Chapter 31 Abdominal And Genitourinary Injuries

Question 1

An injury in which there a soft tissue damage inside the body, but the skin remains intact

Answer 1

Closed abdominal injury

Question 2

The displacement of organs outside the body

Answer 2

Evisceration

Question 3

The region below, the rib cage, and above the hip

Answer 3

Flank

Question 4

Involuntary muscle contractions of the abdominal wall to minimize the pain of the abdominal movement, a sign of peritonitis

Answer 4

Guarding

Question 5

Blood in the urine

Answer 5

hematuria

Question 6

Structures through which materials pass such as the stomach, small intestines, large intestines, utereters and urinary bladder

Answer 6

Hollow organs

Question 7

An injury in which there is a break in the surface of the skin, or mucous membrane, exposing deeper tissue to the potential contamination

Answer 7

Open abdominal injury

Question 8

The abdominal cavity

Answer 8

Paratonial cavity

Question 9

The membrane lining the abdominal cavity, (parietal peritoneum) and covering the abdominal organs,(viscral peritonium)

Answer 9

Peritonium

Question 10

The potential space located posterior to the peritoneal cavity of the abdomen

Answer 10

Retropetitoneum

Question 11

Solid masses of tissue where much of the chemical work of the body takes place

Answer 11

Solid organs