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Fund-1 U7
Vital Signs
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Afebrile | without fever |
| Crisis | sudden drop from pyrexia to normal body temperature: w/i 24hrs |
| Febrile | Pertaining to a fever; feverish |
| Intermittent Fever | temperature that alternates between fever and normal or subnormal temps |
| Lysis | Gradual return from pyrexia to normal body temperature; occurs over several days |
| Relapsing Fever | A temperature that alternates between fever and normal or subnormal body temperature |
| Remittent fever | Temperature returns to normal at least a day, then fever occurs again |
| Auscultation | The act of externally listening to sounds within the body by using a stethoscope |
| Bounding | Difficult to obliterate with pressure; full |
| Obliterate | Obstruct or block off |
| Palpitation | A rapid or throbbing heartbeat that can be sensed by the person |
| Thready | The pulse is irregular with a weak force; volume is small and artery is readily obliterated |
| Anoxia | Deficiency of oxygen supply to the tissues |
| Apnea | Cessation of breathing |
| Cyanosis | Bluish color of skin due to lack of oxygen |
| Dyspnea | Labored or difficulty breathing |
| Eupnea | Normal respiration |
| Auscultatory Gap | Disappearance of sound when obtaining a blood pressure; 1-2 K sound |
| Diastole | Period of time b/w contraction of Atria or the Ventricles during which blood enter or relaxed chambers |
| Pulse Pressure | Difference between the systolic and diastolic pressure |
| Systole | Contraction of the heart, driving into the aorta and pulmonary arteries, indicated by the 1st heart sound heard on auscultation |
| Core Temperature | Temp of deep tissue |
| Hypothalamus | Controls body temperature |
| Basal metabolic rate | Heat produced by the body at absolute rest |
| Radiation | transfer from one object to another ( w/out direct contact) |
| Conduction | transfer from one object to another ( w/ direct contact) |
| Convention | Transfer of heat away from air movement |
| Evaporation | Transfer of heat energy when a liquid is changed to a gas |
| Temporal | lateral to eye |
| Carotid | lateral neck |
| Apical | 5th intercostal space at midclavicular line |
| Brachial | near AC |
| Radial | thumb side |
| Ulnar | inside wrist |
| Femoral | groin |
| Popliteal | behind knee |
| Posterior tibial | inner ankle |
| Dorsalis pedis | top of foot |
| 1st sound | clear rhythmical tapping (systolic) |
| 2nd sound | murmur/ swishing as cuff deflates |
| 3rd sound | crisper/ more intense tapping |
| 4th sound | muffled/ low pitches (diastolic infants/ children) |
| 5th sound | absence of sound (diastolic) |
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