Intro To Health Care Terminology - Week 1

Question 1

Nondecodable terms

Answer 1

Can not be broken into component parts
Examples: cataract (progressive clouding of lens)
Angina pectoris (heart, cardiac, pain caused by lack of oxygen to heart muscle)
Sequela (condition that results from some other injury or disorder)

Acute

Chronic

Sign

Symptom

Question 2

Eponym
Cesarean section

Answer 2

Surgical removal of infant from mothers uterus
(Julius Caesar was supposedly born this way)

Question 3

Eponym
Heimlich Maneuver

Answer 3

Named after J. H. Heimlich
Dislodge food from the airway of a person who is choking