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Ms. driscoll period2
health science 2 ...
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| vital signs | determinations that provide information about basic body conditions. |
| temperature | measurment of balence between heat loss and heat gain |
| pulse | is the pressure of the blood felt against the wall of an artery |
| rate | number of beats per minutes |
| rhythm | refers to regularity |
| volume | refers to strength |
| respirations | reflet the breathing rate of the patient |
| blood presure | force exerted by the blood against the arterial walls |
| apical pulse | pulse taken with stethoscope at the apex of the heart |
| homeostaisis | ideal health state in human body |
| oral temperature | temp. taken in mouth |
| rectal temperature | temp. taken in the rectum |
| axillary temperature | temp. taken in the armpit |
| aural temperature | temp. taken with a spacial thermometer placed in the ear. |
| temporal temperature | thermometer placed across the forehead which measures temp. in temporal artery. |
| hypothermia | body temp. under 95F |
| fever | elevated body temp. over 101F |
| pyrexia | another term for fever |
| hyperthermia | nody temp. over 140F |
| clinical thermometers | used for measuring temp. |
| electronic thermometers | registers temperature on a viewer |
| tympanic thermometers | records temp. in ear |
| temporal scanning thermometers | measures temp in temporal artery |
| bradycardia | pulse rate under 60 per min. |
| tachycardia | pulse rate over 100 per min. |
| arrhythmia | abnormal rythm caused by a defect in electrical conduction pattern in heart |
| character | depth and quality of respiration |
| dyspnea | diffulculty breathing |
| apnea | no respiration |
| tachypnea | rapid shallow respitory rate above 25 respirations per minute |
| bradypnea | low respiration rate 10 rpm |
| orthopnea | severe dyspnea breathing super difficult |
| cheyne-stokes | abnormal breathing pattern characterised by dyspnea (dying patient) |
| rales | bubbly noisy sounds caused by mucus |
| wheezing | dificulty breathing with loud whistling |
| cyanosis | bluish discoloration of skin |
| respiration | intaking O2 and exhaling CO2 |
| stethoscope | instrument used to hear body sounds |
| pulse deficit | heart dosent pump enough blood |
| systolic | pressure occurs in arterie walls |
| diastolic | pressure is constant in artery walls |
| pulse pressure | diffrence between systolic and diastolic |
| hypertention | high blood presure above 140mm |
| hypotention | pressure less than 90mm hg |
| phygmomanometer | instument used to take blood pressure |
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jesse alonso
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