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Vocabulary for Final ( Basic Nursing 7th Edition) Fall 2012

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A person's definition and interpretation of symptoms anduse of the health care system   Illness behavior  
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A belief that patients have the authority to be active participants in determining their health and well-being   Holistic behavior  
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Longer than 6 months' duration   Chronic illness  
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A subjective concept of physical appearance   Body image  
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Developmental stage, intellectual background, emotional and spiritual factors   Internal variables  
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Short term and severe   Acute illness  
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Addresses the relationship between a person's beliefs and behaviors   Health belief model  
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Nationwide health insurance program that provides benefits to individuals older than 65 years of age   Medicare  
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Intergration of best knowledge, clinical expertise, and patient values   Evidence-based  
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Fixed amount of payment for services per enrollee   Capitation  
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Short-term relief for persons providing care to ill, disabled   Respite care  
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Income eligibility for covers below the federal poverty level   Medicaid  
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Patient responses directly related to nursing care   Nursing-sensitive outcomes  
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Administrative control over primary health care services practice for a defined patient population   Managed care  
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Worldwide in scope   Globalization  
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Multidisciplinary treatment plan that patients need for aspecific condition   Critical pathway  
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A program to recognize health care organization that achieve excellence in nursing practice   Magnet status  
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Completed when anything unusual happens that could potentially cause harm to a patient, visitor, or employee   Incident report  
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Any willful attempt or treat to harm another person   Assault  
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A civil wrong or injury for which remedy is in the form of money damages   Tort  
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A crime of a serious nature that usually carries a penalty of imprisonment   Felony  
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Limitation of liability for health care professionals offering assistance at the scene of an acsident   Good Samaritan law  
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Conduct that falls below the standard of care   Negligence  
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Any intentional touching of another person's body without consent   Battery  
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A form of contemporary laws created by elected legislative bodies   Statutory law  
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Documents instructing physicians to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining procedures   Living wills  
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A form of contemporary law created by judicial decision in court when cases are decided   Common law  
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Process of recalling an event to determine its meaning and purpose   Reflection  
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Series of clinical judgments that result in informal or formal diagnoses   Diagnostic reasoning  
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End point of critical thinking that leads to problem resolution   Decision making  
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Inner sensing that something is so   Intuition  
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Process that moves from observable facts from an experience to a reasonable explanation of those facts   Scientific method  
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unintended effect of a medication, diagnostic test, or intervention   Adverse reaction  
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Observations or measurements made by the nurse during assessment   Objective data  
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Comparing data with another source to determine accuracy and relevancy   Validation  
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Multidisciplinary, outcome-based care plan   Critical pathway  
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Clinical judgement about patient responses to health prolems or life processes   Nursing diagnosis  
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Information obtained through the senses   Cue  
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Activities performed in the course of a normal day   ADLs  
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Support for why a specific nursing action is chosen   Scientific rationale  
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Interpretation of cues   Inference  
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Information verbally provided by the patient   Subjective data  
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An oral or written exchange of information between health care providers   Report  
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Information about patients rovided only to appropriate personnel   Confidentiality  
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Permanent written communication with patient's health care management   Record  
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Structured method of documentation with emphasis on the patient's problems   POMR  
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Documentation that requires staff to identify intervntions and allows patients to be compared with one another   Acuity recording  
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Person who initiates interpersonal communication   Sender  
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Information sent or expressed by the sender   Message  
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Means of conveying messages   Channels  
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Person to whom the message is sent   Receiver  
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Indicates whether the meaning of the sender's message was received   Feedback  
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Motivates one person to communicate with another   Referent  
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Shades or interpretations of a word's meaning rather than different definitions   Connotations  
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Tone of the speaker's voice that may affect a message's meaning   Intonation  
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A message within a message that conveys a sender's attitude toward the self and toward the listender   Metacommunication  
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Development of a working, functional relationship by the nurse with the patient, fulfilling the purposes of the nursing process   Therapeutic communication  
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Arise from microorganisms outside the patient   Exogenous infection  
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Cellular response to injury or infection   Inflammation  
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Microorganisms that cause another infection because they are resistant to antibiotics   Suprainfection  
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Infection that developed that was not present at the time of patient admission   Health care-associated infection  
