Chapter 35

Question 1

Anthropometry

Answer 1

The science os size, proportion, weight, and height

Question 2

Vital Signs

Answer 2

Indicators of the body’s ability to maintain homestasis, Temperature (T) , pulse(P), respiration(R), and blood pressure (BP)

Question 3

Pyrexia

Answer 3

A bodys temperaturen above 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit

Question 4

Febrile

Answer 4

Condition caused by fever.

Question 5

Afebrile

Answer 5

A condition not caused by fever

Question 6

Hyperpyrexia

Answer 6

A very high fever

Question 7

Hyperthermia

Answer 7

A high body temperature is caused by being exposed to high external temperatures , such as from being outdoors on a very hot day

Question 8

Hypothermia

Answer 8

A body temperature below 97 degrees farenheit. The body is losing more heat that its producing. Occurs in cases of environmental exposure to cool or cold temperatures.

Question 9

Fernulum linguae

Answer 9

Under the tongue, the longitudinal fold or mucous membrane. Tongue web.

Question 10

Tympanic membrane thermometer

Answer 10

Aural thermometer, used for the ear temperature

Question 11

Tachycardia

Answer 11

A rapid pulse rate, above 100bmp.

Question 12

Bardycardia

Answer 12

A slow pulse rate, below 60bpm

Question 13

Rate

Answer 13

The number pf pulse beats per minute

Question 14

Volume

Answer 14

The strength of the pulse when the heart contracts.

Question 15

Bounding Pulse

Answer 15

An increase in blood volume, a strong or normal amount of force or blood volume

Question 16

Thready Pulse

Answer 16

Weak pulse, a barley perceptible force or blood volume

Question 17

Rhythm

Answer 17

The regularity or equal spacing of all the beats of the pulse.

Question 18

Dysrhythmia

Answer 18

A pulse with an irregular rhythm. Set of random irregular beats or a predictable pattern of irregular beats.

Question 19

Intermittent pulse

Answer 19

Occurs when the heart occasionally skips a beat, not considered abnormal if it does not happen frequently.

Question 20

Apical

Answer 20

A pulse rate is counted at the apex of the heart (the lowest portion of the heart) with the use of a stethoscope that is placed over the apex

Question 21

Pulse deficit

Answer 21

Occurs when there are fewer pulses that there are heartbeats. Radical measurement is subtracted from the apical measurement

Question 22

Respiratory cycle

Answer 22

One respiration consists of one expiration (exhalation), and one inspiration (inhalation)

Question 23

Bradypnea

Answer 23

Abnormally slow breathing. Adult respiratory rate below 12.

Question 24

Tachypnea

Answer 24

Abnormally rapid breathing. Adult respiratory rate above 40.

Question 25

Apnea

Answer 25

The absence of breathing for a period lasting longer than 19 seconds.

Question 26

Eupnea

Answer 26

Normal breathing.

Question 27

Hyperventilation

Answer 27

Deep rapid respirations

Question 28

Hypoventilation

Answer 28

Shallow slow respirations

Question 29

Cyanosis

Answer 29

Bluish color caused by an increase of carbon dioxide and a decrease of oxygen in the blood

Question 30

Hypertension (HTN)

Answer 30

High blood pressure

Question 31

Asymptomatic

Answer 31

Without any symptoms

Question 32

Hypotension

Answer 32

Low blood pressure

Question 33

Synscope

Answer 33

Fainting

Question 34

Systolic blood pressure

Answer 34

The highest pressure that as the left ventricle of the heart is contracting

Question 35

Diastostic blood pressure

Answer 35

The lowest pressure level that occurs when the heart is relaxed (the ventricle is at rest)

Question 36

Pulse pressure

Answer 36

The difference between systolic and diastolic reading

Question 37

Korotkoff sounds

Answer 37

The sounds heard as the arterial wall distends under the compression of the blood pressure cuff.

Question 38

Orthostatic hypotension

Answer 38

A lowered blood pressure, od a drop in blood pressure, that occurs when a patient changes positions from lying down to standing up

Question 39

Shygmomanometer

Answer 39

Instrument used for measuring the pressure the blood exerts against the walls of the artery

Question 40

Monometer

Answer 40

A scale that registers the actual pressure reading

Question 41

Palpatory method

Answer 41

Feeling the radical pulse while the blood pressure cuff is deflating can be used to determine systolic pressure