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Bonewit chapter 4
Vital signs
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adventitious sounds | Abnormal breath sounds. |
| Afebrile | Without fever |
| Alveolus | A thin walled air sac of the lungs in which the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide take place. |
| Antecubital space | The space located at the front of the elbow. |
| Aorta | The trunk of the artial body system |
| Apena | Tempory cessation of breathing. |
| Axilla | Armpit |
| Bounding pulse | A pulse that feels strong and full |
| Bradycardia | A slow heart rate less than 60 beats per minute. |
| Bradypnea | A decrease in the respiratory rate of less than 10 respirations per minute. |
| Celsius scale | Freezing point of water is zero,and the boiling point is one hundred. |
| Cunduction | Transfer of energy from one object to another. |
| Convection | Transfer of energy through air currents. |
| Crisis | Falling of an elevated body tempature. |
| Cyanosis | A bluish discoloration of the skin,and mucus membranes |
| Diastole | The heart relaxes between contractions in the cardiac cycle. |
| Diastolic pressure | The point of lesser preasure on the arterial wall,which is recorded during diastole. |
| Dyspnea | Shortness of breath or difficulty in breathing. |
| Dysrythmia | An irregular rythm,also termed arrythmia. |
| Eupena | Normal respiration |
| Exhalation | the act of breathing out. |
| Fahrenheit scale | A tempature scale on which the freezing point of water is 32 and the boiling point is 212. |
| Febrile | Pertaining to fever. |
| Fever | A body tempature that is above normal;synonym for pyrexia. |
| Frenulum linguae | The middline fold that connects the undersurface of the tongue with the floor of the mouth. |
| Hyperpnea | An abnormal increase in the rate and depth of respiration |
| Hyperporyrexia | An extremely high fever |
| Hypertension | high blood preasure |
| Hyperventilation | A fast and deep type of breathing.Can be associated with anxiety |
| Hypopnea | An abnormal decrease in the rate and depth of respiration. |
| Hypotension | low blood preasure. |
| Hypothermia | A body tempature bellow normal. |
| Hypoxemia | A decrease in oxygen saturation of the blood. |
| Hypoxieia | A reduction in the oxygen supply to the tissues. |
| Inhalation | Breathing in. |
| Intercostal | Between the ribs |
| Korotkoff sounds | Sounds used to determine blood preasure readings. |
| Malaise | A weakness the marks the onset of a disease. |
| Manometer | an instrument used for measuring blood preasure. |
| Meniscus | A curved surface. |
| Orthopnea | When breathing is esier if a person is sitting or standing |
| Pulse oximeter | A computerized device to measure the oxygen saturation of arterial blood. |
| Pulse oximetry | The use of a pulse oximeter. |
| Pulse preasure | The difference between systolic and diastolic preasure. |
| Pulse rhythm | The interval between heartbeats. |
| Pulse volume | The strength of a heartbeat. |
| Radiation | The transfer of energy in the form of waves. |
| Sao2 | The percentage of hemoglobin that is saturated with oxygen. |
| SpO2 | The percentage of hemoglobin saturated with oxygen measured by a pulse oximeter. |
| Sphygmomanometer | Measures arterial blood preasure. |
| Stethoscope | Hears sounds by the body. |
| Systole | Phase where the ventricle contract in the cardiac cycle pushing blood out of the heart. |
| Systolic preasure | Maximum preasure on the artial walls which is recorded during systole |
| Tachycardia | Abnormally fast heart more than 100 beats per minute. |
| Tachypenia | Abnormal increase in the respiratory rate more than 20 beats per minute. |
| Thready pulse | A pulse with a decreased volume that sounds weak and thin. |
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justine whitley
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