Abb Flashcards
ABRASION
A partial- thickness wound caused by the scraping away or rubbing of the skin.
ABUSE
The willful infliction or injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment that results in physical harm, pain, or mental anguish, depriving the person (or the person’s caregiver) if the goods or services needed to attain or maintain well-being.
ACTIVITY OF DAYLY LIVING
The activities necessary for the client to fulfill basic human needs (toileting, eating, dressing, hygiene)
ANURIA
No urinary output.
APHASIA
Impaired or lost ability to communicate through speech due to dysfunction of brain centers. The total or partial loss of the ability to use or understand language, a language disorder resulting from damage to parts of the brain responsible for language.
ATROPHY
Shrink. The decrease in size of the wasting away of tissue.
ARTERY
A blood Vessel that carries blood away from the heart.
ASPIRATION
Breathing fluid, food, vomitus, or an object into the lungs.
BATTERY
Touching person’s body without his or her consent.
CHEYNE-STOKES RESPIRATION
Respiration’s gradually increase I rate and depth and then become shallow and slow, breathing may stop for 10-20 seconds.
CONSTRICT
To narrow
CYANOSIS
Bluish color.
DEMENTIA
The loss of cognitive function that interferes weigh routine personal, social, and occupational activities.
DIASTOLIC
Measurement of blood pressure when the heart is relaxing.
DILATE
To expand or open wider
DISABILITY
Any lost, absent, or impaired physical or mental function.
DYSPNEA
Difficult or labored respiration.
EDEMA
The swelling of legs and or arms or other body parts when water is being retained unnaturally.
EMBOLUS
A blood clot that travels through the vascular system until it lodges in a blood vessel.
EMESIS
Vomitus.
EXTENSION
Straightening a body part.
FRAUD
Saying or doing something to trick, fool or deceive a person.
HYPOXEMIA
A reduced amount of oxygen in the blood.
INVASION OF PRIVACY
Violating a person’s right not to have his or her name, photo, or private affair exposed or made public without giving consent
LATERAL
Away from the mid-line, at the side of the body or body part.
LETHARGY
A state of unnatural tiredness, feelings of exhaustion and sleepiness.
MEDIAL
At or near the middle or mid-line of the body or body part.
NEGLIGENCE
An intentional wrong in which a person did not act in a reasonable and careful manner and person or person’s property was harmed.
PATHOGEN
A microbe that is harmful and can cause an infection.
POSTERIOR
At or toward the back of the body or body part.
PROCIMAL
The part nearest to the center or to the point of origin.
REFLEX
An involuntary movement.
SITZ BATH
Bath providing moist heat to the genitals or anal area.
SPUTUM
Mucus from the reparatory system that is expectorated through the mouth.
SPHYGMOMANOMETER
The instrument used to measure blood pressure.
STRESS
The response or change in the body caused by any emotional, physical, social, or economic factor.
THROMBUS
Blood clot that forms inside artery.
TRANSFER
Moving a person from one room or nursing unit to another.
TACHYCARDIA
A rapid heartbeat.
TACHYPNEA
Rapid breathing, respirations are more than 20 per minute.
UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS
A system of infectious disease control which assumes that every direct contact with body fluids is infectious and require every health care worker exposed to direct contact with body fluids or body substance to be protected.
VEHICLE
Any substance that transmits microbes.
VEIN
A blood vessel that returns blood to the heart
