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M01
Chapter 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anesthesiologist | a physician who specializes in sedation and pain control |
| Pathologist | a physician with special training in both evaluating the causes and effects of disease and in laboratory medicine |
| Phlebotomist | trained in the removal of blood from the body for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes |
| Dorsum | top of the hand or foot |
| Caudal | toward bottom |
| Prophylaxis | preventive treatment |
| Disposition | what happened to the patient at the end of the visit; often used at the end of ED notes to reference where the patient went after the visit |
| Impression | another way of saying assessment |
| Benign | safe |
| Remission | to get better of improve |