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Health Safety-4
Key terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Body Temperature | balance between the heat produced by the body and the heat lost from the body |
| Core Temperature | temperature of the deep tissues of the body |
| Surface Temperature | temperature of tissue, such as subcutaneous tissue or fat |
| Radiation | transfer of heat from the surface of one object to the surface of another without contact between the two objects. |
| Conduction | transfer of heat from one molecule to another in direct contact |
| Convection | the dispersion of heat through air currents |
| Vaporization | continoous evaporation of moisture from the respiratory tract, oral mucousa and skin |
| Insensible water loss | continous and unnoticed water loss |
| Insensible heat loss | heat loss that occurs from the evaporation of moisture from the respiratory tract, mucousa of the mouth and the skin |
| Pyrexia | body temperature above the normal range; fever |
| Hypothermia | core body temperature below the lower limit of normal |
| Hyperthermia | extremely high body temperature |
| Pulse | the wave of blood within an artery that is created by contraction of the left ventricle of the heart |
| Respiration | the act of breathing, transport of oxygen from the atmosphere to the body cells and of carbon dioxide from the cells to the atmosphere. |
| blood pressure | the force exerted on arterial walls by blood flowing within the vessels |
| Apical pulse | a central pulse located at the apex of the heart |
| Pulse deficit | the difference between the apical and radial pulse |
| Adventitious breath sounds | abnormal or acquired breath sounds |
| Palpation | the examination of the body using the sense of touch |
| Percussion | a method in which the body surface is struck to elicit sounds or vibrations |
| Auscultation | process of listening to sounds produced within the body |
| Korotkoff sounds | a series of 5 sounds produced by blood within the artery with each ventriclar contraction |
| Systolic pressure | the pressure of blood against the arterial walls when the heart contracts |
| Diastolic pressure | the pressure of the blood against the arterial walls when the heart is at rest. |
| Pulse pressure | the difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressures |
| Coping | dealing with change |
| Burnout | a complex syndrome of behaviors that can be likened to the exhaustion stage of the general adaptation syndrome |
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