Peds - Growth & Dev. Word Scramble
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Growth & Nutrition Terms - Ped | Growth & Def. Definitions |
Chromosomes | 23 |
Cephalocaudal | Development proceeds from head to toe |
Maslow's Hierarchy | Physiological must be met first |
Personality | "Unique organization of characteristics that determine the individual & typical or recurrent pattern of behavior |
Cognition | "To know" - refers to intellectual ability |
Piaget's Theory | Stages of development, all of which are interrelated: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations, and formal operations. Each stage builds on the preceding stage. |
WIC | Women, infant, children up to 6 months. |
Deciduous | Baby teeth |
DRG's | Diagnosis related groupings. Medicare system that determines payment for a hospital stay based on the patient's diagnosis. |
Mitosis | Type of cell diviision. |
Meiosis | Cell division of sex cells division only. |
Mutation | Defect in DNA - something did not divide or mutiply right. |
Teratogen | Substance that causes mutations. |
Autosomes | 22 pair of chromosones without sex chromosone |
Recessive | Not the dominant gene. Ex. is light color hair. |
Homozygous | 2 members of a pair of genes carry the same genetic instruction. |
Heterozygous | When 2 genes in a pair carry different instructions and 1 member is dominant. |
Karotypes | Chromosonal makeup of a normal body cell |
Tetology | Science of treating the fetus in utero |
Proximodistal | Midline to periphery. Development from center of body to the periphery. |
General to specific | Infant's grasp with hand before pinching with fingers. |
Linear growth | Skeletal growth |
Children's Bureau Research in 1930's | Resulted in hot lunch programs at school "Free lunch program" |
Pure Food & Drug Act | Controls meds, poison and purity of foods. |
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