Question | Answer |
MOSS | Medical Office Simualtion Software |
Stat | Immediately |
DOB | Date of birth |
TPMS | Total practice management system |
ARU | Automated Routing Unit |
ADA | Americans with Diability Act |
PHI | Protected Health Information |
URL | Uniform resource labor |
EKG,ECG | Elecetrocardiogram |
Mi | Myocardial infraction |
PAD | Periheral Artery Disease |
CAD | Coronary Artery Disease |
C | Cholesterol |
EMG | Electromyography |
CC | Cataract Cauteriztion |
Thrombocytes | smallest formed elements of the blood |
Pericardium | Membrane sac that surounds the heart. |
Angiostenosis | Abnormal narrowing of a vessel. |
Plasmapheresis | The process of separating plasma from the whole blood |
Septicemia | Blood poisoning |
Cardiology | The study of the heart. |
Aortorrhapy | Surgical suturing of the aorta |
Tachycardia | Abnormal condtion of a fast heart. |
Leukemia | A maliganancy of abnormal blood cells |
Aneurysmoplasty | Surgical repair of a aneurysm |
Cardiomegaly | abnormal enlargement for the heart |
Phleborrhexis | Rupture of a vein |
Pericardiectomy | The surgical removal of a portion of the tissue surrounding the heart. |
Angiography | Radiographic study of blood vessels after the injuection of a contrast meduim. |
Coronary | pettaining to the heart |
Angiectomy | surgical removal of a blood vessel |
Artherosclerosis | Hardening and narrowing of the arteries cauesed by a bulid up of cholseterol plaque |
Baradycardia | abnormal conditon of a slow heart |
Percarditis | imflammation of the pericardium |
Erytheropenia | deficiency of red blood cells |
Systolic | contraction of the heart |
Diastolic | Relaxation of the heart |
Thrombus | a blood clot attached to the interior wall of an artery or vein |
Dyscrasia | any pathologic condition of the cellular elements of the blood. |
Phlebotomy | The pucture of the vein for the purpose of drawong blood. |