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Methods to reduce or eliminate disease-producing microorganisms   Aseptic technique  
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Microorganisms that do not cause disease but help to maintain health   Flora  
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Process that eliminates all forms of microbial life   Sterilization  
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Disease-producing microorganism   Pathogen  
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Substance formed through the inflammatory process that may ooze from openings in the skin or mucous membranes   Exudate  
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Microorganism that grows but does not cause disease   Colonization  
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Ability of microoganisms to produce diease   Virulence  
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Being more than normally vulnerable to a disease   Susceptibility  
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Alteration of a patient's flora with a resulting overgrowth   Endogenous infection  
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Decrease of systolic and diastolic pressures below normal   Hypotension  
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Another word for fever   Febrile  
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Rate and depth torespirations increase   Hyperventilation  
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Widening of blood vessels   Vasodilation  
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Pulse rate less than 60 beats per minute for an adult   Bradycardia  
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140/90 mm Hg for two or more readings   Hypertension  
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Rate of breathing abnormally rapid   Tachypnea  
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Decreased body temperature   Hypothermia  
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No resirations for several seconds   Apnea  
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Rate of breathing abnormally slow   Bradypnea  
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Normal breathing   Eupnea  
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Temporary disappearance of sounds between Korotkoff sounds   Auscultatory gap  
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Process of adapting to and adopting a new culture   Acculturation  
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Shared identity related to social and cultural heritage   Ethnicity  
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Tendency to categorize people into particular pattern without further assessment   Stereotyping  
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Attitudes associating negative characteristics to people perceived to be different from oneself   Prejudices  
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Integrated patterns of human behavior, including language, customs, and beliefs   Culture  
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Common biological characteristics shared by a group of people   Race  
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Cognitive stance or perspective about phenomena characteristic of a particular cultural group   Worldview  
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Giving up ethnic identity in favor of the dominant culture   Assimilation  
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Holding one's own way of life as superior to other   Ethnocentrism  
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Distinct discipline focused on the comparative study of cultures to understand similarities   Transcultural nursing  
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Does not believe in the existence of a supreme spiritual being or god   Atheist  
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Cultural or institutional religion   Faith  
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Awareness of one's inner self and a sense of connection to a higher being   Spirituality  
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Belief that ultimate reality in unknown or unknowable   Agnostic  
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having close spiritual relationships with oneself, others, and a god or other spiritual being   Connectedness  
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Development of cognition   Piaget  
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Psychosexual focus   Freud  
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Based on human needs   Maslow  
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Moral development   Kohlberg  
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Psychosocial development   Erikson  
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Set of conscious and unconscious feelings and beliefs about oneself   Self-concept  
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Set of behaviors that have been approved by family, community, and culture as appropriate in particular situations   Role  
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Clear, persistent preference for persons of one sex   Sexual orientation  
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Emotional evluation of self-worth   Self-esteem  
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experiences and attitudes related to appearance and physical abilities   body image  
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sense of femaleness or maleness   sexuality  
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irrational fear of homosexuality   homophobia  
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persistent individuality and sameness of a person over time and in various circumstances   identity  
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increasing flexibility of family's boundaries to include children's independence   family with adolescents  
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accepting parent-offspring separation   unattached young adult  
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accepting shifting of generational roles   family in later life  
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committing to a new system   newly married couple  
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accepting a multitude of exits from and entries into the family system   family with young adults  
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awareness of the position of the body and its parts   proprioception  
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resistance that moving body meets from the surface on which it moves   friction  
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manner or style of walking   gait  
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lying face up   supine  
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lying face down   prone  
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movement of the foot where the toes point upward   dorsiflexion  
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maintenance of optimal body poisition   posture  
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body alignment during walking, turning, lefting or carrying   body mechanics  
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mobility of the joint   range of motion  
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inflammation of the skin characterized by abrupt onset with erythema, pruritus, pain and scaly oozing lesions   contact dermatitis  
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thickened portion of the peidermis, usually flat and painless on the undersurface of the foot or hand   callus  
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inflammation of the tissue surrounding the nail   paronychia  
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scraping or rubbing away of the epidermis, resulting in localized bleeding   abrasion  
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keratosis caused by friction and pressure from shoes, mainly on toes   corn  
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fungating lesion that appears on the sole of the foot   plantar wart  
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loss of hair   alopecia  
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collapse of alveoli, preventing exchange of oxygen   atelectasis  
