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Anthropometry

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The science os size, proportion, weight, and height

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Vital Signs

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Indicators of the body’s ability to maintain homestasis, Temperature (T) , pulse(P), respiration(R), and blood pressure (BP)

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Pyrexia

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A bodys temperaturen above 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit

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Febrile

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Condition caused by fever.

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Afebrile

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A condition not caused by fever

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Hyperpyrexia

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A very high fever

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Hyperthermia

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A high body temperature is caused by being exposed to high external temperatures , such as from being outdoors on a very hot day

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Hypothermia

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A body temperature below 97 degrees farenheit. The body is losing more heat that its producing. Occurs in cases of environmental exposure to cool or cold temperatures.

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Fernulum linguae

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Under the tongue, the longitudinal fold or mucous membrane. Tongue web.

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Tympanic membrane thermometer

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Aural thermometer, used for the ear temperature

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Tachycardia

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A rapid pulse rate, above 100bmp.

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Bardycardia

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A slow pulse rate, below 60bpm

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Rate

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The number pf pulse beats per minute

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Volume

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The strength of the pulse when the heart contracts.

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Bounding Pulse

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An increase in blood volume, a strong or normal amount of force or blood volume

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Thready Pulse

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Weak pulse, a barley perceptible force or blood volume

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Rhythm

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The regularity or equal spacing of all the beats of the pulse.

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Dysrhythmia

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A pulse with an irregular rhythm. Set of random irregular beats or a predictable pattern of irregular beats.

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Intermittent pulse

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Occurs when the heart occasionally skips a beat, not considered abnormal if it does not happen frequently.

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Apical

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A pulse rate is counted at the apex of the heart (the lowest portion of the heart) with the use of a stethoscope that is placed over the apex

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Pulse deficit

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Occurs when there are fewer pulses that there are heartbeats. Radical measurement is subtracted from the apical measurement

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Respiratory cycle

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One respiration consists of one expiration (exhalation), and one inspiration (inhalation)

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Bradypnea

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Abnormally slow breathing. Adult respiratory rate below 12.

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Tachypnea

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Abnormally rapid breathing. Adult respiratory rate above 40.

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Apnea

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The absence of breathing for a period lasting longer than 19 seconds.

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Eupnea

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Normal breathing.

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Hyperventilation

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Deep rapid respirations

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Hypoventilation

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Shallow slow respirations

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Cyanosis

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Bluish color caused by an increase of carbon dioxide and a decrease of oxygen in the blood

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Hypertension (HTN)

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High blood pressure

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Asymptomatic

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Without any symptoms

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Hypotension

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Low blood pressure

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Synscope

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Fainting

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Systolic blood pressure

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The highest pressure that as the left ventricle of the heart is contracting

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Diastostic blood pressure

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The lowest pressure level that occurs when the heart is relaxed (the ventricle is at rest)

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Pulse pressure

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The difference between systolic and diastolic reading

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Korotkoff sounds

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The sounds heard as the arterial wall distends under the compression of the blood pressure cuff.

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Orthostatic hypotension

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A lowered blood pressure, od a drop in blood pressure, that occurs when a patient changes positions from lying down to standing up

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Shygmomanometer

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Instrument used for measuring the pressure the blood exerts against the walls of the artery

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Monometer

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A scale that registers the actual pressure reading

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Palpatory method

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Feeling the radical pulse while the blood pressure cuff is deflating can be used to determine systolic pressure

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