Question | Answer |
Adventitious sounds | Abnormal breath sounds. |
Afebrile | Without fever |
Alveolus | A thin walled air sac of the lungs in which the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide take place. |
Antecubital space | The space located at the front of the elbow. |
Aorta | The trunk of the artial body system |
Apena | Tempory cessation of breathing. |
Axilla | Armpit |
Bounding pulse | A pulse that feels strong and full |
Bradycardia | A slow heart rate less than 60 beats per minute. |
Bradypnea | A decrease in the respiratory rate of less than 10 respirations per minute. |
Celsius scale | Freezing point of water is zero,and the boiling point is one hundred. |
Cunduction | Transfer of energy from one object to another. |
Convection | Transfer of energy through air currents. |
Crisis | Falling of an elevated body tempature. |
Cyanosis | A bluish discoloration of the skin,and mucus membranes |
Diastole | The heart relaxes between contractions in the cardiac cycle. |
Diastolic pressure | The point of lesser preasure on the arterial wall,which is recorded during diastole. |
Dyspnea | Shortness of breath or difficulty in breathing. |
Dysrythmia | An irregular rythm,also termed arrythmia. |
Eupena | Normal respiration |
Exhalation | the act of breathing out. |
Fahrenheit scale | A tempature scale on which the freezing point of water is 32 and the boiling point is 212. |
Febrile | Pertaining to fever. |
Fever | A body tempature that is above normal;synonym for pyrexia. |
Frenulum linguae | The middline fold that connects the undersurface of the tongue with the floor of the mouth. |
Hyperpnea | An abnormal increase in the rate and depth of respiration |
Hyperporyrexia | An extremely high fever |
Hypertension | high blood preasure |
Hyperventilation | A fast and deep type of breathing.Can be associated with anxiety |
Hypopnea | An abnormal decrease in the rate and depth of respiration. |
Hypotension | low blood preasure. |
Hypothermia | A body tempature bellow normal. |
Hypoxemia | A decrease in oxygen saturation of the blood. |
Hypoxieia | A reduction in the oxygen supply to the tissues. |
Inhalation | Breathing in. |
Intercostal | Between the ribs |
Korotkoff sounds | Sounds used to determine blood preasure readings. |
Malaise | A weakness the marks the onset of a disease. |
Manometer | an instrument used for measuring blood preasure. |
Meniscus | A curved surface. |
Orthopnea | When breathing is esier if a person is sitting or standing |
Pulse oximeter | A computerized device to measure the oxygen saturation of arterial blood. |
Pulse oximetry | The use of a pulse oximeter. |
Pulse preasure | The difference between systolic and diastolic preasure. |
Pulse rhythm | The interval between heartbeats. |
Pulse volume | The strength of a heartbeat. |
Radiation | The transfer of energy in the form of waves. |
Sao2 | The percentage of hemoglobin that is saturated with oxygen. |
SpO2 | The percentage of hemoglobin saturated with oxygen measured by a pulse oximeter. |
Sphygmomanometer | Measures arterial blood preasure. |
Stethoscope | Hears sounds by the body. |
Systole | Phase where the ventricle contract in the cardiac cycle pushing blood out of the heart. |
Systolic preasure | Maximum preasure on the artial walls which is recorded during systole |
Tachycardia | Abnormally fast heart more than 100 beats per minute. |
Tachypenia | Abnormal increase in the respiratory rate more than 20 beats per minute. |
Thready pulse | A pulse with a decreased volume that sounds weak and thin. |