Exam #3

Question 0

Kussmaul’s respirations

Answer 0

Labored breathing

Question 1

Radiation

Answer 1

The diffusion or dissemination of heat by electromagnetic waves

Question 2

Auscultation

Answer 2

Listening to sounds

Question 3

Korotkoff’s sounds

Answer 3

Lubb dubb

Question 4

Cheyne-Stokes respirations

Answer 4

Slow and shallow to fast deep restorations

Question 5

Pulse pressure

Answer 5

The difference between systolic and diastolic reading

Question 6

Stertorous breathing

Answer 6

Air passing through secretions in airway, obstruction near the glottis causes a hissing, crowing sound

Question 7

Orthopnea

Answer 7

Difficult breathing when supine

Question 8

Hypothalamus

Answer 8

Brain’s heat regulating center, controls body temperature by controlling blood temperature

Question 9

How long do you wait after person eats to take the temperature?

Answer 9

15 minutes

Question 10

Afebrile

Answer 10

Without fever

Question 11

Pyrexia

Answer 11

Fever, sign of a disorder in the body

Question 12

Intermittent fever

Answer 12

Alternates between fever and normal or subnormal reading

Question 13

Remittant fever

Answer 13

Rises several degrees above normal and returns to normal or near normal

Question 14

Relapsing fever

Answer 14

Fever returns to normal for at least a day, then occurs again

Question 15

Lysis

Answer 15

Elevated temperature gradually returns to normal

Question 16

Doppler device

Answer 16

Used to obtain peripheral pulses, fetal heart rate and weak pulses

Question 17

Apical pulse

Answer 17

Always taking for children under two years of age

Question 18

Pulse deficit

Answer 18

The difference between apical and radial measurements