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137 nursing skill as
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| eupnea | normal breathing |
| dyspnea | difficulty breathing |
| tachypnea | fast breathing |
| cheyne stokes | apnea with rapid respiration |
| apnea | absence of breathing |
| kussmaul's | fast deep respirations (normally with diabetic acidosis |
| biots | increased intercranial presure; short breaths with rapid respiration |
| crackles | fine, coarse sounds. Similar to sound produced by rubbing hairs between the fingers close to ear |
| ronchi | coarse, low pitched, sonorous, rattling sounds caused by secretions in the larger air passages |
| pleural friction rub | grating or scratchy sound similar to creaking shoe leather or opening a squeky door. |
| stridor | croaking sound heard when there is partial obstruction of the upper air passages |
| wheezes | whistling, musical, high pitched sound produced by air being forced through a narrow pathway |
| subjective | what the patient tells you |
| objective | observation |
| ascites | abnormal accumulation of serous fluid within the peritoneal cavity |
| bruit | abnormal sound heard on auscultation, a kind of swishing sound |
| ecchymosis | blue or purplish patch on the skin or mucouse membrane that is not elevated; bruising |
| cyanosis | a bluish tinge to the skin, nail beds, or mucous membranes, indicating a significant decrease in oxygenation |
| erythema | redness of the skin caused by congestion of the capillaries in the lower layers of the skin that occurs with any skin injury, infection or inflammation |
| extension posture | arms are stiffly extended, adducted, and hyperpronated with hyperextension of the legs and plantar flexion of the feet; indicates disruption of the motor fibers in the midbrain and brainstem |
| fissure | a narrow slit |
| flexion posture | internal rotation and adduction of the arms with flexion of the elbows, wrists and fingers, resulting from neurologic injury and interruption of voluntary motor tracts; extension of the legs may also be seen |
| guaiac | test for blood in the stool |
| gurgles | wet sounds heard when auscultating the lungs; new term for rhonchi; it also occurs in the bowel |
| patent | freely open |
| petechiae | pinpoint, round, purplish red spots that are not raised, caused by intradermal or submucosal hemorrhage |
| rinne test | a test to compare bone and air conduction of sound, preformed with a tuning fork |
| sanguineous | body |
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