Clin app defintions - Final

Question 1

Achalasia

Answer 1

Cant swallow food

Question 2

Adjunctive therapy

Answer 2

The use of more than one type of therapy

Question 3

Agnosia

Answer 3

Loss of ability to recognize familiar objects or stimuli

Question 4

Anisocytosis

Answer 4

RBCs are of unequal size

Question 5

Anorexia

Answer 5

Loss of appetite

Question 6

Aphasia

Answer 6

Difficulty reading writing or speaking

Question 7

Aphthous ulcer

Answer 7

Canker sore

Question 8

Apraxia

Answer 8

Difficulty carrying out purposeful movements, sometimes accompanied by aphasia

Question 9

Bradykinesia

Answer 9

Slow movement

Question 10

Delirium Tremens

Answer 10

The shakes sometimes accompanying alcohol withdrawl

Question 11

Dysmetria

Answer 11

Lack of coordination of movement under overshoot intended motion

Question 12

Dysomnia

Answer 12

Difficulty falling or staying asleep

Question 13

Empiric therapy

Answer 13

Initiation of treatment prior to determination of a firm diagnosis

Question 14

Hordeolum

Answer 14

Stye

Question 15

Intussusception

Answer 15

One bowel slides into the next telescope

Question 16

Micrographia

Answer 16

Progressively smaller handwriting

Question 17

Mononeuropathy

Answer 17

Damage to nerves outside the brain and spinal cord causing isolated nerve damage

Question 18

Myopia

Answer 18

Nearsightedness

Question 19

Neoplasm, nevus

Answer 19

Mole

Question 20

Paresthesias

Answer 20

Tingling

Question 21

Pilonidal cyst

Answer 21

Cyst near natal cleft of the buttocks

Question 22

Poikilocytosis

Answer 22

RBCs vary in shape

Question 23

Poikilothermia

Answer 23

Inability to maintain constant core temperature

Question 24

Recalcitrant

Answer 24

Unresponsive to treatment

Question 25

Rubeola

Answer 25

Measels

Question 26

Sebaceous cyst

Answer 26

Sac under skin containing yellow oily material

Question 27

Signa

Answer 27

Part of the prescription that includes instructions for use

Question 28

Spontaneous abortion

Answer 28

Miscarriage

Question 29

Tinea pedis

Answer 29

Athletes foot

Question 30

TIPS procedure

Answer 30

Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

Question 31

Torticollis

Answer 31

Stiff neck

Question 32

Toxic megacolon

Answer 32

Enlarged colon

Question 33

Transverse myelitis

Answer 33

Neurological disorder caused by inflammation across both sides of one level of the spinal cord

Question 34

TURP procedure

Answer 34

Transurethral resection of the prostate

Question 35

Urticaria

Answer 35

Hives

Question 36

Varicella zoster

Answer 36

Shingles

Question 37

Zenker's diverticulum

Answer 37

Pharyngeoesophageal diverticulum pharyngeal pouch