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chapter 2-vocabulary
Veterinary Assistant and Medical Terminology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anatomy | branch of biology concerned with the structure of living things including bones, muscles, and internal organs. |
| Anesthesia | delivery of medicine to prevent animals from feeling pain during surgery or other medical or dental procedures. |
| Anesthetic | Medicine used to prevent pain and distress during medical distress. |
| Animal nutrition | A science concerned with the dietary needs of pets, farm, and zoo animals. |
| Animal restraint | A practice that reduces patient stress and prevents injuries to both the animal and the veterinary professional during exams. |
| Apitude | An innate, learned or developed competency to do a certain type of work at a certain level. |
| Attitude | A person's like, dislike, or ambivalence toward an object, person, behavior, issue, or event. |
| Diagnosis | process of identifying a medical condition or disease by its signs and symptoms from results of various tests and procedures |
| Empathy | Ability to feel and understand what another person is feeling |
| Marketing | Process or technique of promoting, selling and distributing a product or service. |
| Medical records | Detailed descriptions of a patients medical issues and their progress and resolution. |
| Physiology | Study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of animals. |
| Professional ethics | principles of conduct governing the behavior of a professional group. |
| Veterinary-client-patient relationship | basis for interaction between the veterinarian and his or her clients and patients. |
| X-ray | A form of electromagnetic radiation used in radiology to reveal the internal structure of the body on film. |