Medical Terminology Flashcards by Beau Lynch

Localized collection of pus on any part of the body

Abscess

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A class of water soluble proteins than can be coagulated by heat & precipitated by strong acids and are found in egg white, blood serum, milk, and many other animal and plant juices and tissues.

Albumin

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When oxygenated blood does not flow freely through the vessels to the tissue

Altered Tissue Perfusion

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Situated at or directed toward the front of something

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Programmed cell death ; a process including coagulative necrosis and shrinkage

Apoptosis

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Lack of perfusion from the arteries

Aterial Insufficiency

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Disintegration of tissue or of cells by the body’s own mechanisms

Autolysis

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Without vascularization

Avascular

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The main supportive protein of skin, tendon, bone, cartilage, and connective tissue.

Collagen

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Removal of devitalized tissue and foreign matter from a wound.

Debridement

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Method of debridement; use of synthetic dressings to cover a wound and allow eschar to self digest by the action of enzymes present in wound fluids.

Autolytic Debridement

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Method of debridement; the topical application of proteolytic substances to break down devitalized tissue.

Enzymatic (Chemical) Debridement

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Method of debridement; removal of foreign material and devitalized or contaminated tissue from a wound by physical forces rather than by chemical or natural forces. Examples: Wet-to-Dry dressings, Wound irrigation, whirlpool.

Mechanical Debridement

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Method of debridement; removal of foreign material or devitalized tissue by a sharp instrument such as a scalpel. Laser debridement is also considered this type.

Sharp Debridement

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The sensitive vascular inner mesodermic layer of the skin.

Dermis

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To split along a natural line

Dehisce

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To divest of a covering

Denude

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Another term for Necrotic Tissue

Devitalized Tissue

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A disease characterized by an inability to process sugars in the diet due to a decrease in or total absence of insulin production.

Diabetes.

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A process of filtering and removing waste products from the bloodstream.

Dialysis

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Type of dialysis that the blood flows out of the body into a machine that filters waste products and routes the cleansed blood back into the body.

Hemodialysis.

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Type of dialysis that the cleansing occurs inside the body. Dialysis fluid is injected into the body and wastes are filtered.

Peritoneal dialysis

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Means remote, or farther from any point of reference.

Distal

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The process of abnormally large amounts of fluid in the interstitial space.

Edema

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Any of the ions that in a biological fluid regulate or affect most metabolic processes used especially in biology and chemistry.

Electrolytes

The outer nonsensitive and nonvascular layer of the skin.

Epidermis

Regeneration of the epidermis across wound surface.

Epithelialization

Redness of the skin surface produced by vasodilatation.

Erythema

Avascular tissue found in a wound that is characterized by a dark and leathery appearance.

Eschar

The cause or origin of a disease or disorder as determined by medical diagnosis.

Etiology

Superficial traumatic abrasions and scratches which remove some of the skin substance.

Excoriation

Process of a waste product (i.e. urine, feces) eliminated from the body.

Excretion

A material, such as fluid, cells, or cell debris, which has escaped from the blood vessels and has been deposited in tissue surfaces, usually as a result of inflammation or injury. Usually high in protein and WBC.

Exudate

A sheet or band of fibrous tissue that lies deep below the skin or encloses muscles and various organs of the body.

Fascia

Any cell or corpuscle from which connective tissue is developed.

Fibroblast

An insoluble protein that is essential to clotting of blood, formed from fibrinogen by action of thrombin.

Fibrin

A protein in the blood plasma that is essential for the coagulation of blood and is converted to fibrin by thrombin and ionized calcium.

Fibrinogen

Tissue destruction extending through the dermis to involve the subcutaneous layer and possible muscle/bone.

Full Thickness Tissue Loss

The pink/red, moist tissue that contains new blood vessels, collagen, fibroblasts, and inflammatory cells, which fills an open, previously deep wound when it starts to heal.

Granulation Tissue

Proteins that affect proliferation, movement, maturation, and biosynthetic activity of cells.

Growth Factors

The stopping of bleeding or blood flow through a blood vessel or organ. In would healing, this is the first phase.

Hemostasis

The state of balance in the internal environment of the body achieved by various control mechanisms.

Homeostasis

The introduction of additional fluid into the body.

Hydration

Attracting Moisture

Hydrophilic

Repelling Moisture

Hydrophobic

A treatment in which the patient is placed in a chamber and breathes oxygen at higher that atmospheric pressure

HBO - Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Something that impedes; a hindrance or an obstruction

Impediment

Inability to control evacuative functions, such as defecation or urination

Incontinence

The establishment of a pathogen in its host after invasion

Infection

a part of the body located below another.

Inferior

A protective tissue response to injury or destruction of tissues, which serves to destroy, dilute, or wall off both the injurious agent and injured tissues.

