National Nurses Week: Medical Terms and Parts of the Body

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  1. analgesic
    a medicine used to relieve pain
  2. anesthesia
    a drug that causes temporary loss of bodily sensations
  3. biopsy
    the removal and examination of tissue from a living body
  4. circulation
    the movement of blood through the heart and blood vessels
  5. clinical
    relating to or based on direct observation of patients
  6. critical
    being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency
  7. genetic
    occurring among members of a family usually by heredity
  8. infectious
    relating to the invasion of germs that cause disease
  9. intravenous
    within or by means of a vein
  10. licensed
    given official approval to act
  11. medical
    relating to the study or practice of medicine
  12. medicine
    the profession devoted to alleviating diseases and injuries
  13. nutrition
    the scientific study of food and drink
  14. preventive
    contributing to the hindrance of disease
  15. prognosis
    a prediction of the course of a disease
  16. quarantine
    enforced isolation of patients suffering contagious disease
  17. specimen
    a bit of tissue or fluid taken for diagnostic purposes
  18. temperature
    the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
  19. therapeutic
    tending to cure or restore to health
  20. viral
    relating to or caused by a virus
Created on Thu Apr 20 20:47:16 EDT 2023 (updated Tue May 23 09:11:51 EDT 2023)

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