Nursing Terms (MICU) Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Abdomen is large and extends outward | Protuberant |
Abdomen is hard and board like | Hard, rigid, distended, tympanic or taut |
Abdomen is soft and flabby | Relaxed or flaccid |
Abdomen appears swollen and rounded | Distended or edematous |
Abdomen is filled with gas | Tympanites, tympanic or flatulent |
Abdomen hangs down over pubes | Pendulous |
Anorexia | Loss of appetite |
Parorexia | Craving for certian foods |
From shoulder to elbow | Upper arm huerus |
From elbow to wrist | Lower arm ulna and radius |
Upper back | Inter-scapular region and shoulder area |
Small of back | lumbar region |
End of spine | sacral region, coccyx or coccygeal area |
Buttocks | gluteal area |
Eructation | Belching |
Epistaxes | Nosebleed |
Hematuria | Blood in urine |
Hemoptysis | Spitting of blood |
Vesicle | Blister |
Inverted nipple | Depressed nipple |
Halitosis | Unpleasant breath |
Fetid | Foul breath |
Dyspnea | Difficult breathing |
Apnea | Short periods when breathing has stopped |
Orthopnea | Inaility to breath while laying down |
Eupnea | Normal breathing |
Hyperpnea | Rapid breathing |
Cheyne-Stokes | Increasing dyspnea with periods of apnea |
Stertorous | laborious and noisy breathing |
Semi-conscious | only partly conscious |
Stuporous | Unconscious but can be aroused |
Comatose | Unconscious and cannot be aroused |
Tonic tremor, palsy | Continous shaking |
Clonic tremor | Shaking with intervals of rest |
Aura | Subjective sensation |
Expectorate | Expulsion of mucus or phlegm from throat or lungs. |
Coryza | Watery drainage from nose |
Purulent | Containing pus |
Sanguineous | Bloody |
Serous | Consists of lymphatic fluid |
Tenacios | Tough or sticky |
Lochia | From vagina (after labor) |
Sero-Sanguineous | Bloody & Lymphtic |
Cerumen | Wax in ears |
Emetic | Agent given to produce emesis |
Jaundice | Yellow in color |
Ptosis of lids | Drooping eyelids |
Photophobia | Unusually sensative to light |
Diplopia | Double vision |
Strabismus | Cross eye or squinting |
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