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Peri vocab 5
WillWallace Perinatology ch 5 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acrocyanosis | condition in the newborn characterized by a cyanotic discolorization of the hands and feet, aka peripheral acrocyanosis of the newborn |
| alae nasi | external border at opening of nasal passage, cartilaginous, maintains patency of nasal opening during spont breathing |
| anencephaly | genetic defect in which brain and spinal cord are absent, cranium is open, vertebral canal remains a groove |
| caput succedaneum | localized pitting edema found in the scalp of a newborn that may overlie sutures, results from press of cervix on fetal head, not dangerous, last a few days |
| Doppler | change in frequency when a sound is emitted by an object moving toward or away an observer, Doppler scanner-ultrasonic waves reflected from moving (heart) yield info about the structure |
| fontanelle | space on a newborn cranium between cranial bones, covered by tough membrane |
| hydrocephaly | a pathologic condition characterized by abnormal accumulation of cerebral fluid with in the cranial vault-results in dilated ventricals |
| hyperpnea | deep, labored or rapid respiration |
| hypopnea | shallow or slow respiration |
| lanugo | fine, downy hair that covers fetal body, appears at 26 weeks, thins at 28, starts to disappear at 32, gone by 40 |
| methacholine | cholinergic, aerosolized and used to confirm asthma |
| murmur | low pitched fluttering or humming heard just before, during or after the normal heart sounds |
| paradoxical | situation or occurrence in which the outcome is the opposite of what is expected |
| pinna | cartilage portion of the external ear |
| pleural iffusion | abnormal fluid in the pleural space, transudate-protein free (from tissue), exudate-high protein ( from blood vascular) |
| pneumotachograph | instrument that measures velocity of expired velocity of gas flows |
| rugae | ridges or folds of skin, found in stomach and mature male scrotum |
| scaphoid | sunken anterior abdominal wall |
| thoracic gas volume | volume of gas in the thorax as measured by the body plethysmograph, may or may not include conductive airway gas |
| vernix | off white cheese-like substance that covers the skin of the fetus and newborn, composed of sebaceous gland secretions, lanugo and epithelial cells, thermoregulation and passage through canal |
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