Vocabulario de especialidades medicas

1. UNIT 7
Specialties and
areas of the
hospital
May Tuz Julio Cesar
Mena Ortiz Priscila
Peraza Novelo Alondra Gpe.

2. MATERNITY
Area where the children are
born and it has a care for the
mothers who have just given
birth and to his babies. Offering
the best advices and taken care

3. ONCOLOGY
Unit to treat
cancer

4. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
 The occupational therapy in the
school consists of an intervention
to qualify the pupil to exceeding
or compensating his difficulties to
achieve his potential maximum
and to accede to the learnings
that are offered in the curriculum.

5. PHYSIOTHERAPY
Massages for a
recovery

6. OUTPATIENTS
Clinics where patients
come to the hospital
for appointment

7. A Y E
Area of urgencies in the
hospitals is the place where
there are attended the patients
who come for some emergency
or algun important problem.

8. HAEMATOLOGY
Part of medicine that
studies the immune
blood elements

9. NEPHROLOGY
Specialty go where kidney
patients
“Renal”

10. TRAUMATOLOGY
The orthopedic surgery deals
with the traumatic injuries of
column and extremities that
they affect to: Bones:
fractures, Ligaments and
joints:, etc.

11. ADMISSIONS
Instead of information

12. CARDIOLOGY
Specialty responsible for
the heart

13. INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
A unit of intensive care (UCI), it
is a special installation inside the
hospitable area that provides
intensive medicine.

14. RADIOLOGY
Deals with generating
images inside the body
by various physical
agents

15. GASTROENTEROLOGIST
Medical specialist in
gastroenterology.

16. SURGERY
Area where the operations are realized.

17. GINECOLOGY
Care of the female
reproductive system

18. NEUROLOGY
Specialty charge of the
Nervous System

19. NUTRITION
Area that takes charge
realizing food plans to
have a good diet and to
nourish the patient.

20. OPTHALMOLOGY
Part of medicine That
studies the eye and
deals With Their
diseases

21. OTOLARYNGOLOGY
Part of medicine that deals with the
anatomy, physiology and diseases
of the ear, nose and throat.

22.  It is the place where the attention is
given in rehabilitation giving
services of promotion of the health,
consultation it medicates,
prevention of disability,
rehabilitation for areas,
mecanoteraphy, hydrotherapy,
sensory stimulation, early
stimulation, electro and thermos
therapy
REHABILITATION

23. PHLEBOTOMY
Area to investigate
results of blood or
other

24. M R I
Medical imaging that uses
strong magnetic fields radio
waves to form detailed
images of the body
“Magnetic resonance”

25. ASTHMA
Disease of the respiratory device that is
characterized by an anxious and difficult
breathing, cough, sensation of suffocation and
sibilant noises in the chest.

26. RASH
Allergic reaction

27. MAMMOGRAM
X-Ray of the breast

28. CONTRAST
It helps to
distinguish

29. N/A
Not relevant

30. ANGIOGRAM
Radiographic image of the
blood glasses that is
obtained by the angiogram

31. DERMATOLOGY
Unit that deals
with skin diseases

32. PAEDIATRICS
Part of medicine that deals
with the study of growth and
development of children
through adolescence, and
treatment of their diseases.

33. GERIATRICS
The Geriatrics is a medical
speciality dedicated to the
study of the prevention, the
diagnosis, the treatment and
the rehabilitation of the
diseases in the persons of the
third age.