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Vocab List
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Accuracy | Indicates all values are in line with calibrate values |
| Adventitious | Abnormal breath sounds |
| Ambient | Surrounding (ambient air = room air) |
| Ambulatory | Able to walk |
| Anterior | Before and in front of |
| Apneusis | Sustained inspiratory effort; caused by damaged to pons |
| Arrest | Stopped |
| Artifact | Anything artificially produced |
| Asphyxiation | Condition caused by insufficient oxygen |
| Asymmetrical | Lack of symmetry; uneven |
| Asynchrony | Not occurring in time with each other; uncoordinated |
| Ataxia | Loss of muscular function or muscular control |
| Auscultation | Listening to sounds within the body |
| Autoclave | Device that sterilizes by steam pressure for specified amount of time |
| Bilateral | On both sides |
| Biotâs | Several short breaths followed by long, irregular periods of apnea; seen with increased ICPs |
| Cachectic | ill health; malnourished; wasting appearance |
| Cheyne-Stokes | Regular periods of apnea followed by gradually increasing respiratory rate and depth |
| Clark | Oxygen measuring electrode |
| Clubbing | Enlarged toe and finger tips due to chronic hypoxemia |
| Contraindication | Reason not to do a procedure or therapy |
| Contusion | Bruise |
| Crepitus | Crackling or rattling noise made by the body; usually refers to subcutaneous emphysema |
| Cyanosi | Blue, gray, or dark purple discoloration of skin and mucus membranes caused by low oxygen |
| Diaphoresis | Sweaty |
| Diffuse | Spreading; scattered; all over |
| Diluent | Agent that dilutes; normal saline and sterile water are common diluents |
| Dysphagia | Difficulty swallowing |
| Dysphasia | Impairment of speech |
| Egophony | Abnormal change in tone; âbleating of a goatâ; heard with pleural effusion or pneumonia |
| Erratic | Wandering; fluctuating pattern; unpredictable |
| Erythema | Reddening of the skin due to irritation, inflammation, or injury |
| Exsanguination | Massive bleeding |
| Exudate | Any body fluid with high protein, cells, or solids; seen with infection (empyema) |
| Fremitus | Vibratory tremors either felt or heard through the chest wall |
| Hazard | Things that could go wrong with a procedure or therapy or medication |
| Hemoptysis | Coughing up blood |
| Hemorrhage | Blood loss |
| Herniation | Body tissue that moves through an opening or defect |
| Hyperlucency | Able to be penetrated by radial energy; more black on x-ray |
| Hyperresonant | Drum-like; tympanic; hollow; indicates areas filled with air |
| Indication | Reason to do a therapy or procedure |
| Infarct | Area of body that becomes necrotic due to lack of oxygen |
| Inferior | Lower; beneath |
| Jaundice | Yellow color of skin or mucus membranes caused by too much bilirubin |
| Kussmaulâs | Very rapid, deep breathing; seen with diabetic ketoacidosis |
| Laceration | Cut; tear in the flesh |
| Lateral | The side |
| Lethargic | Sleepy, drowsy, somnolent, mentally sluggish , slow to respond |
| Linearity | Similar to; indicates values are within a small range of each other |
| Marked | Obvious; easy to see |
| Medial | Middle |
| Modalities | Method of doing a therapy or procedure |
| Necrosis | Death of cells, tissues, organs |
| Obtunded | Diminished arousal and awareness |
| Opacity | Opaque; on x-ray, more light (white) |
| Orthopnea | Difficulty breathing while lying down |
| Palpation | Examination by touching or feeling |
| Paradoxical | Opposite; illogical |
| Paralytic | Agent that paralyzes muscles (but person still wide awake and able to feel pain) |
| Parameters | Values |
| Paresthesia | Numbness; prickly or tingling feeling |
| Pasteurization | Process of heating fluid for specific amount of time to kill bacteria |
| Percussion | Striking the body surface to hear air or fluid |
| Pectoriloquy | Transmission of vocal sounds through the chest; âwhisperedâ = pleural effusion |
| Posterior | Back; rear; behind |
| Precise | Indicates readings coincide with each other, but may not with calibration |
| Prone | Face down; lying on the belly |
| Purulent | Containing pus |
| Radiodense | X-rays cannot permeate tissue; same as radiopaque; more white on film |
| Reproducibility | Readings do not vary by more than +/- 5% |
| Reticulonodular | Honeycombing on x-ray; indicates fibrosis or ARDS |
| Sanz | pH measuring electrode |
| Sedative | Soothing or tranquilizer get agent |
| Severinghaus | Carbon dioxide measuring electrode |
| Stuporous | Unawareness; altered mental status where patient is only aroused by vigorous stimulation |
| Subcutaneous | Beneath the skin |
| Superior | Higher than; above; on top of |
| Supine | Lying on the back, face up |
| Syncope | Fainting |
| Tactile | Perceived through touch |
| Transcutaneous | Across the skin |
| Transillumination | Inspection of organs by passing light through its walls |
| Translucent | Permitting passage of light |
| Transudate | Thin, watery fluid that passes through capillary walls; seen with CHF |
| Tremors | Involuntary quivering of a body part |
| Tympanic | Drum-like; hollow; hyperresonant; indicates air |
| Unilateral | On one side |
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