click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Termsssssss
Terminology for temperature, pulse and respiration
Question | Answer |
---|---|
Tachypnea | Fast or rapid breathing |
Bradypnea | Slow breathing rate |
Tachycardia | Fast heart beat |
Bradycardia | Slowness of the heart beat. |
Systole | contraction of the heart |
Asystole | Is a state of no cardiac electrical activity, hence no contractions of the myocardium and no cardiac output or blood flow.Asystole is one of the conditions that may be used for a medical practitioner to certify clinical or legal death. |
Eupnea | Easy, free respiration, as is observed normally under resting conditions. |
Apnea | Temporary absence or cessation of breathing. (Cuando para la respiracion) |
Hyperpnea | Abnormally deep and rapid breathing. |
Bounding | A gait in which the animal progresses in a series of bounds instead of a normal walking or running gait. |
Thready | Weak, thin; shallow. |
Hyperventilation | Abnormally increased pulmonary ventilation, resulting in reduction of carbon dioxide tension, which, if prolonged, may lead to alkalosis.<<<(a pathologic condition due to accumulation of base in, or loss of acid from, the body.) |
Dyspnea | Difficult breathing |
Fever | Is any body temperature elevation over 100 °F (37.8 °C). |
Febrile | Pertaining to fever. Characterized by fever; called also feverish, pyrectic, and pyretic. |
Afebrile | Without fever. |
Angina | Severe episodes of spasmodic choking og suffocating chest pain caused by an insufficient supply of oxygen to the heart muscle |
Wheezing | |
Rales | |
Rhonchi | |
Orthopnea |