Definitions Exam 2

Question 1

Agnosia

Answer 1

The inability to recognize or identify objects or people.

Question 2

Angina

Answer 2

A severe constricting pain in the chest.

Question 3

Anhedonia

Answer 3

Absence of pleasure from acts that otherwise would be pleasurable.

Question 4

Anticoagulant

Answer 4

Blood thinner.

Question 5

Apraxia

Answer 5

Impaired abilities to perform motor activities despite intact function.

Question 6

Arrhythmia

Answer 6

Loss of rhythm; denoting especially an irregularity of the heart-beat.

Question 7

Arteriostenosis

Answer 7

Narrowing of the arteries.

Question 8

Arteriosclerosis

Answer 8

Hardening and thickening of the arteries.

Question 9

Asystole

Answer 9

The absence of contractions of the heart.

Question 10

Benign

Answer 10

Not harmful, not cancer.

Question 11

Bilateral

Answer 11

On both sides.

Question 12

Blood pressure

Answer 12

The force of the blood as it pushed against the vessel walls.

Question 13

Bruit

Answer 13

A blowing, murmur-like sound of vascular.

Question 14

Cardiac output

Answer 14

Volume of blood pumped out of a ventricle in one minute (Stroke Volume x Heart Rate).

Question 15

Cerebral hemorrhage

Answer 15

Stroke, blood clot in the brain.

Question 16

Chronotropic

Answer 16

Affecting the rate of rhythmic movements such as the heart beat.

Question 17

Coronary

Answer 17

The blood vessels that bring blood to the heart.

Question 18

Crohn’s disease

Answer 18

A chronic transmural inflammatory process involving any GI tract.

Question 19

Deep vein thrombosis

Answer 19

A blood clot deep in the vein.

Question 20

Delirium

Answer 20

Alteration in consciousness and change in cognition over a short period of time.

Question 21

Delusions

Answer 21

Fixed, false belief.

Question 22

Dementia

Answer 22

A decline on social/occupational functioning and cognitive deficits including memory impairment.

Question 23

Dysgeusia

Answer 23

Abnormal sense of taste.

Question 24

Enuresis

Answer 24

Bedwetting.

Question 25

Epilepsy

Answer 25

Two or more unprovoked seizures without an identifiable cause.

Question 26

Epistaxis

Answer 26

Nose bleeding.

Question 27

Generalized anxiety disorder

Answer 27

Excessive and uncontrolled worry.

Question 28

Halitosis

Answer 28

Bad breath.

Question 29

Hyperhidrosis

Answer 29

Excessive sweat

Question 30

Inotropic

Answer 30

Influencing the contractility of muscular tissue

Question 31

Ischemia

Answer 31

Lack of blood to a part of the body, usually due to blockage of a blood vessel.

Question 32

Insidious

Answer 32

Denoting a disease that progresses with few or no symptoms to indicate its gravity.

Question 33

Murmur

Answer 33

Soft, swishing sound heard on the chest wall with cardiac or vascular source.

Question 34

Myocardial infarction

Answer 34

Myocardial cell death and necrosis.

Question 35

Parkinson's disease

Answer 35

A chronic, progressive disease related progressive dopamine loss.

Question 36

Peptic ulcer disease

Answer 36

Ulceration of upper GI tract.

Question 37

Photosensitivity

Answer 37

Sensitivity or responsiveness to light.

Question 38

Polyphagia

Answer 38

Eating in excess.

Question 39

Polyuria

Answer 39

Excessive passage of urine, as in diabetes.

Question 40

Postcoital

Answer 40

After intercourse.

Question 41

Post-traumatic stress disorder

Answer 41

Response to a catastrophic life event.

Question 42

Post-operative (post-op)

Answer 42

After surgery.

Question 43

Priapism

Answer 43

Persistent , usually painful erection of the penis, especially as a consequence of disease and not related to sexual arousal.

Question 44

Proteinuria

Answer 44

Protein in the urine.

Question 45

Pyelonephritis

Answer 45

Inflammation of kidneys due to infection.

Question 46

Pyuria

Answer 46

Pus in urine.

Question 47

Rhabdomyolysis

Answer 47

Break down of striated muscle fibers with excretion of myoglobin in the urine.

Question 48

Serum creatinine

Answer 48

Normal product of the breakdown of skeletal muscle, used to measure kidney function.

Question 49

Seizure

Answer 49

A focal and/or generalized disturbance of neuronal electrical activity.

Question 50

Stroke volume

Answer 50

Amount of blood ejected in one heart beat.

Question 51

Transient ischemic attacks

Answer 51

Mini-strokes.

Question 52

Tension headache

Answer 52

The most common type of headache complaint.

Question 53

Uremia

Answer 53

Toxic urine substances accumulated in the blood.

Question 54

Urinalysis

Answer 54

Examination of urine with a dipstick.