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Medical Terminology Flashcards

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Localized collection of pus on any part of the body

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Abscess

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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.

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Albumin

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When oxygenated blood does not flow freely through the vessels to the tissue

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Altered Tissue Perfusion

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Situated at or directed toward the front of something

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Anterior

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Programmed cell death ; a process including coagulative necrosis and shrinkage

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Apoptosis

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Lack of perfusion from the arteries

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Aterial Insufficiency

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Disintegration of tissue or of cells by the body’s own mechanisms

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Autolysis

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Without vascularization

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Avascular

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The main supportive protein of skin, tendon, bone, cartilage, and connective tissue.

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Collagen

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Removal of devitalized tissue and foreign matter from a wound.

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Debridement

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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.

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Autolytic Debridement

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Method of debridement; the topical application of proteolytic substances to break down devitalized tissue.

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Enzymatic (Chemical) Debridement

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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.

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Mechanical Debridement

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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.

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Sharp Debridement

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The sensitive vascular inner mesodermic layer of the skin.

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Dermis

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To split along a natural line

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Dehisce

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17
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To divest of a covering

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Denude

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18
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Another term for Necrotic Tissue

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Devitalized Tissue

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A disease characterized by an inability to process sugars in the diet due to a decrease in or total absence of insulin production.

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Diabetes.

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20
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A process of filtering and removing waste products from the bloodstream.

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Dialysis

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21
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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.

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Hemodialysis.

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Type of dialysis that the cleansing occurs inside the body. Dialysis fluid is injected into the body and wastes are filtered.

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Peritoneal dialysis

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23
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Means remote, or farther from any point of reference.

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Distal

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24
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The process of abnormally large amounts of fluid in the interstitial space.

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Edema

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25
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Any of the ions that in a biological fluid regulate or affect most metabolic processes used especially in biology and chemistry.

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Electrolytes

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26
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The outer nonsensitive and nonvascular layer of the skin.

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Epidermis

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27
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Regeneration of the epidermis across wound surface.

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Epithelialization

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28
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Redness of the skin surface produced by vasodilatation.

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Erythema

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29
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Avascular tissue found in a wound that is characterized by a dark and leathery appearance.

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Eschar

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30
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The cause or origin of a disease or disorder as determined by medical diagnosis.

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Etiology

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31
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Superficial traumatic abrasions and scratches which remove some of the skin substance.

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Excoriation

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32
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Process of a waste product (i.e. urine, feces) eliminated from the body.

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Excretion

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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.

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Exudate

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34
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A sheet or band of fibrous tissue that lies deep below the skin or encloses muscles and various organs of the body.

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Fascia

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35
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Any cell or corpuscle from which connective tissue is developed.

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Fibroblast

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36
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An insoluble protein that is essential to clotting of blood, formed from fibrinogen by action of thrombin.

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Fibrin

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37
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A protein in the blood plasma that is essential for the coagulation of blood and is converted to fibrin by thrombin and ionized calcium.

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Fibrinogen

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38
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Tissue destruction extending through the dermis to involve the subcutaneous layer and possible muscle/bone.

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Full Thickness Tissue Loss

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39
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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.

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Granulation Tissue

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40
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Proteins that affect proliferation, movement, maturation, and biosynthetic activity of cells.

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Growth Factors

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41
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The stopping of bleeding or blood flow through a blood vessel or organ. In would healing, this is the first phase.

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Hemostasis

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42
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The state of balance in the internal environment of the body achieved by various control mechanisms.

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Homeostasis

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43
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The introduction of additional fluid into the body.

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Hydration

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44
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Attracting Moisture

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Hydrophilic

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Repelling Moisture

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Hydrophobic

46
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A treatment in which the patient is placed in a chamber and breathes oxygen at higher that atmospheric pressure

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HBO - Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

47
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Something that impedes; a hindrance or an obstruction

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Impediment

48
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Inability to control evacuative functions, such as defecation or urination

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Incontinence

49
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The establishment of a pathogen in its host after invasion

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Infection

50
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a part of the body located below another.

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Inferior

51
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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.

