Medical Terminology Flashcards
Localized collection of pus on any part of the body
Abscess
A class of water soluble proteins than can be coagulated by heat & precipitated by strong acids and are found in egg white, blood serum, milk, and many other animal and plant juices and tissues.
Albumin
When oxygenated blood does not flow freely through the vessels to the tissue
Altered Tissue Perfusion
Situated at or directed toward the front of something
Anterior
Programmed cell death ; a process including coagulative necrosis and shrinkage
Apoptosis
Lack of perfusion from the arteries
Aterial Insufficiency
Disintegration of tissue or of cells by the body’s own mechanisms
Autolysis
Without vascularization
Avascular
The main supportive protein of skin, tendon, bone, cartilage, and connective tissue.
Collagen
Removal of devitalized tissue and foreign matter from a wound.
Debridement
Method of debridement; use of synthetic dressings to cover a wound and allow eschar to self digest by the action of enzymes present in wound fluids.
Autolytic Debridement
Method of debridement; the topical application of proteolytic substances to break down devitalized tissue.
Enzymatic (Chemical) Debridement
Method of debridement; removal of foreign material and devitalized or contaminated tissue from a wound by physical forces rather than by chemical or natural forces. Examples: Wet-to-Dry dressings, Wound irrigation, whirlpool.
Mechanical Debridement
Method of debridement; removal of foreign material or devitalized tissue by a sharp instrument such as a scalpel. Laser debridement is also considered this type.
Sharp Debridement
The sensitive vascular inner mesodermic layer of the skin.
Dermis
To split along a natural line
Dehisce
To divest of a covering
Denude
Another term for Necrotic Tissue
Devitalized Tissue
A disease characterized by an inability to process sugars in the diet due to a decrease in or total absence of insulin production.
Diabetes.
A process of filtering and removing waste products from the bloodstream.
Dialysis
Type of dialysis that the blood flows out of the body into a machine that filters waste products and routes the cleansed blood back into the body.
Hemodialysis.
Type of dialysis that the cleansing occurs inside the body. Dialysis fluid is injected into the body and wastes are filtered.
Peritoneal dialysis
Means remote, or farther from any point of reference.
Distal
The process of abnormally large amounts of fluid in the interstitial space.
Edema
Any of the ions that in a biological fluid regulate or affect most metabolic processes used especially in biology and chemistry.
Electrolytes
The outer nonsensitive and nonvascular layer of the skin.
Epidermis
Regeneration of the epidermis across wound surface.
Epithelialization
Redness of the skin surface produced by vasodilatation.
Erythema
Avascular tissue found in a wound that is characterized by a dark and leathery appearance.
Eschar
The cause or origin of a disease or disorder as determined by medical diagnosis.
Etiology
Superficial traumatic abrasions and scratches which remove some of the skin substance.
Excoriation
Process of a waste product (i.e. urine, feces) eliminated from the body.
Excretion
A material, such as fluid, cells, or cell debris, which has escaped from the blood vessels and has been deposited in tissue surfaces, usually as a result of inflammation or injury. Usually high in protein and WBC.
Exudate
A sheet or band of fibrous tissue that lies deep below the skin or encloses muscles and various organs of the body.
Fascia
Any cell or corpuscle from which connective tissue is developed.
Fibroblast
An insoluble protein that is essential to clotting of blood, formed from fibrinogen by action of thrombin.
Fibrin
A protein in the blood plasma that is essential for the coagulation of blood and is converted to fibrin by thrombin and ionized calcium.
Fibrinogen
Tissue destruction extending through the dermis to involve the subcutaneous layer and possible muscle/bone.
Full Thickness Tissue Loss
The pink/red, moist tissue that contains new blood vessels, collagen, fibroblasts, and inflammatory cells, which fills an open, previously deep wound when it starts to heal.
Granulation Tissue
Proteins that affect proliferation, movement, maturation, and biosynthetic activity of cells.
Growth Factors
The stopping of bleeding or blood flow through a blood vessel or organ. In would healing, this is the first phase.
Hemostasis
The state of balance in the internal environment of the body achieved by various control mechanisms.
Homeostasis
The introduction of additional fluid into the body.
Hydration
Attracting Moisture
Hydrophilic
Repelling Moisture
Hydrophobic
A treatment in which the patient is placed in a chamber and breathes oxygen at higher that atmospheric pressure
HBO - Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Something that impedes; a hindrance or an obstruction
Impediment
Inability to control evacuative functions, such as defecation or urination
Incontinence
The establishment of a pathogen in its host after invasion
Infection
a part of the body located below another.
Inferior
A protective tissue response to injury or destruction of tissues, which serves to destroy, dilute, or wall off both the injurious agent and injured tissues.
