Abb

Question 1

ABRASION

Answer 1

A partial- thickness wound caused by the scraping away or rubbing of the skin.

Question 2

ABUSE

Answer 2

The willful infliction or injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment that results in physical harm, pain, or mental anguish, depriving the person (or the person’s caregiver) if the goods or services needed to attain or maintain well-being.

Question 3

ACTIVITY OF DAYLY LIVING

Answer 3

The activities necessary for the client to fulfill basic human needs (toileting, eating, dressing, hygiene)

Question 4

ANURIA

Answer 4

No urinary output.

Question 5

APHASIA

Answer 5

Impaired or lost ability to communicate through speech due to dysfunction of brain centers. The total or partial loss of the ability to use or understand language, a language disorder resulting from damage to parts of the brain responsible for language.

Question 6

ATROPHY

Answer 6

Shrink. The decrease in size of the wasting away of tissue.

Question 7

ARTERY

Answer 7

A blood Vessel that carries blood away from the heart.

Question 8

ASPIRATION

Answer 8

Breathing fluid, food, vomitus, or an object into the lungs.

Question 9

BATTERY

Answer 9

Touching person’s body without his or her consent.

Question 10

CHEYNE-STOKES RESPIRATION

Answer 10

Respiration’s gradually increase I rate and depth and then become shallow and slow, breathing may stop for 10-20 seconds.

Question 11

CONSTRICT

Answer 11

To narrow

Question 12

CYANOSIS

Answer 12

Bluish color.

Question 13

DEMENTIA

Answer 13

The loss of cognitive function that interferes weigh routine personal, social, and occupational activities.

Question 14

DIASTOLIC

Answer 14

Measurement of blood pressure when the heart is relaxing.

Question 15

DILATE

Answer 15

To expand or open wider

Question 16

DISABILITY

Answer 16

Any lost, absent, or impaired physical or mental function.

Question 17

DYSPNEA

Answer 17

Difficult or labored respiration.

Question 18

EDEMA

Answer 18

The swelling of legs and or arms or other body parts when water is being retained unnaturally.

Question 19

EMBOLUS

Answer 19

A blood clot that travels through the vascular system until it lodges in a blood vessel.

Question 20

EMESIS

Answer 20

Vomitus.

Question 21

EXTENSION

Answer 21

Straightening a body part.

Question 22

FRAUD

Answer 22

Saying or doing something to trick, fool or deceive a person.

Question 23

HYPOXEMIA

Answer 23

A reduced amount of oxygen in the blood.

Question 24

INVASION OF PRIVACY

Answer 24

Violating a person’s right not to have his or her name, photo, or private affair exposed or made public without giving consent

Question 25

LATERAL

Answer 25

Away from the mid-line, at the side of the body or body part.

Question 26

LETHARGY

Answer 26

A state of unnatural tiredness, feelings of exhaustion and sleepiness.

Question 27

MEDIAL

Answer 27

At or near the middle or mid-line of the body or body part.

Question 28

NEGLIGENCE

Answer 28

An intentional wrong in which a person did not act in a reasonable and careful manner and person or person’s property was harmed.

Question 29

PATHOGEN

Answer 29

A microbe that is harmful and can cause an infection.

Question 30

POSTERIOR

Answer 30

At or toward the back of the body or body part.

Question 31

PROCIMAL

Answer 31

The part nearest to the center or to the point of origin.

Question 32

REFLEX

Answer 32

An involuntary movement.

Question 33

SITZ BATH

Answer 33

Bath providing moist heat to the genitals or anal area.

Question 34

SPUTUM

Answer 34

Mucus from the reparatory system that is expectorated through the mouth.

Question 35

SPHYGMOMANOMETER

Answer 35

The instrument used to measure blood pressure.

Question 36

STRESS

Answer 36

The response or change in the body caused by any emotional, physical, social, or economic factor.

Question 37

THROMBUS

Answer 37

Blood clot that forms inside artery.

Question 38

TRANSFER

Answer 38

Moving a person from one room or nursing unit to another.

Question 39

TACHYCARDIA

Answer 39

A rapid heartbeat.

Question 40

TACHYPNEA

Answer 40

Rapid breathing, respirations are more than 20 per minute.

Question 41

UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS

Answer 41

A system of infectious disease control which assumes that every direct contact with body fluids is infectious and require every health care worker exposed to direct contact with body fluids or body substance to be protected.

Question 42

VEHICLE

Answer 42

Any substance that transmits microbes.

Question 43

VEIN

Answer 43

A blood vessel that returns blood to the heart