What are some guidelines you would offer to a friend seeking health information on the Internet?
What will be an ideal response?
Look for government, university, nonprofit, or well-known medical school websites.Look for credentials of the person or organization sponsoring the site.Check when the site was last updated. Credible sites are updated often.Look for medical research presented in the information. Give more credence to reliable scientific evidence than to opinions and testimonials.Watch for advertisers that use valid medical terminology in an irrelevant context or use vague pseudomedical jargon to sell their product.
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Define the combining form or suffix in the spaces provided.
1. thromb/o 2. agglutin/o 3. chrom/o 4. coagul/o 5. erythr/o 6. fibrin/o 7. hemat/o 8. phag/o 9. leuk/o 10. morph/o 11. sanguin/o 12. eosin/o 13. thym/o 14. adenoid/o 15. tonsill/o 16. tox/o 17. splen/o 18. lymphaden/o 19. lymphangi/o 20. -cytosis 21. -globin 22. -poiesis 23. -penia 24. -stasis ?
A mother rushes her toddler into the emergency department stating, "My baby can't breathe." Initial assessment reveals the child is struggling to breathe in an upright position
He has both inspiratory and expiratory stridor and is using his chest muscles to breath. The nurse suspects the child has which of the following acute respiratory infections? A) Croup B) Asthma C) Epiglottitis D) Bronchiolitis
Which of the following structures is responsible for refracting light rays?
A) pupil B) lens C) iris D) cornea
The plural of osteoplasty is ________.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).