clinical terms Flashcards
“ferocious appetite”
hyperphagia
“feeling heart beating very fast”
palpitations
what is considered tachycardia?
- 20bpm above patient baseline
- 100bpm generally for adults
“no mences”
amenorrhea
how can you divide amenorrhea
primary
- woman that has never had mences before (15 years and above)
secondary
- attained menarche (first onset of period), but period stopped
what is the “first onset of period” known as?
menarche
catabolic vs anabolic
catabolic: weight loss
anabolic: weight gain
what causes weight loss?
INTENTIONAL
1. dieting
2. medications, drugs
UNINTENTIONAL
1. cancer
2. TB
3. hyperthyrodism
4. obstruction
5. malabsorption
6. IBD
7. diabeties type 1 (DM) –> lack of insulin, which is a anabolic hormone
type 1 vs 2 diabeties
type 1:
immune system attacks B cells in pancreas
= pancreas does not make insulin
type 2:
pancreas makes less insulin
= body resistant to insulin
what is “blister like swelling of the conjunctiva”?
chemosis
myasthenia gravis
- eyelid retraction
- lidlag
- eyelid edema
- no chemosis
how to check for proximal myopathy (muscle weakness of the girdles)?
- 20 squats
OR
- push against my hand
what if the mass moves with swallowing in the thyroid?
then it is not a lymph node
if mass moves superiorly when sticking out the tongue, it is a thyroglossal mass
6 eye signs of thyroid eye disease
- visibility of sclera at bottom eyelid
- lid retraction
- lid lag –> eyelid does not move with eyeball
- opthalmoplegia –> eyeball movements are affected
- proptosis –> eyeball is visible from the top or side of the head
- chemosis –> sclera is red becuase of hypervascular process
how are the eyes linked to the thyroid?
paraoptical fibroblast expres TSH
= activating antibodies from graves result in proliferation of fibroblasts
= activation of adipocytes
