Glossary Flashcards
What is it called to soak up or take in?
Absorb
What is the passage of substances across and into tissues?
Absorption
What is the willful infliction of injury, unreasonable confinement, intimidation, or punishment with resulting physics harm, pain, or mental anguish?
Abuse
What is the process of adjusting the eyes for near or far vision?
Accommodation
What is a chemical in the body tissues helps control activity between the muscles and the nervous system?
Acetylcholine
What is a uncontrollable dependence on a chemical substance, habit, or practice?
Addiction
What are activities not included in 172 NAC 95(006) and include PRN, additional routes and participation in monitoring?
Additional Activites
What is a substance added to a prescription medication to assist in the action of the main ingredient?
Adjuvant
What is it pertaining to the glands located on top of each kidney?
Adrenal
What is a harmful, unintended effect of an appropriately administered drug?
Adverse reactions
What are nebulized particles suspended in a gas or air?
Aerosol
What is restlessness, inability to sit still?
Akathesia
What is a severely diminished motor and psychic activity?
Akinesia
What is the body’s immune system over-response to a foreign substance such as a food or drug?
Allergic reaction
What is a hypersensitive reaction to a common substance?
Allergic
What are tiny air sacs in the lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged between the air and the blood?
Alveoli
What is a progressive mental deterioration that involves plaque formation in areas of the brain?
Alzheimer’s disease
What is a gas produced by decomposing organic material. Used as a detergent and as an emulsifier?
Ammonia
What is a small sterile glass container that contains a single dose of medication?
Ampule
What is a life threatening allergic reaction?
Anaphylactic shock
What is a decrease in blood levels or blood components?
Anemia
What is chest pain caused by a lack of oxygenated blood to the heart muscle?
Angina pectoris
What is it to inhibit or to work opposite of?
Antagonistic
What is the space in front of the elbow?
Antecubital space
What is the opening at the lower end of the digestive tract through which feces is expelled?
Anus
What is the largest artery in the body?
Aorta
What is the absence or suppression of emotion?
Apathy
What is the abnormality in language function as a result of damage to the brain in specific areas?
Aphasia
What is the heart beat heard with a stethoscope placed on the chest wall?
Apical
What is a pharmacist or pharmacy measure?
Apothecary
What is inadequate blood flow in the arteries?
Arterial insufficiency
What is the disorder involving thickening and calcification of the walls of the artery resulting in a decreased blood supply?
Arteriosclerosis
What are the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart?
Arteries
What is the taking of foreign matter into the lungs with the respiratory current?
Aspiration
What is the disorder involving plaques of cholesterol and lipids lining the inner layers of the walls of arteries?
Atherosclerosis
What are the upper chambers of the heart?
Atria
What is a channel that connects the external ear to the ear drum?
Auditory canal
What is the part of the nervous system that regulates the involuntary functions of the body?
Autonomic nervous system
What is the hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; armpit?
Axilla/Axillary
What is the microorganism that may cause disease?
Bacteria
What is the amount of energy used by a fasting, resting person to maintain vital functions?
Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
What is the amount of energy used by a fasting, resting person to maintain vital functions?
Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
What is the microorganism that may cause disease?
Bacteria
What is the hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; armpit?
Axilla/Axillary
What is the part of the nervous system that regulates the involuntary functions of the body?
Autonomic nervous system
What is a channel that connects the external ear to the ear drum?
Auditory canal
What are the upper chambers of the heart?
Atria
What is the disorder involving plaques of cholesterol and lipids lining the inner layers of the walls of arteries?
Atherosclerosis
What is the taking of foreign matter into the lungs with the respiratory current?
Aspiration
What are the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart?
Arteries
