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WillWallace Perinatology ch 5 vocab

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acrocyanosis   condition in the newborn characterized by a cyanotic discolorization of the hands and feet, aka peripheral acrocyanosis of the newborn  
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alae nasi   external border at opening of nasal passage, cartilaginous, maintains patency of nasal opening during spont breathing  
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anencephaly   genetic defect in which brain and spinal cord are absent, cranium is open, vertebral canal remains a groove  
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caput succedaneum   localized pitting edema found in the scalp of a newborn that may overlie sutures, results from press of cervix on fetal head, not dangerous, last a few days  
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Doppler   change in frequency when a sound is emitted by an object moving toward or away an observer, Doppler scanner-ultrasonic waves reflected from moving (heart) yield info about the structure  
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fontanelle   space on a newborn cranium between cranial bones, covered by tough membrane  
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hydrocephaly   a pathologic condition characterized by abnormal accumulation of cerebral fluid with in the cranial vault-results in dilated ventricals  
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hyperpnea   deep, labored or rapid respiration  
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hypopnea   shallow or slow respiration  
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lanugo   fine, downy hair that covers fetal body, appears at 26 weeks, thins at 28, starts to disappear at 32, gone by 40  
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methacholine   cholinergic, aerosolized and used to confirm asthma  
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murmur   low pitched fluttering or humming heard just before, during or after the normal heart sounds  
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paradoxical   situation or occurrence in which the outcome is the opposite of what is expected  
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pinna   cartilage portion of the external ear  
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pleural iffusion   abnormal fluid in the pleural space, transudate-protein free (from tissue), exudate-high protein ( from blood vascular)  
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pneumotachograph   instrument that measures velocity of expired velocity of gas flows  
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rugae   ridges or folds of skin, found in stomach and mature male scrotum  
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scaphoid   sunken anterior abdominal wall  
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thoracic gas volume   volume of gas in the thorax as measured by the body plethysmograph, may or may not include conductive airway gas  
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vernix   off white cheese-like substance that covers the skin of the fetus and newborn, composed of sebaceous gland secretions, lanugo and epithelial cells, thermoregulation and passage through canal  
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