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Medical Terms
Chapter 2 medical terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| VS | Vital signs |
| NAD | no acute distress (the patient does not display any intense symptoms) |
| Review of systems | description of individual body systems in order to discover any symptoms not directly related to the main problem |
| Chief complaint | the main reason for the patient's visit |
| Auscultation | to listen |
| Oriented | being aware of who he or she is, where he or she is, and the current time; a patient who is aware of all three is "oriented x 3" |
| Unremarkable | another way of saying normal |
| Exacerbation | it is getting worse |
| malaise | not feeling well |
| lethargic | a decrease in level of consciousness; in a medical record, this is generally an indication that the patient is really sick |