Ab/ Thorax Terms

Question 1

Ausculation

Answer 1

Listening for sounds produced by the thorax cavity or abdominal region

Question 2

Percussion

Answer 2

Palpation and tapping for rigidity or deformation

Question 3

Ischemia

Answer 3

Blood flow is restricted to a certain part of the body

Question 4

Dyspnea

Answer 4

Shortness of breath

Question 5

Hemoptysis

Answer 5

Blood goes into the lungs, coughing blood

Question 6

Hematemesis

Answer 6

Blood goes into the stomach, vomit blood

Question 7

Ecchymosis

Answer 7

Discoloured skin from internal bleeding (bruise)

Question 8

Air crepitus

Answer 8

Popping/ crackling sounds from lungs

Question 9

Bony creptius

Answer 9

Popping, crackling of joints in the body

Question 10

Cyanosis

Answer 10

Poor blood circulation

Question 11

Pericardial tamponnade

Answer 11

Pericardium fills with fluid and your heart can’t expand.

Question 12

Distension

Answer 12

Abnormally swollen outward

Question 13

Hepperresonance

Answer 13

Air filling the area around the lungs so the lungs can’t expand fully (can’t breath)

Question 14

Pylorus of stomach

Answer 14

First part of the small intestine that allows food to pass from stomach to intestine

Question 15

Hypertension

Answer 15

High blood pressure

Question 16

Levine Sign

Answer 16

Someone holding their chest, significantly a heart problem

Question 17

Shock

Answer 17

Life threatening condition of circulation failure

Question 18

Guarding

Answer 18

Voluntarily / involuntarily tensing muscles of abdomen

Question 19

Pneumothorax

Answer 19

Blunt or sharp trama to the chest, air accumulation in the chest

Question 20

Tension pneumothorax

Answer 20

Air from the lungs escaping into the pleural space and not allowed to return so it creates a one way valve- sucking air out of the body

Question 21

Hemothorax

Answer 21

Blood collects in pleural space caused by fractured ribs or other trama

Question 22

Traumatic Hysphyxia

Answer 22

heart stopped