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terminology review 5
chapter five
Question | Answer |
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audiometer | an insturment used to measure hearing |
auscultation | the process of listening to the sounds produced within the body to detect signs of disease |
bariatrics | the branch of medicine that deals with the treatment and control of obesity and disease associated with obesity |
clinical diagnosis | a tentative diagnosis of a patient condition obtained through the evauation of the health history and the physical examination without the beinfit of laboratory or diagnostic tests |
diagnosis | the specific method of determining and identifying a patients condition |
differential diagnosis | a determination of which of two or more disease with the similar symptoms is producing a patients symptoms |
inspection | the process of observing a patients to detect signs od disease |
mensuration | the process of measuring a patient |
ophthalmoscope | an insturment for examining the external ear canal and tympanic membrane |
palpation | the process of feeling with the hands tp detect signs of disease |
percussion | the process of tapping the body to detect signs of disease |
percussion hammer | an insturment wit a rubber head used for testing ref;exes |
prognosis | the probable course and outcome of a patient condition and the patients prospects for recovery |
speculum | an insturmeent for opening a body orifice or cavity for viewing |
symptoms | any change in the body or its functioning that indicated a disease might be present |