Inflammation
A deficiency of blood due to functional constriction or obstruction of a blood vessel to a part.
Ischemia
Means “on the side”
Lateral
Softening of tissue by soaking in fluids
Maceration
The visible contraction of wound edges under negative pressure.
Macrostrain
Ankle bone
Malleolus
Means “toward the middle”
Medial
the chemical changes in living cells by which energy is provided for vital processes and activities and new materials is assimilated.
Metabolism
The deformation of tissue at the cellular level as cells stretched with V.A.C. GranuFoam under negative pressure.
Microdeformation
A unit of measurement of strain. This equals the strain that produces a deformation of one part per million.
Microstrain
An organism of microscopic size.
Microorganism
avascualar tissue that is dead or devitalized.
Necrotic tissue
a condition affecting the nerves supplying the arms and legs. Typically, the feet and hands are involved first. If sensory nerves are involved, numbness, tingline, and pain or prominent, and if motor nerves are involved, the patient experiences weakness.
Neuropathy
Loss of epidermis and possible partial loss of dermis. Does not extend into the subcutaneous fat or below.
Partial thickness tissue loss
The passage of fluid (such as blood) through a specific organ or area of the body.
Perfusion
A sequence of muscle contractions that progressively squeeze one small section of the digestive tract and then the next to push food along the tract.
Peristalsis
Pertaining to the sole of the foot.
Plantar
Directed toward or situated at the back; opposite of anterior.
Posterior
is an open wound that forms whenever prolonged pressure is applied to skin covering bony outcrops of the body. Patients who are bedridden are at risk for this.
Pressure Ulcer
A method of wound closure using sutures, staples, or surgical bond to approximate wound edges.
Primary Intention
The growth and reproduction of similar cells. In wounds, this is the third phase of wound characterized by the presence of granulation tissue, wound edge contraction, and epitheliazation.
Proliferation
The body lying face down
Prone
Nearest point of reference
Proximal
Exudate consisting of or containing pus
Purulence
Thick fluid containing leukocytes, bacteria, and cell debris; may be indicative of infection.
Pus
The final differentiation process in biological systems, such as attainment of total functional capability by a cell, a tissue, or an organ. In wound healing, this is the fourth phase of healing and is seen as scar formation (maturation).
Remodeling
Triangular bone at the base of the spine.
Sacrum
A method of wound closure used on large deficit wounds that cannot be closed with sutures, this method leaves the wound open to heal from the inside out.
Secondary Intention
Found in chronic wounds, the are old cells that are unresponsive and unable to divide
Senescent Cells
A collection of serum/plasma within a wound
Seroma
Necrotic (dead) tissue in the process of separating from viable portions of the body.In wounds, this tissue is usually yellow or creamy in color, moist, and stringy.
Slough
Situated in a higher position on the body, closer to the head and farther from the feet.
Superior
a body lying face up on the back
Supine
A method of wound closure used on contaminated or dirty wounds leaving them open for a short period of time for cleansing and disinfecting and then closed with sutures, staples, or surgical bond.
Tertiary Intention
A local defect, or excavation of the surface, or an organ or tissue produced by sloughing of necrotic inflammatory tissue.
Ulcer
Pertaining to vessels, particularly blood vessels
Vascular
Lack of perfusion from the veins
Venous Insufficiency
The pooling of venous blood in a particular region which, in the legs results in edema, hyperpigmentation and possibly ulceration.
Venous stasis
The management of the wound to accelerate endogenous healing or to facilitate the effectiveness of other therapeutic measures.
Wound Bed Preparation
Rim or border of wound
Wound Margin
the study of cells and tissue sections on the microscopic level
Histology
to put something together, to make something out of different parts. The artificial building of a chemical compound.
Synthesize
the process by which less specialized cell become more specialized cell type.
Differentiate
any observed quality of an organism, such as morphology, development, or behavior.
Phenotypes
the insoluble protein formed from fibrinogen by the proteolytic action of thrombin during normal clotting of blood.
Fibrin Clot
alive, able to reproduce
viable
drawn out at length
elongate
inactive
Quiescent
a phenotype specifically for tissue growth
proliferative phenotype
a procedure where a property or concentration of an analyte is measured
Assays
protected by trademark, patent, or copyright
propietary
biological activity of physical stresses that occur in body
biomechanical
the chemical reactions and processes in the body
biochemical
the growth and repeated production of new cells, tissues, and organs
proliferation
a physiological process involving the growth of new blood vessels from pre existing
Angiogenesis
A group in a study who recieves the standard treatment/care or a placebo.
Control Group
Unites or combines different parts
Manifold
The process of technique of making body tissue grow in a culture medium outside the organism
Tissue Culture
