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TermDefinition
Acute pain Short term pain
Amplify Make stronger or louder
Auscultation Listening with a stethoscope.
Bimanual Using both hands
Chief complaint (CC) Main reason for the visit
Chronic pain Long-lasting pain
ClinicalClinical diagnosis Diagnosis based on symptoms and exam only
Diagnose Find out what's wrong
Differential diagnosis List of possible problems.
Duration How long it lasts.
Fenestrated drape Sheet with a hole used during exams.
Frequency How often something happens.
Goniometer Tool to measure joint movement.
Inspection Looking at the body.
Intractable pain Pain that won’t go away.
Laryngeal mirror Mirror to look at throat.
Manipulation Moving body parts to check them.
Mensuration Measuring the body.
Objective What you can see or measure.
Onset: When it started. When it started
Ophthalmoscope: Tool to look in the eyes. Tool to look in the eyes
Otoscope: Tool to look in the ears. Tool to look in the ears
Palpation: Feeling with hands. feeling with hands
Percussion: Tapping to hear body sounds. tapping to hear body sounds
Phantom pain: Pain in a missing body part. Pain in a missing body part
Pinwheel: Tool to test feeling on skin. tool to test feeling on skin
Present illness (PI): Info about current problem. Info about current problem
Prognosis: Expected outcome. Expected outcome
Radiating pain: Pain spreading outward. Pain spreading outward
Referred pain: Pain felt somewhere else. Pain felt somewhere else
Reflex hammer: Tool to test reflexes. Tool to test reflexes
Review of systems (ROS): Questions about body systems. questions about the body systems
Speculum: Tool to open a body area. Tool to open a body are
Subjective: What the patient says. What the patient says
Tuning fork: Tests hearing or feeling. Tests hearing or feelings
Turgor: Skin stretch (hydration check). Skin stretch (hydration check)
Vaginal speculum: Opens vagina for exam. opens vagina for exam
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