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Nursing 315

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Eupnea   normal, quiet breathing at a rate of 12 to 20 breaths per minute in adults  
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Apnea   an absence of spontaneous respiration  
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Bradypnea   an abnormally low rate of breathing (less than 12 breaths per minute)  
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Tachypnea   an abnormally rapid rate of breathing (more than 20 breaths per minute)  
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Bradycardia   a condition in which the heart rate is less than 60 bpm  
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Tachycardia   a condition in which the heart contracts at a rate greater than 100 bpm  
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Obesity   an abnormal increase in the proportion of fat cells, mainly in the viscera and subcutaneous tissues of the body. Obesity may be exogenous or endogenous. BMI = 30kg/m  
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Korotkoff's sounds   The sphygmomanometer is inflated enough to collapse an artery. As air is released from the cuff, pressure on the artery is reduced and the blood is heard pulsing through the collapsed vessel.  
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Hypotension   an abnormal condition in which the blood pressure is not adequate for normal perfusion and oxygenation of the tissues. An expanded intravascular space, hypovolemia, or diminished cardiac output may be the cause.  
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Hypertension   a common disorder that is a known cardiovascular disease risk factor, characterized by elevated blood pressure over the normal values of 120/80 mm Hg in an adult over 18 years of age.  
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Orthostatic hypotension   abnormally low blood pressure that occurs when an individual suddenly assumes the standing posture. It can produce dizziness and fainting.  
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Pulse pressure   the difference between systolic and diastolic blood pressures, normally 30 to 50 mm Hg.  
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Auscultatory gap   time in which sound is not heard in the auscultatory method of measuring blood pressure with a sphygmomanometer, occurring particularly in hypertension and in some aortic stenosis.  
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Afebrile   without fever.  
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Systole   the contraction of the heart, driving blood into the aorta and pulmonary arteries.  
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Diastole   the period between contractions of the atria or ventricles during which blood enters the relaxed chambers from the systemic circulation and the lungs.  
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Neuropathic pain   pain that results from the direct stimulation of the myelin or nervous tissue of the peripheral or central nervous system.  
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Referred pain   pain felt at a site different than that of an injured or diseased organ or body part.  
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Somatic pain   generally well-localized pain that results from the activation of peripheral nociceptors without injury to the peripheral nerve or CNS.  
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Visceral pain   pain that results from the activation of nociceptors of the thoracic, pelvic, or abdominal viscera. It is felt as poorly localized aching or cramping sensation and is often referred to cutaneous sites.  
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Health promotion   public efforts to reduce the incidence of disease and its impact on people, communities, and populations  
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ADLs   tasks performed by individuals in a typical day that allow for independent living  
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Gordon's functional health patterns   a method developed by Marjory Gordon in 1987 used by nurses in the nursing process to provide a more comprehensive nursing assessment of the patient  
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Objective data   what you as the health professional observe by inspecting, palpating, percussing, and auscultating during the physical exam  
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Subjective data   what the person says about himself during history taking  
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Sign   objective abnormality that you as the examiner detect on physical examination, or in lab reports  
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Symptom   subjective sensation that the person feels from the disorder  
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Data base   includes patient's records and lab studies used to make clinical judgementor diagnosis about an individual's health state or response to health problems and life processes  
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Holistic health   views the mind, body, and spirit as interdependent and functioning as a whole within the environment  
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Data base   includes patient's records and lab studies used to make clinical judgementor diagnosis about an individual's health state or response to health problems and life processes  
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Holistic health   views the mind, body, and spirit as interdependent and functioning as a whole within the environment  
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Affect   temporary expression of feelings or state of mind  
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Mood   more durable, prolonged display of feelings that color the whole emotional life  
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Consciousness   being aware of one's existence, feelings, and thoughts, and awareness of the environment.  
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Orientation   awareness of the objective world in relation to self - person, place, time.  
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Perception   awareness of objects through the five senses.  
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Resonance   the sound elicited on percussion of the chest - medium/loud amplitude, low pitch, clear, hollow quality, moderate duration.  
