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PV & Lymphatic Sys
Health Assessment Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allen Test | Determining the patency of the radial and ulnar arteries by compressing one artery site and observing return of skin color as evidence of patency of the other artery |
| Aneurysm | Defect or sac formed by dilation in artery wall due to atherosclerosis, trauma, or congenital defect |
| Arrhythmia | Variation from the heart's normal rhythm |
| Arteriosclerosis | Thickening and loss of elasticity of the arterial walls |
| Atherosclerosis | Plaques of fatty deposits formed in the inner layer (intima) of the arteries |
| Bradychardia | Slow heart rate, <50 beats per minute in the adult |
| Bruit | Blowing, swooshing shound heard through a stethoscope when an artery is partially occluded |
| Cyanosis | Dusky blue mottling of the skin and mucous membranes due to excessive amount of reduced hemoglobin in the blood |
| Diastole | The heart's filling phase |
| Homans' Sign | Calf pain that occurs when the foot is sharply dorsiflexed (pushed up, toward the knee); may occur with deep vein thrombosis, phlebitis, Achilles tendinitis, or muslce injury |
| Ischemia | Deficiency of arterial blood to a body part due to constrcition or obstruction of a blood vessel |
| Lymphedema | Swelling of extremity due to obstructed lymph channel, nonpitting |
| Lymph nodes | Small oval clumps of lymphatic tissue located at grouped intervals along lymphatic vessels |
| Pitting edema | Indentation left after examiner depresses the skin over swollen edematous tissue |
| Profile Sign | Viewing the finger from the side to detect early clubbing |
| Pulse | Pressure wave created by each heartbeat, palpable at body sites where the artery lies close to the skin and over a bone |
| Pulsus alternans | Regular rhythm, but force of pulse varies with alternating beats of large and small amplitude |
| Pulsus bigeminus | Irregular rhythm, every other beat is premature; premature beats have weakened amplitude |
| Pulsus paradoxus | Beats have weaker amplitude with respiratory inspiration, stronger with expiration |
| Systole | The heart's pumping phase |
| Tachycardia | Rapid heart rate, >90 beats per minute in the adult |
| Thrombophlebitis | Inflammation of the vein associated with thrombus formation |
| Ulcer | Open skin lesion extending into dermis with sloughing of necrotic inflammatory tissue |
| Varicose vein | Dilated tortuous veins with incompetent valves |
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