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Midterm Vocab Flashcards

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Ahedonia

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Little pleasure or interest in doing things

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Circumlocutions

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When you subsitute a a phrase for a word “thing you block writing with” eraser

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Paraphrasias

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Words malformed “I write with a den” not pen

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Circumstantiality

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speech delayed due to patients excessive use of words that have no connection

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Derailment

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when a patient switches topics with no apparent connection

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Flight of Ideas

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Topics make sense, just speaking extremely fast

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Neologisms

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Invented or distorted words

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confabulation

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fabrication of facts to hide memory impairment

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perseveration

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persistent repetition of words or fears

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Echolalia

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repetition of words or phrases of others

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Clanging

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choosing a word on the basis of sound not meaning

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OLDCARTS

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Onset
Location
Duration
Character
Aggravating/Alleviating
Radiation
Timing Setting

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Lanual

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white moon shape of nail near cuticle

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Lesion Description

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Location
Distribution
Patterns
Shapes
Type

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Mole Examination

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ABCDE

Asymmetry
Borders
Color
Diameter
Evolution
Firmness
Growing

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Primary Skin Lesions

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Arise primary in the skin, from the enviornment

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Secondary

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Can be systemic in origin

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Primary skin lesions can be either…

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Flat or Raised

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Macule

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flat, non-palpable less than 1 cm P

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Patch

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Flat, greater than 1 cm P

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Papule

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Raised, palpable, non fluid filled, less than 1 cm P

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Plaque

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Slightly raised, palpable, non fluid filled, greater than one cm P

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Vesicle

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raised, less than 1 cm, filled with clear fluid P

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Pustule

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raised, 0.5-1cm filled with cloudy, yellow fluid P

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Bullla
raised, greater than 1 cm and fluid filled P
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Nodule
Greater then 1 cm papule P
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Tumor
Greater then 1 cm nodule P
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Wheal
urticaria, hives P
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Secondary Skin Lesions
Scales Crusts Erosions- could be P Ulcers- could be P Fissures Scares
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Macule
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Papule
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Plaque
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Wheal
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Nodule
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Vesicle
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Bula
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Pustule
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Cyst
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Ulcer
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Crust
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Atrophy
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Scale
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Exoriation
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Fissure
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Another word for round
discoid
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Annular
Round but think ring worm, clearing in the middle
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Zosteriform
Think along the nerves
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Zosteriform
Think along the nerves
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Stellate
Starshaped
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Serpiginous
Snake like or wavy like rash
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Reticulate
net-like or lacey
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example of skin lesion with border raised above the center
basal cell carcinoma
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Telangiecasis
veins in lesion that are completely blanch-able
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Verrucous
Warty
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Laungo
fine downy growth of hair on a newborn
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4 common newborn conditions
Miliaria Rubra Erthema Toxicum Pustular Melanosis Milia
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PUPP
From stretching skin during pregnancy
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Impertigo Herpetiformis
Severe inflamation, skin folds during pregnancy, risk of still birth and rarely fatale
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Pemphigoid Gestation
Autoimmune, itchy hives, naval
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Actinic Purpura
the purple macules on old people
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morbilliform rash
rash that develops from adverse drug reaction
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strabismus
cross eyed
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amblyopia
lazy eye
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hordeolum
stye
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myopia
near- sightedness
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hyperopia
far-sighted
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flat percussion
large plueral effusion
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dull percussion
lobar PNA
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Resonant
Simple chronic bronchitis
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Hyperresonant
COPD, pneumothorax
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Tympanic
LARGE pneumothorax
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When Dullness Replaces Resonance
when fluid or solid tissue replaces air
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Vesiculuar
Inspiratory longer then expiratory soft low Over most of both lungs
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Broncho-vesicular
inspiratory and expiratory are equal interemediate/intermediate 1st and 2nd intercostal spaces, and between scapula
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Bronchial
-expiratory sounds last longer than inspiratory -load -relativily high -over the manubrium/larger proximal airways
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Tracheal
Inspiratory and Expiratory sounds are almost equal very loud relatively high over the trachea and in the neck
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Where are crackles for lung tissue best heard?
posterior inferior lung fields
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OS
Left- Sinisuterous
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OD
RIGHT
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OU
BOTH
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Norma ABI (Ankle Brachial Index)
0.90-1.40

Health Assessment Midterm Vocab (1 decks)

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