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Inflammation

52
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A deficiency of blood due to functional constriction or obstruction of a blood vessel to a part.

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Ischemia

53
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Means “on the side”

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Lateral

54
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Softening of tissue by soaking in fluids

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Maceration

55
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The visible contraction of wound edges under negative pressure.

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Macrostrain

56
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Ankle bone

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Malleolus

57
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Means “toward the middle”

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Medial

58
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the chemical changes in living cells by which energy is provided for vital processes and activities and new materials is assimilated.

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Metabolism

59
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The deformation of tissue at the cellular level as cells stretched with V.A.C. GranuFoam under negative pressure.

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Microdeformation

60
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A unit of measurement of strain. This equals the strain that produces a deformation of one part per million.

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Microstrain

61
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An organism of microscopic size.

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Microorganism

62
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avascualar tissue that is dead or devitalized.

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Necrotic tissue

63
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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.

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Neuropathy

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Loss of epidermis and possible partial loss of dermis. Does not extend into the subcutaneous fat or below.

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Partial thickness tissue loss

65
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The passage of fluid (such as blood) through a specific organ or area of the body.

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Perfusion

66
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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.

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Peristalsis

67
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Pertaining to the sole of the foot.

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Plantar

68
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Directed toward or situated at the back; opposite of anterior.

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Posterior

69
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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.

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Pressure Ulcer

70
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A method of wound closure using sutures, staples, or surgical bond to approximate wound edges.

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Primary Intention

71
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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.

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Proliferation

72
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The body lying face down

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Prone

73
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Nearest point of reference

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Proximal

74
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Exudate consisting of or containing pus

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Purulence

75
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Thick fluid containing leukocytes, bacteria, and cell debris; may be indicative of infection.

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Pus

76
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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).

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Remodeling

77
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Triangular bone at the base of the spine.

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Sacrum

78
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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.

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Secondary Intention

79
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Found in chronic wounds, the are old cells that are unresponsive and unable to divide

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Senescent Cells

80
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A collection of serum/plasma within a wound

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Seroma

81
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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.

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Slough

82
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Situated in a higher position on the body, closer to the head and farther from the feet.

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Superior

83
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a body lying face up on the back

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Supine

84
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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.

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Tertiary Intention

85
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A local defect, or excavation of the surface, or an organ or tissue produced by sloughing of necrotic inflammatory tissue.

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Ulcer

86
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Pertaining to vessels, particularly blood vessels

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Vascular

87
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Lack of perfusion from the veins

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Venous Insufficiency

88
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The pooling of venous blood in a particular region which, in the legs results in edema, hyperpigmentation and possibly ulceration.

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Venous stasis

89
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The management of the wound to accelerate endogenous healing or to facilitate the effectiveness of other therapeutic measures.

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Wound Bed Preparation

90
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Rim or border of wound

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Wound Margin

91
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the study of cells and tissue sections on the microscopic level

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Histology

92
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to put something together, to make something out of different parts. The artificial building of a chemical compound.

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Synthesize

93
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the process by which less specialized cell become more specialized cell type.

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Differentiate

94
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any observed quality of an organism, such as morphology, development, or behavior.

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Phenotypes

95
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the insoluble protein formed from fibrinogen by the proteolytic action of thrombin during normal clotting of blood.

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Fibrin Clot

96
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alive, able to reproduce

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viable

97
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drawn out at length

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elongate

98
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inactive

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Quiescent

99
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a phenotype specifically for tissue growth

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proliferative phenotype

100
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a procedure where a property or concentration of an analyte is measured

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Assays

101
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protected by trademark, patent, or copyright

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propietary

102
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biological activity of physical stresses that occur in body

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biomechanical

103
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the chemical reactions and processes in the body

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biochemical

104
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the growth and repeated production of new cells, tissues, and organs

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proliferation

105
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a physiological process involving the growth of new blood vessels from pre existing

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Angiogenesis

106
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A group in a study who recieves the standard treatment/care or a placebo.

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Control Group

107
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Unites or combines different parts

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Manifold

108
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The process of technique of making body tissue grow in a culture medium outside the organism

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Tissue Culture

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