Nursing Terms-Week10
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| Active Transport | Movement of ions or molecules across cell membranes, usually against a pressure gradient and with expenditure of metabolic energy
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| Adaptation | Adjustment of living with other living things and environmental conditions
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| Anxiety | Vague sense of impending doom or apprehension precipitated by new or unknown experiences
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| Burnout | Behaviors exhibited as the results or prolonged occupational stress
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| Coping Mechanism | Patterns of behavior used to neutralize, deny or counteract anxiety
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| Colloid Osmotic Pressure | Pressure exerted by plasma proteins on permeable membranes in the body
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| Crisis | Occurs when coping and defense mechanism are no longer effective, resulting in high levels of anxiety and inability to function normally
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| Defense Mechanisms | Forms of self-deception; unconscious process the self uses to protect itself from anxiety or threats to self-esteem
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| Diffusion | Tendency of solutes to move freely throughout a solvent from an area of high concentration to low
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| Edema | Accumulation of fluid in extracellular spaces
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| Fight or Flight Response | The body prepares itself against threat, to either resist(fight)or evade (flight)the danger
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| Filtration | Passage of a fluid through a permeable membrane whose spaces do not allow certain solutes to pass (high to low)
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| General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) | Biochemical model of stress describing the body's general response to stress
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| Homeostasis | Various mechanisms respond to changes in the internal or external environment to maintain a balanced state
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| Hypotonic | having a lesser concentration than the solution with which it is compared to
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| Isotonic | Having about the same concentration as the solution with which it is compared to
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| Local Adaptation Syndrome (LAS) | Localized response of the body to stress; precipitated by trauma
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| Osmosis | Passage of a solvent through a semipermeable membrane from low concentration to high
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| Psychosomatic Disorder | Physiologic alterations and illness believed to be due to psychological influences
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| Stress | Condition in which the human system responds to change in its normal balanced state
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| Stressor | Anything causing a person to experience stress; change in the balanced state
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