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Tympany   a resonant sound heard in percussion (as of the abdomen) - loud amplitude, high pitch, musical and drumlike quality, sustained and longest duration.  
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Dullness   lacking in force, intensity, or acuteness - soft amplitude, high pitch, muffled quality, short duration, ex. dense organ like the spleen  
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Flatness   very soft amplitude, high pitch, a dead stop of sound, very short duration, ex. when no air is present over a muscle, bone, or tumor  
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Alert   awake or easily aroused, oriented, fully aware of external and internal stimuli and responds appropriately, conducts meaningful and interpersonal interactions.  
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Stupor   (semi-coma) spontaneously unconcious, responds only to persistent and vigorous shaking or pain, has appropriate motor responses, otherwise can only groan, mumble, move restlessly, reflex activity persists.  
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Lethargic   not fully alert, drifts off to sleep when not stimulated, can be aroused by name when called in normal voice but looks drowsy, responds appropriately to questions or commands but thinking seems slow and fuzzy, inattentive, loses train of thought  
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Coma   completely unconcious, no response to pain or to any external or internal stimuli, light coma has some reflex activity but no purposeful movement, deep coma has no motor response  
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Delirium   disturbance of conciousness with reduced ability to focus, sustain, or shift attention, a change in cognition or the development of a perceptual disturbance, the disturbance develops over a short period of time and tends to fluctuate  
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Lateral recumbent position   the posture assumed by the patient lying on the left side with the right thigh and knee drawn up AKA the Sim's position  
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Prone position   laying on stomach  
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Supine position   laying on back  
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Dorsal recumbent position   the supine position with the person lying on the back, head and shoulders  
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Lithotomoy position   supine with feet in stirrups, knees bent  
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Knee-chest position   On hands and knees on bed with head down towards pillow.  
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Normocephalic   a person whose head and all major organs of the head are in a normal condition and without significant abnormalities.  
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Lymphadenopathy   term meaning "disease of the lymph nodes." It is, however, almost synonymously used with "swollen/enlarged lymph nodes".  
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Accommodation   the process by which the eye increases optical power to maintain a clear image (focus) on an object as it draws near the eye.  
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Fixation   maintaining the gaze in a constant direction  
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Presbyopia   the condition where the eye exhibits a progressively diminished ability to focus on near objects with age.  
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Snellen eye chart   an eye chart used by eye care professionals and others to measure visual acuity.  
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Pupillary light reflex   dilation and contraction of pupil according to level of light.  
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Nystagmus   a type of eye movement characterized by alternating smooth pursuit in one direction and saccadic movement in the other direction.  
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Cerumen   yellowish, waxy substance secreted in the ear canal of humans and many other mammals. It plays an important role in the human ear canal, assisting in cleaning and lubrication, and also provides some protection from bacteria, fungi, and insects.  
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Presbycusis   age-related hearing loss, is the cumulative effect of aging on hearing. Also known as presbyacusis, it is defined as a progressive bilateral symmetrical age-related sensorineural hearing loss. The hearing loss is most marked at higher frequencies.  
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Whispered voice test   requires the examiner to stand an arms length behind the patient while whispering a combination of letters and numbers for the patient to then repeat.  
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Vertigo   is a specific type of dizziness, a major symptom of a balance disorder. It is the sensation of spinning or swaying while the body is stationary with respect to the earth or surroundings.There are two types of vertigo  
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Malocclusion   a misalignment of teeth and/or incorrect relation between the teeth of the two dental arches. The upper arch is called the maxilla and the lower is called the mandible.  
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Rhinitis   the medical term describing irritation and inflammation of some internal areas of the nose. The primary symptom is a runny nose.  
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Halitosis   breath odor, foul breath, fetor oris, fetor ex ore, or most commonly bad breath are terms used to describe noticeably unpleasant odors exhaled in breathing – whether the smell is from an oral source or not.  
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Leukoplakia   adherent white plaques or patches on the mucous membranes of the oral cavity, including the tongue.  
