dx Cause of disease determined by the veterinarian

Week One: Testing drugs, diseases, and dissection Flashcards by Anna Chanslor

What is assessment?

Evaluation of a condition

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What is a signalment?

Description of the animal

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What does a signalment contain?

Species, breed, age, reproductive status, and color

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What are vital signs?

Objective patient data

Parameters taken from the animal to assess its health

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What are examples of vital signs?

temperature, pulse and pulse rate, heart rate, respiration and respiration rate, and blood pressure

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What is febrile?

Fever

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What is Afebrile?

Non fever

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What is pyrexia?

Patient has a fever

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What does a sphygmomanometer measure?

KNOW HOW TO SPELL THIS

Measures blood pressure

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What is auscultation?

The act of listening to body sounds

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What is palpation?

Examination by feeling

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What is percussion?

Examination by tapping the surface to determine density of a body area

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What is speculum?

Used to see into body cavities

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What does CBC stand for?

Complete blood count

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What is an assay?

Test

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What is a refractometer?

Measures refractions (like urine or plasma and sees how light is bending through them)

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What is a centrifuge?

Spins and separates things

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What is a diagnosis?

Cause of disease determined by the veterinarian

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What is differential diagnosis?

ddx

List of possible causes of a disease

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What is a prognosis?

Prediction of the outcome of disease determined by the veterinarian

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What is a sign?

What you see happen because of a disease

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What is a symptom?

Felt by the patient

Usually used in human medicine

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What is acute?

Fast onset

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What is chronic?

Long term, slow onset

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What is endemic?

Something within a group

What is epidemic?

Something outside a group

What is pandemic?

Something everywhere, all people

What is a pathogen?

Microorganism that produces disease

What is a disease?

Deviation from normal

What does infectious mean?

Caused by pathogens

What is noninfectious?

Not caused by pathogens

What is communicable?

disease spread form one animal to another by direct or indirect contact and disorder transmitted from animal to animal or through contact with contaminated object

What is iatrogenic?

Disease caused by the vet. team

What is nosocomial?

Get sick from the clinic

What is idiopathic?

Disease where you have no idea why it's occurring

What is prokaryotic?

Cell with no nucleus

Bacteria are...

Microscopic, prokaryotic, unicellular

Fungi are...

Eukaryotic, lacking chlorophyll

What are parasites?

Live on or in another living organism

What are viruses?

Sub-microscopic, survive only by invading other cells

What is transmission?

Disease transfer

What is morbidity?

Healthy vs. disease

What is mortality?

How many animals live vs. die from disease

What is prophylaxis?

Prevention

What is zoonosis?

A disease transmissible between humans and animals

What is clinical?

We can test for or see

What is subclinical?

Not showing signs of disease

What is labile?

Unstable

What is moribund?

Dying or near death

What is a sequela?

Disease causes another condition

What is a palliative?

Treatment | Can't cure disease but we make more comfortable (like herpes or terminal cancer)

What is an endoscopy?

Visual examination of the interior of any cavity of the body by means of an endoscope (internal organs)

What is centesis?

Surgical puncture to remove fluid or gas

What is radiography?

X rays

What is fluoroscopy?

Inject something that glows and we can see in X rays

What is pharmacology?

Study of the nature, uses, and effects of drugs

What is a prescription drug?

Medication that may be purchased used only by the order of a veterinarian

What is pharmacokinetic?

How a drug moves

What is pharmacodynamic?

How a drug works

What is an agonist?

Drug that binds

What is an antagonist?

Drug that blocks

What is chelate?

How a substance is handled in solution

What is osmosis?

How water moves

What is efficacy?

How a drug functions clinically

What does PO stand for?

Orally

What is parenteral?

Non-GI tract

What is enteral or nonparenteral?

By the GI tract

What is analgesic?

Pain relief meds

What is anesthetic?

Numbing/can't feel what is happening

What is an antibiotic?

Kill bacteria

What is -pyrectic?

fever

What is -pruritic?

Itchning

What is -coagulant?

Clotting

What is -convulsant?

Seizures

What is -neoplastic?

Tumor

What is -tussive?

Coughing

What is emetic?

Causes vomiting

What is antiemetic?

Prevents vomiting

What is monovalent?

Protects against one disease

What is polyvalent?

Protects against more than one disease

What is asepsis?

State of being without infection

What is antiseptic?

Against infection

What is disinfectant?

On inanimate objects

What is excise?

Cut out

What is incise?

cut into

What is ligate?

Tie

What is inversion?

Turn in

What is eversion?

Turn out

What is transect?

Cutting across

What is dissect?

Cutting into

What is debridement?

Remove dead tissue

What is dehiscence?

Surgical sight has opened

What is enucelation?

Removal of entire thing (usually eyes)

What is eviscerate?

Expose/remove internal organs

What is fenestration?

Window/hole

What is friable?

Likely to fall apart

What is lavage?

Put fluid to wash out

What is lumpectomy?

Removal of any chunk of anything

What is a ventral midline incision?

Cut along the midsagittal plane of the abdomen

What is a paramedian incision?

Cut lateral and parallel to the ventral midline

What is a flank incision?

Cut perpendicular to the long axis of the body

What is a paracostal incision?

Cut oriented parallel to the last rib

What is a biopsy?

Removing living tissue to examine

What is excisional?

Removing an entire mass

What is incisional?

Removing part of a mass, tissue, or organ

What is a punch?

Use of a punch instrument to remove a piece of tissue

What is an autoclave?

Steam, heat, or pressure to sterilize

What is a boxlock?

Hinge of an instrument

What is a drape?

Cover parts we are not performing surgery on

Where are pins located?

Inside medullary cavity of bone

Where are screws?

Outside of bones

What is a bandage?

Covers wound

What is a sling

Bind so the wound can't be used

What is a cast?

Hard bandage

What is a wrap?

Provide compression, nothing to do with wound

What is a swaged needle?

Needle attached to thread already

What is a taper needle?

Pointy needle

What is a cutting needle?

Makes blade at the end

What do surgical clips do?

Holds something off

What is ligation?

Tying

Week One: Testing drugs, diseases, and dissection Flashcards

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