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Basic Scribe Terminology Flashcards

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Artery

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Blood vessel carrying blood away from heart

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Anterior

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Towards front of body

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Auscultate

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Listen w stethoscope

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Bony tenderness

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Pain elicited from press on bone rather than soft tissue

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Bradycardia

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Slow hr less than 60 bpm

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Cholecystitis

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Inflammation of gallbladder

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Coronary Artery

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Artery supplies heart tissue w blood

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Cva

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stroke. Hemorrhagic or ischemic

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Diffuse

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All over

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Distal

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Farther from trunk of body

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Focal

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Located in one specific area (opp diffuse)

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Hemoptysis

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Coughing up blood

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Hepatomegaly

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Enlarged liver

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Htn

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High blood pressure

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Hypoxia

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Low o2 saturation of body, not enough 02 in blood

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Incontinence

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Accidental passing of urine or bm

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Infarct

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Area of dead tissue after lack of blood supply

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Ischemia

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Lack of blood supply

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Lateral

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Farther from midline (line from nose to belly)

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Myocardial infarction

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Heart attack- death of cardiac muscle due to ischemia

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Myalgia

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Muscular aches/pains

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Oriented x3

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Oriented to person, place and time

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Palpitations

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Heart racing/pounding/fluttering feeling in chest

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Pruritic

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Itchy

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Point tenderness

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Press to area generates pain

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Posterior/dorsal

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Rear/backside of body

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Proximal

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Near trunk of body

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Pulmonary embolism

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Block of pulmonary artery due to blood clot

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Rales

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Crackle sound in lungs

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Rhonchi

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Rattling noise in lungs

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Soft tissue tenderness

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Tenderness of soft tissue, muscle, skin, fat. Opp of bony tenderness

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STEMI

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St elevated mi- active heart attack/death of tissue due to ischemia

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Superior

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Higher to head on body

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Supine

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Lying face up

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Tachycardia

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Fast hr higher than 100 bpm

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Tachypnea

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Increased breathing rate

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TIA

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Minor stroke, neuro function regained over time

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Vein

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Blood vessel carrying blood to heart

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Wheezing

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High pitched sound from lungs w asthmatics or pts w lung dz

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