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Ch. 16 Testing 1,2,3
Veterinary Medical Terminology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Assessment | used to describe the evaluation of a condition |
| Signalment | description of the animal with information about the animal including the species, breed, age, and sexual status (intact or neutered) |
| Vital signs | parameters taken from the animal to assess it's health |
| Fever | an elevated body temperature |
| Febrile or Pyrexia | medical term for fever |
| Pry/o | meaning "fire" |
| Hypothermia | decrease in body temperature |
| Pulse | number of times the heart beats in a minute |
| Pulse rate | the pulse (different name) |
| Heart rate | the number of times the heart contracts and relaxes per minute, abbr. HR |
| Respiration | number of respirations per minute |
| Respiration rate | abbr. RR number of respirations per minute |
| Blood pressure | abr. BP |
| Sphygmomanometer | an instrument used to measure blood pressure |
| Auscultation | the act of listening, usually involving a stethoscope |
| Palpation | examination by feeling |
| Percussion | examination by tapping the surface to determine |
| Speculum | an instrument to enlarge an opening. |
| Venipuncture | the act of drawing blood from a vein with a needle and syringe |
| Refractometer | instrument used to determine the deviation of light through objects |
| agglutination | clumping together of cells of particles |
| Assay | assessment or test to determine the number of organisms, cells |
| Complete blood count (CBC) | diagnostic evaluation of blood to determine the number to erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes per cubic millimeter of blood |
| Differential | diagnosis eval. of the number and types of white blood cells in a cubic ML of blood |
| Diluent | liquid used to make a solution |
| Enzyme linked immunosorbent assey | laboratory tests used to determine either an antigen, or antibody in blood abbr. ELISA |
| Hematocrit | percentage of erythrocytes in blood (to separate blood )also called Crit, PCV, or Packed cell volume |
| Hemogram | recording the findings in examination fo blood especially with reference to the numbers proportions, and morphology |
| Immunofluorescnce | method of tagging antibodies with a limiting is a little slim, right now. |
| Leukogram | numeric and descriptive data in the distrobution |
| profile (screen, panel) | group of labratory tests performed on serum |
| Prothrombin Time | diagnostic evaluation of the number of seconds needed for thromboplastin to coagulate |
| radioimmunoassey | lab technique in which a radioactively labeled substance is mixed with a blood specimen to determine the amount of a particular substance in teh mix, aka radioassay |
| red cell count | number of erythrocytes per cubic mL of blood |
| serology | Laberatory study of serum and the reactions of antigens of antibiotics |
| white cell count | number of leukocytes per cubuc feet |
| Centrifuge | a machine that spins samples very rapidly to seperate elements based on density |
| Ph Status: Acid | a low pH |
| pH status base | aka Alkaline, high pH |
| Pathogen | microorganisms that produce disease |
| microorganism | livign organism of microscopic size |
| Virulence | used to describe the ability of organism to cause disease |
| Disease | deviation from normal |
| Contagious disease (Communicable) | disease that can be spread from one animal to another |
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