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Terminology4
Question | Answer |
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Tachypnea | Rapid breathing. |
Bradypnea | Slow breathing ,refers to an abnormally slow breathing rate. The rate at which bradypnea is diagnosed depends upon the age of the patient. |
Tachycardia | Rapid Heart Rate |
Bradycardia | Slowness Heart Rate |
Systole | Term describing the 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. |
Eupnea | normal relaxed breathing. |
Apnea | Term for suspension of external breathing. Temporary cessation of breathing, esp. during sleep. |
Hyperpnea | energetic (deep and rapid) respiration that occurs normally after exercise or abnormally with fever or various disorders. |
Bounding | To leap forward or upward; spring. |
Thready | Of, relating to, or resembling a thread. Consisting of or resembling thread; filamentous. |
Hyperventilation | is the state of breathing faster and/or deeper than normal |
Dyspnea | Difficulty in breathing often associated with lung or heart disease |
Fever | 1.An abnormally high body temperature, usually accompanied by shivering, headache, and in severe instances, delirium. |
Febrile | Of, relating to, or characterized by fever; feverish. |
Afebrile | Having no fever. |
Angina | A condition, such as severe sore throat, in which spasmodic attacks of suffocating pain occur. |
Wheezing | To breathe with difficulty, producing a hoarse whistling sound |
Rales | An abnormal respiratory sound characterized by fine crackles. |
Rhonchi | A coarse rattling sound somewhat like snoring, usually caused by secretion in a bronchial tube |
Orthopnea | a respiratory ailment in which the sufferer can breathe only when standing upright |