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Bronchial breath sounds   a normal sound heard over the main airways of the lungs, especially the trachea. Expiration and inspiration produce noise of equal loudness and duration, sounding like blowing through a hollow tube.  
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Bronchovesicular breath sounds   sounds heard between the vesicular murmur and the bronchial tones.  
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Vesicular breath sounds   very faint murmur.  
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Tactile fremitus   vocal fremitus felt on the chest wall  
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Hypoxemia   deficient oxygenation of the blood  
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Apnea   cessation of breathing  
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Tachypnea   very rapid respiration  
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Bradypnea   Abnormal slowness of respiration  
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Eupnea   normal respiration  
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Orthopnea   Discomfort in breathing that is relieved by sitting or standing in an erect position  
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Adventitious sounds   the rale, rhonchus, grunt, friction rub, laryngeal stertor, wheeze and peristaltic sounds.  
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Costovertebal angle   the acute angle formed on either side between the twelfth rib and the vertebral column.  
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Pleural effusion   occurs when too much fluid collects in the pleural space (the space between the two layers of the pleura). It is commonly known as "water on the lungs." It is characterized by shortness of breath, chest pain, gastric discomfort (dyspepsia), and cough.  
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Atelectasis   collapse of lung tissue affecting part or all of one lung. This condition prevents normal oxygen absoption to healthy tissues.  
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Lobar pneumonia   acute bacterial pneumonia with edema, usually in one lung.  
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Emphysema   a chronic respiratory disease where there is over-inflation of the air sacs (alveoli) in the lungs, causing a decrease in lung function, and often, breathlessness.  
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Pneumothorax   collection of air or gas in the chest or pleural space that causes part or all of a lung to collapse.  
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Pulmonary embolism   an obstruction of a blood vessel in the lungs, usually due to a blood clot, which blocks a coronary artery.  
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Bronchophony   an increase in the intensity and clarity of vocal resonance that may result from an increase in lung tissue density, such as in the consolidation of pneumonia. it is assessed by having the patient repeat a phrase such as 99 during auscultation.  
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Egophony   A peculiar broken quality of the voice sounds, like the bleating of a goat, heard over lung tissue in cases of pleurisy with effusion.  
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Whispered pectoriloquy   Transmission of the voice sound through the pulmonary structures so that it is unusually audible on auscultation of the chest, indicating either consolidation of the lung parenchyma or the presence of a large cavity.  
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Apex of the heart   the blunt extremity of the heart formed by the left ventricle, the lowest superficial part of the heart, formed by the inferolateral part of the left ventricle.  
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Base of the heart   the portion of the heart opposite the apex. It is superior and medially located.  
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Diastole   The normal rhythmically occurring relaxation and dilatation of the heart chambers, especially the ventricles, during which they fill with blood.  
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Systole   the contraction, or period of contraction, of the heart, especially of the ventricles.  
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Edema   condition of abnormally large fluid volume in the circulatory system or in tissues between the body's cells (interstitial spaces).  
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Palpitation   Perceptible forcible pulsation of the heart, usually with an increase in frequency or force, with or without irregularity in rhythm.  
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Syncope   a faint; temporary loss of consciousness due to generalized cerebral ischemia.  
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Precordium   the region of the anterior surface of the body covering the heart and lower thorax.  
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Thrill   The vibration accompanying a cardiac or vascular murmur, detectible on palpation.  
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Apical impulse   any motion of the anterior wall of the thorax localized in the area over the heart.  
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Arrrythmia   variation from the normal rhythm of the heartbeat, encompassing abnormalities of rate, regularity, site of impulse origin, and sequence of activation.  
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Cyanosis   a physical sign causing bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes. Cyanosis is caused by a lack of oxygen in the blood.  
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Bruit   an abnormal blowing or swishing sound or murmur heard while auscultating a carotid artery, the aorta, an organ, or a gland, such as the liver or thyroid, and resulting from blood flowing through a narrow or partially occluded artery.  
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Varicose vein   a dilated, tortuous vein, usually in the subcutaneous tissues of the leg; incompetency of the venous valve is associated.  
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