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Module 11
Vital Signs
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Diagnosis | The determination of the cause of the nature of the disease |
| Medical diagnosis | The determination of the cause and nature of the disease after all tests, procedures, and examinations. |
| Clinical diagnosis | Also called working diagnosis. A preliminary presumptive diagnosis made by the physician based on the health history and physical examination |
| Differential diagnosis | The determination of which of several diseases is the cause of a problem |
| Prognosis | The prediction of the course of the disease and the recovery rate |
| Subjective symptoms | Complaints that are felt by a patient but are not apparent to observers or measurable |
| Objective symptoms | Complaints that are felt by patient and our parent to observers or measurable |
| anthropometry | The science of size, proportion, weight, and height |
| Vital signs | The pulse, blood pressure, body temperature, and rate, rhythm, and depth of respirations |
| Metabolism | The sum of all physical and chemical changes that take place within the human body |
| pyrexia | A body temperature above 100.4°F. Also called fever. |
| Febrile | Having a body temperature above 100.4°F |
| Afebrile | The absence of a fever |
| Bounding pulse | An increased volume of force in the pulse |
| Thready pulse | Barely perceptible volume or force in the pulse |
| Apical | The heart rate counted at the apex of the heart |
| Pulse deficit | The difference between the radial pulse and the apical pulse |
| apnea | lack of breathing |
| eupnea | normal breathing |
| cyanosis | A condition in which the patient does not take in enough oxygen during inhalation, resulting in an increase in carbon dioxide in the blood and a bluish tent to the skin and nail beds |
| acute pain | pain that typically lasts less than 3 to 6 months, or pain that is directly related to soft tissue damage |
| chronic pain | Pain that persists over a long period of time |
| intractable pain | severe, constant pain that is not curable by any known means and which causes a bed or house-bound state and early death if not adequately treated |
| palpatory method | Inflate the cuff rapidly to 70 mmHg, and increase by 10 mm Hg increments while palpating the radial pulse. Note the level of pressure at which the pulse disappears and subsequently reappears during deflation will be systolic blood pressure. |
| radiating pain | a sign that a nerve or nerve roots along the spinal column are under pressure from injury or inflammation. |
| referred pain | pain felt in a part of the body other than its actual source. |
| hypothermia | body temperature below 97 F |
| hyperthermia | body temperature greater than 105.8 F |
| oral temp | taken in the mouth |
| axillary temp | taken in the axilla (under the arm) |
| aural temp | taken in the ear canal |
| rectal temp | taken in the rectum |
| radial pulse | Thumb side of the wrist about 1 inch below the base of the wrist |
| Brachial pulse | Antecubital fossa or inner aspect of the elbow |
| Carotid pulse | At the side of the neck between the larynx and the sternocleidomastoid muscle |
| Temporal pulse | At the side of the head just above the ear |
| Femoral pulse | In the groin where the femoral artery passes to the leg |
| popliteal pulse | Behind the knee |
| dorsalis pedis | Top of the foot |
| Korotkoff sounds | the sounds actually heard as the arterial wall distends during the compression of the blood pressure cuff |
| Hypertension | a condition of consistently elevated blood pressure |
| hypotension | condition of abnormally low blood pressure |
| orthostatic hypotension | A temporary fall in blood pressure that occurs when a patient rapidly moves from a lying to a standing position |
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