Domain I - Resident Care and Quality of Life (Common Medical Terms)

Question 1

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Activities of Daily Living

Answer 1

The five basic everyday activities residents engage in: eating, dressing, walking, toileting and communicating.

Question 2

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Acute

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Intense, usually a painful and/or serious condition, often fatal, as an acute illness.

Question 3

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Ambulatory

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Able to walk about, not bedridden.

Question 4

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Amputation

Answer 4

Surgical removal of a limb, part, or organ.

Question 5

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Aseptic

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Free from disease producing organisms. Also, referred to as asepsis.

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Atrophy

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The wasting away of an organ or tissue as brain cells in Alzheimer’s.

Question 7

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Autopsy

Answer 7

Examination of organs, tissues, and cells of a dead person.

Question 8

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Bedridden

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Confined to bed, unable or not allowed to sit, stand or walk.

Question 9

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Benign

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Not recurrent or progressive, nonmalignant, good prognosis.

Question 10

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Blood Pressure

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The pressure of the blood on the walls of the blood vessels, measured as systolic and diastolic and recorded as 130/80.

Question 11

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Bypass

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Surgically installing an alternate route for blood to bypass an obstruction in a main or vital artery.

Question 12

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Chemotherapy

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Treatment of a disease with chemical compounds, as thiazides and coumarins.

Question 13

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Chronic

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Prolonged, of long duration and/or recurring, as a chronic disease.

Question 14

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Colostomy

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Opening of a portion of the colon onto the abdominal surface to divert the flow of feces from the colon and anus.

Question 15

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Coma

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A state of profound insensibility caused by disease, injury, or poison; totally unconscious.

Question 16

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Comatose

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Relating to or like a coma; in a coma; lethargic.

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Communicable

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Capable of spreading from one person to another, as a communicable disease.

Question 18

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Congenital

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Existing at, or dating from birth, not inherited, as a congenital deformity.

Question 19

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Contagious

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Communicable by contact, spreading from one person to another, as a disease; or charged with disease germs, as contagious material.

Question 20

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Contusion

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A bruise in which the skin is not broken.

Question 21

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Convalesce

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To gather strength after sickness; to recover health gradually.

Question 22

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Cytotoxic

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Destruction of white cells as in patients treated with radiation, chemotherapy, and immunosuppressants.

Question 23

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Decubitus Ulcer

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See pressure sore.

Question 24

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Degenerative

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Deterioration of a tissue or an organ in which vitality is diminished.

Question 25

# Common Medical Terms Dehydrated

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When body tissues lose too much water.

Question 26

# Common Medical Terms Delirium

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A state of mental confusion characterized by disorientation of a time and place.

Question 27

# Common Medical Terms Delusional

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A false belief or misconception regarding the self, as delusions of persecution or being poisoned.

Question 28

# Common Medical Terms Diagnosis

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Determined by examination using both clinical and laboratory methods; also, the decision reached, as pneumonia, carcinoma, etc.

Question 29

# Common Medical Terms Dialysis

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Removing impurities from the blood by machine when kidneys fail to function.

Question 30

# Common Medical Terms Edema

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Condition in which body tissues retain an excessive amount of fluids.

Question 31

# Common Medical Terms Equilibrium

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State of balance, contending forces are equal.

Question 32

# Common Medical Terms Etiology

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Cause of a disease.

Question 33

# Common Medical Terms Gangrene

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Necrosis or death of tissue, usually due to deficiency in blood supply.

Question 34

# Common Medical Terms Geriatrics

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A medical specialty concerned with care and treatment of the aged.

Question 35

# Common Medical Terms Germicide

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A disinfectant which destroys disease germs; used to control the spread of diesease

Question 36

# Common Medical Terms Hallucination

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Having a sensory experience - feeling, hearing, smelling, seeing or perceiving - when there is no basis in reality nor any exterior stimuli, as hearing voices when no one speaks.

Question 37

# Common Medical Terms Hematoma

Answer 37

A swelling that contains blood; blood under the skin or in tissues.