Med Skills

Question 1

pruritus

Answer 1

pru-rite-us: local or generalized itching

Question 2

petechia

Answer 2

pa-teek-e-a: a minute reddish or purplish spot containing blood that appears in skin or mucous membrane as a result of localized hemorrhage

Question 3

cephalgia

Answer 3

ce-fal-ja: headache

Question 4

diplopia

Answer 4

dip-lop-e-a: double vision

Question 5

cerumen

Answer 5

earwax

Question 6

epistaxis

Answer 6

epi-stacks-is: nosebleed

Question 7

erythema

Answer 7

era-the-ma: skin redness due to inflammation

Question 8

hemoptysis

Answer 8

heme-op-t-sis: expectoration of blood from the respiratory tract

Question 9

paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea

Answer 9

difficulty breathing at night

Question 10

orthopnea

Answer 10

or-thop-nea: difficulty in breathing that occurs when lying down and is relieved upon changing to an upright position (as in congestive heart failure)

Question 11

angina

Answer 11

a disease marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain; commonly chest pain associated with heart pathologies.

Question 12

palpitations

Answer 12

an abnormally rapid or irregular beating of the heart

Question 13

dyspepsia

Answer 13

Indigestion

Question 14

emesis

Answer 14

eme-sis: vomiting

Question 15

melena

Answer 15

ma-lee-na: passage of dark tarry stool indicative of decomposing blood from the upper GI

Question 16

hematochezia

Answer 16

he-mat-o-keys-e-a: passage of fresh blood in stool

Question 17

dysmenorrhea

Answer 17

menstrual pain

Question 18

uticaria

Answer 18

hives

Question 19

antipyretic

Answer 19

fever reduction