EMT MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
1.Acidosis: an acid condition of the body - can occur with decreased
ventilations - not enough carbon dioxide is eliminated. With water, CO2
becomes carbonic acid.
2.Alkalosis: an alkaline condition of the body - can occur with
hyperventilation - blowing off too much carbon dioxide
3.Adjuncts: things that help - so oxygen assist in the delivery of oxygen
4.Agitation: an emotional state of being restless, anxious, nervous
5.Aggravation: an emotional state of being angry, or extremely
unhappy about something
6.Algorithm: an illustrative method to summarize assessment and
treatment infor- mation. Memory aids.
7.Antecubital: pertaining to the front of the elbow - a place to start an IV
8.Arthritis: an inflammation of the joints
9.Aspirate: to suck into
10.Atrophy: a wasting of tissue - when leg is not in use it wastes away
11.Bifurcate: to split in two - the trachea bifurcates at the carina into
two main stem bronchi
12.Blunt trauma: an injury that was caused by a blunt object - no break in
the skin
13.Child: pediatrics- a child is over 1 year old but less than 14
14.Compromise: to make worse - compromised airway
15.Contraindicated: a condition that renders a treatment improper or
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16.Copious: large amounts
17.Dermatology: the study of the skin
18.Ectopic: out of the ordinary (pregnancy, pacemaker, beats)
19.Edema: swelling of tissue due to excessive fluid in the area
20.Electrodes: the "leads" placed on a patient's chest for ECG
21.Embolus: a lump of something traveling through the blood vessel
(air, fat from a fracture or blood clot)
22.Emphysema: means trapped air - a chronic respiratory disease that
involves trapping air
23.Epistaxis: medical term for nosebleed
24. Epidemiology: the study of the distribution of illness & injury
across a population and the applying this knowledge to help control
disease
25.Etiology: the study of the cause of a disease
26.Evisceration: an open wound where internal organs are visible on the
outside such as an abdominal evisceration
27.Exacerbate: to make worse - increased severity of symptoms
28.Expedite: to hurry along, to do quickly
29.Expiration: to breathe out - exhalation
30.Febrile: having a fever
31.Fibrillation: where the ventricles stop contracting properly and just
quiver, no pumping
32.Gait: a manner of walking - ataxic gait refers to staggering
33.Geriatrics: relating to elderly patients
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1.Acidosis: an acid condition of the body - can occur with decreased
ventilations - not enough carbon dioxide is eliminated. With water, CO2
becomes carbonic acid.
2.Alkalosis: an alkaline condition of the body - can occur with
hyperventilation - blowing off too much carbon dioxide
3.Adjuncts: things that help - so oxygen assist in the delivery of oxygen
4.Agitation: an emotional state of being restless, anxious, nervous
5.Aggravation: an emotional state of being angry, or extremely
unhappy about something
6.Algorithm: an illustrative method to summarize assessment and
treatment infor- mation. Memory aids.
7.Antecubital: pertaining to the front of the elbow - a place to start an IV
8.Arthritis: an inflammation of the joints
9.Aspirate: to suck into
10.Atrophy: a wasting of tissue - when leg is not in use it wastes away
11.Bifurcate: to split in two - the trachea bifurcates at the carina into
two main stem bronchi
12.Blunt trauma: an injury that was caused by a blunt object - no break in
the skin
13.Child: pediatrics- a child is over 1 year old but less than 14
14.Compromise: to make worse - compromised airway
15.Contraindicated: a condition that renders a treatment improper or
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, undesirable
16.Copious: large amounts
17.Dermatology: the study of the skin
18.Ectopic: out of the ordinary (pregnancy, pacemaker, beats)
19.Edema: swelling of tissue due to excessive fluid in the area
20.Electrodes: the "leads" placed on a patient's chest for ECG
21.Embolus: a lump of something traveling through the blood vessel
(air, fat from a fracture or blood clot)
22.Emphysema: means trapped air - a chronic respiratory disease that
involves trapping air
23.Epistaxis: medical term for nosebleed
24. Epidemiology: the study of the distribution of illness & injury
across a population and the applying this knowledge to help control
disease
25.Etiology: the study of the cause of a disease
26.Evisceration: an open wound where internal organs are visible on the
outside such as an abdominal evisceration
27.Exacerbate: to make worse - increased severity of symptoms
28.Expedite: to hurry along, to do quickly
29.Expiration: to breathe out - exhalation
30.Febrile: having a fever
31.Fibrillation: where the ventricles stop contracting properly and just
quiver, no pumping
32.Gait: a manner of walking - ataxic gait refers to staggering
33.Geriatrics: relating to elderly patients
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