Vital signs

Question 1

Apical Pulse

Answer 1

Pulse measured by using a stethoscope, listening to the patient’s heatbeats

Question 2

Apical-Radial Pulse

Answer 2

Pulse measured by feeling patient’s radial artery

Question 3

Auscultatory gap

Answer 3

time in which sound is not heard in the auscultatory method of measuring blood pressure with a sphygmomanometer, occurring particularly in hypertension and in aortic stenosis.

Question 4

Bigeminal pulse

Answer 4

one in which two beats occur in rapid succession, the groups of two being separated by a longer interval, usually related to regularly occurring ventricular premature beats. Called also pulsus bigeminus.

Question 5

Bounding pulse

Answer 5

a pulse that feels full and springlike on palpation as a result of an increased thrust of cardiac contraction or an increased volume of circulating blood within the elastic structures of the vascular system.

Question 6

Bradycardia

Answer 6

slowness of the heartbeat, so that the pulse rate is less than 60 per minute.

Question 7

Bruit

Answer 7

a sound or murmur heard in auscultation, especially an abnormal one.

Question 8

Diastolic

Answer 8

pertaining to diastole, or the blood pressure at the instant of maximum cardiac relaxation.

Question 9

Essential hypertension

Answer 9

Hypertension without known cause or preexisting renal disease.

Question 10

Korotkoff sounds

Answer 10

characteristic noise heard over an artery when pressure over it is reduced below systolic arterial pressure, as when blood pressure is determined by the auscultatory method.

Question 11

Orthostatic hypotension

Answer 11

an abnormal decrease in blood pressure when a person stands up. This may lead to fainting.

Question 12

Point of maximum intensity

Answer 12

the point on the chest wall at which the maximal cardiac impulse is seen and/or palpated.

Question 13

Pulse pressure

Answer 13

The difference between the systolic and diastolic pressures. If the systolic pressure is 120 mm Hg and the diastolic pressure is 80 mm Hg, the pulse pressure is 40 mm Hg; the normal pulse pressure is between 30 and 40 mm Hg.

Question 14

Pulsus alternas

Answer 14

a physical finding with arterial pulse waveform showing alternating strong and weak beats. It is almost always indicative of left ventricular systolic impairment, and carries a poor prognosis.

Question 15

Pyrexia

Answer 15

Raise of body temp

Question 16

Tachycardia

Answer 16

Fast hearbeats