Medical Terminology THE REMAINDER
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- DEBRIDEMENT
- REMOVAL OF DEAD TISSUE FROM A WOUND
- ESCHAR
- SCAB OR DRY CRUST THAT RESULTS FROM EXCORIATION OF THE SKIN
- EXUDATE
- FLUID CELLS OR OTHER SUBSTANCED THAT HAVE BEEN SLOWLY DISCHARGED FROM CELLS OR BLOOD VESSELS THROUGH SMALL PORES OR BREAKS IN THE CELL MEMBRANES
- MACERATION
- THE SOFTENING AND BREAKING DOWN OF SKIN RESULTING FROM PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO MOISTURE
- SHEAR
- APPLIED FORCE OR PRESSURE EXERTED AGAINS THE SURFACE AND LAYERS OF THE SKIN AS TISSUES SLIDE IN OPPOSITE BUT PARRELL LINES
- NECROSIS
- LOCOLAIZED TISSUE DEATH THAT OCCURS IN GROUPS OF CELLS IN RESPONSE TO DISEASE OR INJURY
- ISCHEMIA
- A DECREASED SUPPLY OF OXYGENATED BLOOD TO A BODY ORGAN OR PART
- GRANULATION TISSUE
- SOFT PINK, FLESHY PROJECTIONS OF TISSUE THAT FORM DURING THE HEALING PROCESS IN A WOUND THAT IS NOT HEALING BY PRIMARY INTENTION
- DEHISCENCE
- SEPARATION OF A WOUND'S EDGES THAT REVEALS UNDERLYING TISSUES
- STERILE
- FREE OF LIVING MICROORGANISMS
- SURGICAL ASEPSIS
- PROCEDURES USED TO ELIMINATE ALL MICROORGANISMS INCLUDING PATHOGENS AND SPORES FROM AN OBJECT OR AREA
- MICTURITION
- URINATION ACT OF PASSING OR EXPELLING URINE VOLUNTARILY THROUGH THE URETHA
- STERILE FIELD
- SPECIFIED AREA SUCH AS WITHIN A TRAY OR ON A STERILE TOWEL THAT IS CONSIDERED FREE OF MICROORGANISMS
- RESIDUAL URINE
- VOLUME OF URINE REMAINING IN THE BLADDER AFTER A NORMAL VOIDING; THE BLADDER NORMALLY IS ALMOST COMPLETELY EMPTY AFTER MICTURITION
- URINE SPECIFIED GRAVITY
- A MEASURE OF THE DEGREE OF CONCENTRATION OF A SAMPLE OF URINE
- DORSAL RECUMBENT
- LYING ON THE BACK LIKE IN A SUPINE POSITION
- FENESTRATED
- HAVING NUMEROUS SMALL HOLES OR OPENINGS
- PEAK ACTION
- THE AMOUNT OF MEDICATIONS IN THE BLOOD THAT REPRESENTS THE HIGHEST LEVEL DURING A DRUG ADMINISTRATION
- IDIOSYNCRATIC REACTION
- INDIVIDUAL SENSITIVITIES TO DRUG EFFECTS CAUSED BY INHERITED OR OTHER BODILY CONSTITUTION FACTORS
- ALLERGY
- A HYPERSENSITIVE REACTION TO INTRINSICALLY COMMON, HARMLESS ANTIGEN MOST OF WHICH ARE ENVIROMENTAL
- SIDE EFFECT
- ANY REACTION OR CONSEQUENCE THAT RESULTS FROM MEDICATION OR THERAPY
- MDI
- METERED DOSE INHALER: INHALER DESIGNED TO PRODUCE LOCAL EFFECTS SUCH AS BRONCHODILATION
- OTIC
- PERTAINING TO THE EAR
- ANAPHYLAXIS
- AN EXAGGERATED LIFE THREATENING HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION TO A PREVIOUSLY ENCOUNTERED ANTIGEN
- MYDRIATICS
- ANYONE OF SEVERAL OPHTHALMIC PHARMACEUTIC PREPARATIONS THAT DILATE THE PUPIL AND PARALYZE THE OCULAR MUSCLES OF ACCOMODATION
- PRURITUS
- SYMPTOM OF ITCHING
- ASPIRATE
- TO WITHDRAW FLUID OR AIR FROM A CAVITY
- DILUENT
- A SUBSTANCE USUALLY A FLUID THAT MAKES A SOLUTION OR A MIXTURE LESS CONCENTRATED LESS VISCOUS OR MORE LIQUID
- INDURATION
- HARDENING OF A TISSUE PARTICULLARLY SKIN BECASUE OF EDEMA OR INFLAMMATION
- INTRADERMAL
- WITHIN THE DERMIS OF THE SKIN
- TRANSDERMAL
- TOPICALLY
- GRANULATION
- the formation of granulation tissue, esp. in healing
- PRIMARY DRESSING
- a covering (as of ointment or gauze) applied to a lesion
- STERILE FLUID
- free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms; "aseptic"
- PLATEAU
- period of little or no apparent progress in an individual's learning, marked by an inability to increase speed, reduce number of errors, etc., and indicated by a horizontal stretch in a learning curve or graph.