General Vocab Flashcards
The cancer risks ___ with smoking have been well documented.
associated
The patient’s voice was ___ audible.
Barely
She takes her medicine prescription on a daily ___.
Basis
Doctors study the structures of the human body in all it’s ___.
Complexity
The passenger’s seatbelt needed ___.
Buckling
Diabetic patients need to ___ check their blood sugar levels throughout the day.
Continuously
The patient suffered from ___ of the spine.
Curvature
Drug abuse causes ___ from reality.
Detachment
The pupils of the eyes ___ as darkness increases.
Dilate
It’s important to ___ between fact and opinion.
Differentiate
Hospitals now tend to ___ patients earlier than in the past.
Discharge
He had surgery to correct a facial ___.
Disfigurement
Animals suffer great pain and ___ when being hunted.
Distress
The school was used as a hospital for the ___ of the war.
Duration
To scan for breast cancer, the doctor ___ the chest.
Palpates
Infants are more ___ to contract the flu.
Prone
After the life-threating accident, the patient’s arm was ___ completely.
Lacerated
When the doctor is making a cut, he is making an ___.
Incision
Oxygen is a(n) ___ part of our life.
Essential
After the life-threating accident, the patient’s arm was ___ completely.
Lacerated
The ___ of a disease depends on a patient’s immunity.
Recurrence
Small pox is completely _____________, there are no known existing cases today.
Eradicated
The injury was so severe, my uncle couldn’t handle it, so he ___.
Passed away
When the doctor needs to visualise the interior of a hollow organ or part , the flexiable , fiber-optic instrument he uses is lighted in order to ___ the surgical area.
Illuminate
When the doctor ___ the spleen, he decided to perform emergency splenectomy.
Lacerated
Because mohs micrographic surgery is a minimally invasive procedure, the surrounding healthy tissue remains ___.
Intact
A women wasn’t putting her seat belt on and when she had a car accident and her head hit the steering wheel so hard , then her retina was ___.
Detached
Many elderly patients___ on their doctors for medical advice.
Rely
The dentist had to ___ the man’s tooth because it was so badly decayed that he couldn’t save it.
Extract
When a surgeon performs open-heart surgery, he cuts through the sternum to ___ the heart.
Reveal
