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Section Overview
In this section, you will learn basic medical terminology revolving around different medical equipment, supplies, and language. This will allow you to familiarize yourself with the tools that medical professionals use.
Medical Terminology Lesson: 1
In this video, you will learn the basics of medical terminology starting with increased and decreased levels of processes, colors, bodily systems and various abdominal organs.
Medical Terminology Lesson: 2
In this video, you will learn the basics of medical terminology with regards to, Medical Conditions, Processes, and Medical/Surgical Procedures
Medical Terminology Lesson: 3
In this video, you will learn the basics of medical terminology with regards to more medical conditions and processes, continued from Lesson 2. You will also learn medical terminology with regards to blood and electrolyte markers denoting levels of lipids, glucose, sodium, potassium, and calcium among many others.
Medical Equipment Terminology
In this video, you will learn about different basic medical equipment vocabulary. The terminology that you will learn about includes many of the common medical equipment found in many hospital environments.
Further Medicial Terminology/Vocabulary
Balloon (NOUN)
A small bag that a doctor puts into a part of your body and fills with air in order to force something out
Catheter (NOUN)
A thin tube put into your body to remove a liquid such as urine
Defibrillator (NOUN)
A piece of equipment for giving the heart an electric shock to make it start to beat normally again
Drain (NOUN)
A tube that carries liquid away from your body, for example one that carries blood away from an injury
Drip (NOUN)
A piece of equipment used in a hospital for putting a liquid such as medicine directly into your body
EEG (NOUN)
Electroencephalograph: a machine that records electrical activity in the brain
EKG (NOUN)
Electrocardiograph: a piece of equipment that measures how fast your heart is beating
EpiPen (NOUN)
A needle fitted into a tube that looks like a pen, used for putting a drug into someone who is having a severe allergic reaction to something
Eyedropper (NOUN)
A tube with a piece of rubber on the end that you squeeze to put liquid medicine into your eye
Flotation tank (NOUN)
A large container filled with salt water in which people float in order to completely relax
Forceps (NOUN)
A medical tool with two long narrow parts, used for holding things during medical operations
Hearing aid (NOUN)
A small piece of equipment that someone wears in their ear to help them to hear
Heart-lung machine (NOUN)
A machine used for making blood and oxygen flow around someone’s body when they are having a medical operation on their heart
Hypodermic (NOUN)
A narrow plastic tube with a needle used for putting drugs into your body through the skin
Implant (NOUN)
An object that doctors put into someone’s body during a medical operation
Incubator (NOUN)
A piece of hospital equipment that sick or premature babies lie in to be kept warm and given treatment
Inhaler (NOUN)
A tube used for inhaling medicine into your lungs to help you to breathe more easily
IV (NOUN)
A drip for putting liquid into your body
Lamp (NOUN)
A piece of equipment that produces light and heat, used in medical treatment and scientific research
Lancet (NOUN)
A small knife with two sharp edges used by doctors
Laser (NOUN)
A piece of equipment that produces a powerful narrow line of light. It is used for cutting hard substances, directing the paths of missiles, and in medical operations
Life support system (NOUN)
A set of machines that keep someone alive when they are very sick
Ligature (NOUN)
A thread or wire that doctors tie around a blood vessel to stop someone from losing blood
Monitor (NOUN)
A piece of equipment used for showing and recording what is happening in a particular part of someone’s body
Needle (NOUN)
A very thin sharp metal tube used for putting medicine or drugs into your body, or for taking blood out. It is attached to a plastic tube called a syringe
Operating table (NOUN)
A table that someone lies on while doctors operate on them
Oxygen mask (NOUN)
An object that fits over your face and is connected to a container of oxygen, used for helping you to breathe normally
Oxygen tent (NOUN)
A large container filled with oxygen that doctors put around a person who cannot breathe normally
Pacemaker (NOUN)
A small piece of electronic equipment attached to someone’s heart to help the heart muscles move regularly
Probe (NOUN)
A long thin medical instrument used for examining things inside your body
Respirator (NOUN)
An object covering your nose and mouth that helps you to breathe when you are in a place that is full of smoke or gas
Scalpel (NOUN)
A small sharp knife used by a doctor for doing an operation
Scanner (NOUN)
A piece of equipment that is used for producing a picture of the inside of a part of someone’s body for a medical examination
Scrubs (NOUN)
The special sterile clothes worn by doctors and nurses when they do a medical operation
Shunt (NOUN)
A small tube placed in your body to carry blood or fluid from one place to another
Stent (NOUN)
A very small, artificial tube placed in an artery or other tube in the body in order to hold the artery, etc. open
Stethoscope (NOUN)
A piece of equipment used by doctors for listening to someone’s heart or breathing
Suture (NOUN)
The stitch or stitches used for closing the edges of a cut
Syringe (NOUN)
A needle fitted to a plastic tube, used for taking blood from your body or for putting medicine or drugs into it
Ventilator (NOUN)
A machine that pushes air in and out of someone’s lungs when they cannot breathe on their own