nursing vocab
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- vasicular sound
- normal soft low pitched E<1 heard over most lung fields
- adventituious sounds
- abnormal breath sounds
- vocal or tactile fremitus
- vibrations felt over the chest when client speaks "99"
- thoracic expanse
- movement of the thorzx horizontally
- retraction
- inward pulling in of intercostal spaces seen in severe hypoxia or respitory distress
- bronchial sounds
- E>1 normal heard over trachea high pitches hollow
- bronchialvesicular sound
- e=1 heard over bifurcation of bronchiol T4 in posterior 2ICS in the anterior
- sputum
- substance expelled by coughing (mucus, cells, organisms)
- scapulae
- shoulder blades
- resonant
- air filled as in normal lung percussion
- percussion
- assesment technique of tapping body surface to detect air mass or fluid
- mucus
- fluid secreted by mucus membranes and glands
- hypoxia
- decreased concentration of cellular oxygen
- expectoration
- coughing up of mucous formed in air passages
- accessory muscles
- involvment of the trapezius, sternocleomastoid and scalene muslces in breathing process
- anoxia
- diminished oxygen in arterial blood despite normal O2 capacity