Nursing 2
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- abduction
- The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
- adduction
- The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its axis
- ambulation
- The act of walking
- anorexia
- Loss of appetite
- anoxia
- Absence of oxygen
- asepsis
- 1. freedom from infectious material. 2. the abscense of viable pathogenic organisms
- atelectasis
- Total or partial collapse of the lung
- atrophy
- A wasting or decrease in size of a body organ, tissue, or part owing to disease, injury, or lack of use
- circumduction
- The circular movement of a limb such that the distal end of the limb delineates an arc
- contracture
- An abnormal, often permanent shortening, as of muscle or scar tissue, that results in distortion or deformity, especially of a joint of the body
- cyanosis
- A bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes resulting from inadequate oxygenation of the blood
- debridement
- Surgical excision of dead, devitalized, or contaminated tissue and removal of foreign matter from a wound.
- dorsiflexion
- The turning of the foot or the toes upward
- edema
- An excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue spaces or a body cavity
- embolus
- A mass, such as an air bubble, a detached blood clot, or a foreign body, that travels through the bloodstream and lodges so as to obstruct or occlude a blood vessel.
- erythema
- Redness of the skin caused by dilatation and congestion of the capillaries, often a sign of inflammation or infection.
- eschar
- A dry scab or slough formed on the skin as a result of a burn or by the action of a corrosive or caustic substance.
- eversion
- The act of turning inside out.
- excoriation
- To tear or wear off the skin of; abrade
- extention
- The straightening of a limb, in distinction from flexion.
- exudate
- A substance that has oozed forth.
- fibrosis
- formation of fibrous tissues
- flaccid
- Lacking firmness, resilience, or muscle tone
- flexion
- The act of bending a joint or limb in the body by the action of flexors.
- gait
- Pattern of walking.
- hygiene
- The science that deals with the promotion and preservation of health
- hyperextention
- Extension of a bodily joint beyond its normal range of motion.
- hypertrophy
- A nontumorous enlargement of an organ or a tissue as a result of an increase in the size rather than the number of constituent cells
- incontinence
- The inability to control excretory functions.
- ankylosis
- The stiffening or immobility of a joint resulting from disease, trauma, surgery, or bone fusion.
- interstitial
- Relating to or situated in the small, narrow spaces between tissues or parts of an organ
- inversion
- a turning inward, inside out, or other reversal of the normal relation of a part
- ischemia
- deficiency of blood in a part, due to functional contriction or action obstruction of a blood vessel
- lateral position
- denoting a position farther from the median plane or midline of the body or structure
- lithotomy
- incision of a duct or organ for removal of calculi
- logrolling
- method of turning patients following neurosurgical procedures when the spine must be maintained in alighnment. Two nurses use a sheet to turn the patient as a unit, if the patient is unable to support the head a third party is neccesary
- maceration
- the softening of a solid by soaking
- necrosis
- the morphological changest indicative of cell death cause my enzygomatic degradation
- pallor
- paleness, as of the skin
- pressure
- stress or strain , compression, expansion, pull, thrust, or shear
- presssure ulcer
- an ulcer due to local interference with the circulation
- pronation
- To turn or rotate (the hand or forearm) so that the palm faces down or back.
- vasodilation
- Dilation of a blood vessel, as by the action of a nerve or drug.
- recumbant position
- lying down
- restraint
- forcible confinement of a confused, disoriented, psyhiotic, or irrational person
- rotation
- turnin around in an axis
- supine position
- lying with face upward, or on the dorsal surface
- thrombophlebitis
- Dilation of a blood vessel, as by the action of a nerve or drug.
- thrombus
- A fibrinous clot formed in a blood vessel or in a chamber of the heart.
- vasoconstriction
- Constriction of a blood vessel, as by a nerve or drug.
- active range of motion(AROM)
- when patient does isotonic expercises in which the client moves each joint in the body through a comple range of motion
- urnirary stasis
- stoppage or slowdown of flow
- Fowlers position
- semi sitting position while lieing in bed
- high fowlers postion
- head and trunk raise 90 degrees while on bed
- low fowler postion
- head and trunk raised about 15 to 45 degrees
- passive range of motion(PROM)
- when another person moves wach of the clients joints through their isotonic excercises
- sims postion
- position between lateral and prone
- prone position
- client lies on abdomen with head turned to one side
- renal calculi
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- trendelenburg
- head of bed is lowered and the foot reiased in a striaght incline