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tachypnea pattern of breathing associated with metabolitc acidosis   kussmaul respiration  
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need to sit upright to breathe easier   orthopnea  
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collection of air in the pleural space   pneumothorax  
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bloody sputum   hemoptysis  
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inadequate tissue oxygenation at the cellular level   hypoxia  
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amount of blood in the ventricles at the end of diastole   preload  
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collection of blood in the pleural space   hemothorax  
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resistance of ejection of blood from the left ventricle   after load  
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difficulty breathing, sensation of breathlessness   dyspnea  
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cessation of breathing for periods of time during sleep   sleep apnea  
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a decrease in the amount, quality, and consistency of sleep   sleep deprviation  
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awaking at night to urinate   nocturia  
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sudden muscle weakness during intense emotions   cataplexy  
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difficulty falling or staying asleep   insomnia  
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24-hour day/night cycle   circadian rhythm  
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disorder that produces abnormal behavior or emotions   parasomnia  
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excessive sleepiness during the day   sleep apnea  
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local anesthesia, with minimal sedation, given between the vertebrae   epidural infusion  
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unpleasnat, subjective sensory and emotional experience   pain  
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partial or complete disappearance of symptoms   remission  
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extends from the point of injury to another body area   radiating pain  
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rapid onset, lasts briefly   acute pain  
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localized, sharp sensation resulting from stimulation of the skin   superficial pain  
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increase in the severity of symptoms   exacerbation  
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classiication of medication used from pain relief   analgesic  
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prolonged, varying in intensity   chronic pain  
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diffuse, radiating, and varying in intesnity from dull to sharp   visceral pain  
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increase in blood glucose level   hyperglycemia  
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breakdown of food products into smaller particles   digestion  
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production of more complex chemical substances through the synthesis of nutrients   anabolism  
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all biochemical and physological processes by which the body maintains itselfe   metabolism  
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organic substances in food that are present in small amounts and act as coenzymes in biochemical reactions   vitamins  
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inorganic elements that act as catalysis in biochemical reactions   minerals  
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substances necessary for body functioning   nutrients  
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breakdown of complex body substances into simpler substances   catabolism  
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decrease in blood glucse level   hypoglycemia  
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measurement of size and makeup of body at specific sites   anthropometry  
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accumulation of urine in the bladder because of inability to empty bladder completely   retention  
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painful or difficult urination   dysuria  
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diffuculty in initating urination   hesitancy  
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volume of urine remaining in the bladder after voiding   residual urine  
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feeling the need to void immediately   urgency  
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voiding large amounts of urine   polyuria  
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urination, particularly excessive, at night   nocturia  
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presnece of blood in the urine   hematuria  
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voiding very often   frequency  
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diminished urinary output in relation to fluid intake   oliguria  
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propulsion of food throught eh gastrointestional tract   peristalsis  
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agent used to empty the bowel   cathartic  
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artificial opening in the abdominal wall   stoma  
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dilated rectal veins   hemorrhoids  
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blood in the stool   melena  
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contraction of abdominal muscles, while forcing expiration against a closed airway   Valsalva maneuver  
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characterized by bone resorption   disuse osteoporosis  
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TEMPORARY DECREASE IN BLODO SUPPLY TO AN ORGAN OR TISSUE   ISCHEMIA  
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capacity to maneuver around freely   mobility  
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permanent plantar flexion   footdrop  
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lung inflammation from stasis or pooling of secretions   hypostatic penumonia  
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increased urine excretion   diuresis  
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collapse of alveoli   atelectasis  
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bathing, dressing, eating   activities of daily living  
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calcium stones in teh kidney   renal calculi  
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accumulation of platelets, fibrin, clotting factors, and cellular elements attached to the interior wall of an artery or vein   thrombus  
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locaized collection of blood under the tissues   hematoma  
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separation of wound layers with protrusion of visceral organs   evisceration  
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wound edges come together   approximate  
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superficial loss of dermis   abrasion  
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pressure excerted against the skin when the patient is moved   shearing force  
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general poor health and malnutrition with weakness and emaciation   cachexia  
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removal of devitalized tissue   debridement  
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torn, jagged damage to dermis and epidermis   laceration  
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separation of skin and tissue layers   dehiscence  
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abnormal passage between two body organs or between an organ and the outside of the body   fistula  
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