EXAM 2 Terms Flashcards
A drooping upper eyelid
Ptosis
A vision condition in which the eyes make repetitive, uncontrolled movements. The movements often result in reduced vision and depth perception and can affect balance and coordination. these involuntary eye movements can occur side to side, up and down or in a circular pattern.
Nystagmus
Refers to your eyes ability to see things that are both close up and far away. If your pupils are non reactive it means they don’t adjust when you try to shift your focus to an object in the distance or near your face.
pupil accommodation
The feeling of sluggish and apathetic
Lethargic
Stunned or confused and slow to react ( as from blows or drunkenness or exhaustion).
Stuporous
In a state of deep unconsciousness for a prolonged or indefinite period, especially as a result of severe injury illness.
Comatose
A neurological scale which aims to give a reliable and objective way of recording the state of a person’s consciousness for initial as well as subsequent assessment.
Glasgow Coma Scale
An abnormal posturing in which is stiff with bent arms, clenched fists, and legs held out straight. The arms are bent in toward the body and the wrists and fingers are bent and held on the chest. It is a sign of severe damage in the brain.
Decorticate posturing
An abnormal body posture that involves the arms and legs being held straight out, the toes being pointed downward, and the head and neck being arched backward. The muscles are tightened and held rigidly. This is a result of severe damage to the brain.
Decerebrate posturing
Pupils equal, round and reactive to light and accommodation is a convenient but incomplete description of pupilomotor function.
PERRLA
A medical term for difficulty swallowing.
Dysphagia
Loss of ability to understand or express speech caused by brain damage.
Aphasia
The perception of 2 images of a single object. IT can be monocular or binocular.
Diplopia
The phrase of the heartbeat when the heart muscle contracts and pumps blood from the chambers into the arteries.
Systole
The phase of the heartbeat when the heart muscle relaxes and allows the chambers fill with blood.
Diastole
Refers to the ability for self-concentration, especially of the muscles or similar active biological tissue.
Contractility
The volume of blood in milliliters ejected from the each ventricle due to the contraction of the heart muscle which compresses these ventricles. SV is the difference between end diastolic volume and end systolic volume.
Stroke volume
The amount of blood the heart pumps through the circulatory system in a minute.
Cardiac Output
A record or display of a person’s heartbeat produced by electrocardiography.
Electrocardiogram
A problem with the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat. The heartbeat can beat too fast, too slowly, or with an irregular rhythm.
Arrhythmia
A heart rhythm that is abnormal appearing in three or four sounds.
Gallop
An unusual sound heard between heartbeats. Sometimes sounds like a whopping or swishing noise.
Murmur
A medical condition that occurs when a blood clot forms in a deep vein.
DVT
Refers to swelling that generally occurs in one of your arms or legs. Sometimes both arms or legs can swell.
Lymphedema
An accumulation of an excessive amount of watery fluid in cells, tosses, or body cavities.
Edema
Yellow in the eyes
Jaundice
High pitched sounds produced by narrowed airways
Wheezes
Sounds that resemble snoring
Ronchii
Wheeze like sound heard when a person breathes
Stridor
Small clicking, bubbling or rattling sounds in the lungs
Rales
Any sounds that are not normal
Adventitious sounds
Striking the tuning fork and placing it against the middle of your forehead
Weber’s Test
conducted by placing a tuning fork on the mastoid bone and then adjacent to the outer ear
Rinne Test
Cognitive abilities, abstract reasoning, judging, visual, perceptual and constructional ability.
Slums Dementia and Alzheimer’s Test Exam
A self assessment tool for patients with addiction
CAGE Self Assessment Tool
Function is to smell not usually tested.
Olfactory
Function is visual acuity
Optic
Opening of eyelids and eye movement
Oculomotor
Eye movement
Trochlear
Facial Sensation, chewing movements
Trigeminal
Function hearing and balance
Auditory vestibulocochlear
Function eye movement lateral
Abducens
Taste on the posterior third of the tongue
Glossopharyngeal
Uvula and swallowing
Vagus
Shoulder shrug
Accessory
Tongue movement
hypoglassal
prepares the body for intense physical activity fight or flight
Sympathetic Nervous system
Relaxes the body and inhibits or slows many high energy functions rest and digest
Parasympathetic Nervous system
Headache, unilateral limb, weakness, generalized dizziness or vertigo, blurred vision paresthesia
Subjective data collection
LOC, Speech patterns, Pupillary response, abnormal posturing, test function of CNs III-VIII, gait and balance DTR
Objective
It is the complete stopping of all brain function and cannot be reversed.
Brain Death
