within the same period of time.

Question 3

Bacteria Microorangisms

Answer 3

Minute living organisms, some of which are capable of causing disease.

Question 4

Cadavers

Answer 4

Dead Bodies

Question 5

Anthrax

Answer 5

A deadly infectious disease caused by bacillus anthracis

Question 6

Pasteurization

Answer 6

Process during substances such as milk and cheese are heated to a certain temperature to eliminate bacteria

Question 7

Autopsy

Answer 7

Examination of the organs and tissue of a deceased body to determine the cause of death.

Question 8

Immunology

Answer 8

The study of immunity, the resistance to or protection from disease.

Question 9

Chemotherapy

Answer 9

The use of chemicals, including drugs, to treat or control infections and disease.

Question 10

Microbes

Answer 10

One-celled forms of life, such as bacteria.

Question 11

Syphilis

Answer 11

An infectious and chronic venereal disease.

Question 12

Anesthesia

Answer 12

Refers to the partial or complete absence of sensation

Question 13

Morbidity rates

Answer 13

Rates of disease and illness

Question 14

Oncology

Answer 14

The study and treatment of cancer

Question 15

Immune Function

Answer 15

The role of the immune system to protect against disease.

Question 16

Endocrinology

Answer 16

The study of glands and their functions

Question 17

Nutrition

Answer 17

Study of food and how it affects the body

Question 18

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)

Answer 18

A series of illness that occurs as a result of infection by HIV, causes the immune system to break down

Question 19

Human genome project

Answer 19

A publicly funded international research project to sequence and identity human genes and record their positions on chromosomes

Question 20

Diagnosis related groups (DRGS)

Answer 20

Hospital payment system, which classifies each medicare patient according to his/her illness within 467 illness categories

Question 21

Bariatrics

Answer 21

Specializes in treating patients who are obese

Question 22

Outpatients

Answer 22

Care service provided to patients on a walk in basis where no overnight stay is required

Question 23

Inpatient

Answer 23

Care services provided to patients who are in a facility overnight or on a long term basis

Question 24

Medical privilege

Answer 24

Refers to the physicians right to practice medicine in a particular hospital or other healthcare facility

Question 25

Hospice

Answer 25

An interdisciplinary program of care and supportive services that facilitates the care of the terminally ill patient by family member or significant others in the privacy of the patients home or in a hospice facility

Question 26

certification

Answer 26

In solves the issuing of a certificate and credentials by a professional organization to one who has met the educational and experience standards of the organization

Question 27

Registration

Answer 27

A professional organization in a specific healthcare field administers examinations, maintains a list of qualified individuals, or both.

Question 28

Stem cell

Answer 28

An unidentified cell that can give rise to there cells of the same type or from which specialized cells can develop