Inflammation

A deficiency of blood due to functional constriction or obstruction of a blood vessel to a part.

Ischemia

Means "on the side"

Lateral

Softening of tissue by soaking in fluids

Maceration

The visible contraction of wound edges under negative pressure.

Macrostrain

Ankle bone

Malleolus

Means "toward the middle"

Medial

the chemical changes in living cells by which energy is provided for vital processes and activities and new materials is assimilated.

Metabolism

The deformation of tissue at the cellular level as cells stretched with V.A.C. GranuFoam under negative pressure.

Microdeformation

A unit of measurement of strain. This equals the strain that produces a deformation of one part per million.

Microstrain

An organism of microscopic size.

Microorganism

avascualar tissue that is dead or devitalized.

Necrotic tissue

a condition affecting the nerves supplying the arms and legs. Typically, the feet and hands are involved first. If sensory nerves are involved, numbness, tingline, and pain or prominent, and if motor nerves are involved, the patient experiences weakness.

Neuropathy

Loss of epidermis and possible partial loss of dermis. Does not extend into the subcutaneous fat or below.

Partial thickness tissue loss

The passage of fluid (such as blood) through a specific organ or area of the body.

Perfusion

A sequence of muscle contractions that progressively squeeze one small section of the digestive tract and then the next to push food along the tract.

Peristalsis

Pertaining to the sole of the foot.

Plantar

Directed toward or situated at the back; opposite of anterior.

Posterior

is an open wound that forms whenever prolonged pressure is applied to skin covering bony outcrops of the body. Patients who are bedridden are at risk for this.

Pressure Ulcer

A method of wound closure using sutures, staples, or surgical bond to approximate wound edges.

Primary Intention

The growth and reproduction of similar cells. In wounds, this is the third phase of wound characterized by the presence of granulation tissue, wound edge contraction, and epitheliazation.

Proliferation

The body lying face down

Prone

Nearest point of reference

Proximal

Exudate consisting of or containing pus

Purulence

Thick fluid containing leukocytes, bacteria, and cell debris; may be indicative of infection.

Pus

The final differentiation process in biological systems, such as attainment of total functional capability by a cell, a tissue, or an organ. In wound healing, this is the fourth phase of healing and is seen as scar formation (maturation).

Remodeling

Triangular bone at the base of the spine.

Sacrum

A method of wound closure used on large deficit wounds that cannot be closed with sutures, this method leaves the wound open to heal from the inside out.

Secondary Intention

Found in chronic wounds, the are old cells that are unresponsive and unable to divide

Senescent Cells

A collection of serum/plasma within a wound

Seroma

Necrotic (dead) tissue in the process of separating from viable portions of the body.In wounds, this tissue is usually yellow or creamy in color, moist, and stringy.

Slough

Situated in a higher position on the body, closer to the head and farther from the feet.

Superior

a body lying face up on the back

Supine

A method of wound closure used on contaminated or dirty wounds leaving them open for a short period of time for cleansing and disinfecting and then closed with sutures, staples, or surgical bond.

Tertiary Intention

A local defect, or excavation of the surface, or an organ or tissue produced by sloughing of necrotic inflammatory tissue.

Ulcer

Pertaining to vessels, particularly blood vessels

Vascular

Lack of perfusion from the veins

Venous Insufficiency

The pooling of venous blood in a particular region which, in the legs results in edema, hyperpigmentation and possibly ulceration.

Venous stasis

The management of the wound to accelerate endogenous healing or to facilitate the effectiveness of other therapeutic measures.

Wound Bed Preparation

Rim or border of wound

Wound Margin

the study of cells and tissue sections on the microscopic level

Histology

to put something together, to make something out of different parts. The artificial building of a chemical compound.

Synthesize

the process by which less specialized cell become more specialized cell type.

Differentiate

any observed quality of an organism, such as morphology, development, or behavior.

Phenotypes

the insoluble protein formed from fibrinogen by the proteolytic action of thrombin during normal clotting of blood.

Fibrin Clot

alive, able to reproduce

viable

drawn out at length

elongate

inactive

Quiescent

a phenotype specifically for tissue growth

proliferative phenotype

a procedure where a property or concentration of an analyte is measured

Assays

protected by trademark, patent, or copyright

propietary

biological activity of physical stresses that occur in body

biomechanical

the chemical reactions and processes in the body

biochemical

the growth and repeated production of new cells, tissues, and organs

proliferation

a physiological process involving the growth of new blood vessels from pre existing

Angiogenesis

A group in a study who recieves the standard treatment/care or a placebo.

Control Group

Unites or combines different parts

Manifold

The process of technique of making body tissue grow in a culture medium outside the organism

Tissue Culture

Medical Terminology Flashcards

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