Exam Ch 4-5 Flashcards
(105 cards)
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What are the vital signs?
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Temperature (T), Pulse (P), Respiration (R), Blood Pressure (BP), Pain
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What does HTN stand for?
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Hypertension
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What is heat therapy?
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Thermotherapy
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What is cold therapy?
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Cryotherapy
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What kind of organism is mold?
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Fungi
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What does the abbreviation ”WBC” stand for?
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White Blood Cell
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What is a sign?
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An objective observation made by the provider.
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What is a symptom?
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It is subjective information provided by the patient on what they are feeling.
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What is an example of a sign?
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A rash
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What is a symptom?
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Itching
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What are the four tissue types?
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Connective, Epithelial, Muscular, Nervous
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What is the combining form for eyelid?
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Blephar/o
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What are the combining forms for tears (as in crying)?
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Lamin/o, dacry/o
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What is the combining form for umbilicus (navel)?
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Umbilic/o, omphal/o
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What does the abbreviation “RBC” stand for?
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Red blood cells
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What does diagnosis mean?
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The identification of a disease or condition by a scientific evaluation of physical signs, symptoms, history, tests, and procedures.
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What does prognosis mean?
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The projected outcome of a disease.
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What type of cells do we have as an organism?
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Somatic cells
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What does coagulation mean?
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Blood clotting
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What forms the clot?
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Fibrin
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What does an anticoagulant do?
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A substance that delays or prevents blood from clotting.
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What does hidro- mean?
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Sweating
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What does hyperhidrosis mean?
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Excessive sweating
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What is anemia?
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A condition in which the number of red blood cells or the concentration of hemoglobin (or both) is decreased.
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What are phagocytes?
Cells that can ingest and destroy particulate substances such as bacteria, protozoa, cells, and cell debris.
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What does phag/o mean?
eat
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What does -cyte mean?
cell
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What does leuk/o mean?
white
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What does -penia mean?
deficiency
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what does an- mean?
without
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what does -emia mean?
blood
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What does thromb/o mean?
Blood clot
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What does -osis mean?
Condition
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What is another name for thrombocytes?
Platelets
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What does leukopenia mean?
A deficiency of white blood cells.
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What does acute mean?
Sudden, severe onset.
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What does chronic mean?
Exists over a long time.
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What is the pulse?
The rhythmic expansion of the artery that occurs as the heart beats. It may be felt with the finger or measured electronically.
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What is the respiration rate?
The number of breaths per minute.
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Do ___ change your answer?
Not
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Do not _____ yourself.
Doubt
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Read the question ___ times.
Two
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Take your ____.
Time
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What is blood pressure?
The PRESSURE exerted by the circulating volume of blood on the walls of the arteries, veins, and on the chambers of the heart.
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What is diastolic pressure?
The higher reading which is the maximum about of pressure on the arteries, veins, and chambers of the heart.
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What is systolic pressure?
The lower reading which is the pressure on the arteries, veins, and chambers of the heart at REST.
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What is inspection?
The examiner USES EYES AND EARS to observe and listen to the patient.
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What is palpation?
The examiner FEELS the texture, size, consistency, and location of certain body parts with the hands.
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What is percussion?
The examiner TAPS the body with the fingertips or fist to evaluate the size, border, and consistency of internal organs and to determine the amount of fluid in a body cavity.
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What auscultation?
The examiner LISTENS for sounds within the body to evaluate the heart, blood vessels, lungs, intestines, or other organs, or to detect the fetal heart sound.
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What is a -gram?
Record.
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What is a -graph?
An instrument for recording.
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What is a -graphy?
Process of recording.
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What does electr/o mean?
Electricity
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What does cardi/o mean?
Heart
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What does electrocardiography mean?
The process of recording the electrical impulses of the heart.
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What does radi/o mean?
Radiant energy.
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What is a radiologist?
A specialist in the field of radiology who is concerned with XRAYS, RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES, and the diagnosis and treatment of disease by using any of the various sources of radiant energy.
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What does tom/o mean?
Cut
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What is computed tomography?
It is the use of ionizing radiation to produce a detailed image of a CROSS SECTION of tissue, similar to what one would see if the body or body part were actually CUT INTO SECTIONS.
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What are pharmaceuticals?
Medicinal drugs.
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What does algesi/o mean?
Sensitivity to pain.
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What does narc/o mean?
Stupor
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What does analgesic mean?
A drug that relieves pain.
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What inhibits the growth of microbes?
Antimicrobial
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What is hyperplasia?
An abnormal increase in the number of normal cells in tissue.
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What does anter/o mean?
front
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What does poster/o mean?
Back
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What does posteroanterior mean?
From the back to the front.
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What position is lying face down?
Prone
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What location would pain in the navel and upper back be in?
Abdominothoracic region.
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What is supination?
The rotation of a joint that allows the hand or foot to turn upward.
“Palms up so I can hold a cup of SOUP.”
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What is the dorsal cavity divided into?
Brain and spinal cord.
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What does the ventral cavity contain?
The thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities and where all of the large organs are housed.
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What is a way to remember dorsal vs ventral cavities?
Doors are higher than vents in the floor.
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What is the peritoneum?
It lines the abdominopelvic cavity and enfolds the internal organs.
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What is another names for all of the large organs housed in the ventral cavity?
Viscera
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What is an adhesion?
A STICKING together of two structures that are normally separated.
Think adhesive. It sticks.
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What does spin/o mean?
Spine
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What does -al mean?
Pertaining to
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What is pertaining to the spine?
Spinal
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What does acr/o mean?
Extremities
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What does cyanosis mean?
Condition of blueness
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What is acrocyanosis?
Condition of blueness in the extremities caused by cold, lack of blood flow, or emotional stimuli.
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What does LUQ mean?
Left upper quadrant
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What does LLQ mean?
Left lower quadrant
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What does RUQ mean?
Right upper quadrant
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What does RLQ mean?
Right lower quadrant
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What does -cele mean?
Hernia
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What is an omhalocele?
A hernia of the navel
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What does cephal/o mean?
Head
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What does -metry mean?
Measurement
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What does cephalometry mean?
Measurement of the dimesions of the head.
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What does -algia mean?
Pain
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What is cephalgia?
Pain in the head (headache)
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What does blepharedema mean?
Swelling of the eyelid
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What does dactylitis mean?
Inflammation of the digits (fingers or toes)
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What is onychopathy?
Disease of the nails
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What is Dacrolithiasis?
Presence of a lacrimal stone.
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What is being vulnerable to a disease or disorder?
Susceptibility
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What is hematopoesis?
Formation of the blood cells and takes place in bone marrow.
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What is nonspecific resistance?
Several body systems or structures that help prevent foreign substances from entering the body.
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What is a vaccination?
The administration of an antigenic material to induce immunity.
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What does FEMA stand for?
Federal Emergency Management Agency
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What does WMD stand for?
Weapons of mass destruction
