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Nursing Assistant Medical Terms Flashcards

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Acute

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Sudden, Sharp

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Ambulatory

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Able to walk around

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Aphasia

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inability to express oneself properly due to loss of speech and/or loss of verbal comprehension.
- Expressive - cannot speak
- Receptive - cannot understand what is being said.

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Artery

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Large blood vessel carrying blood away from the heart to the tissues.

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Arthritis

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Inflammation of the joints and tissuesa

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Attitudes

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Feeling and opinions one has or shows toward situations, or other people.

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Coma

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An abnormal deep sleep like state where you cannot be awakened.

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Comatose

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used to describe the condition of a patient in a coma. Sometimes the word unconscious is used.

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Constipation

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Infrequent and difficult bowel evacuation

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Convulsion

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Violent, strong involuntary muscular contractions and relaxationl

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CVA/ Stroke

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Cerebral Vascular accident

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Cognition

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The ability to think, reason and make and remember decisions.

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Decubitus ulcer

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Ulcerated, worn away area on the skin. Also called a Pressure Sore.

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Deformity

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Distortion/ disfiguration

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Degeneration

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Breakdown, deterioration

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Defecate

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Bowel movement

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Dementia

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Progressive deterioration of mental functions

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Diarrhea

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Frequent watery bowel evacuation

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Edema

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Condition in which the body tissues contain an excessive amount of fluid.

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Ethics

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Standards of behavior; right and wrong

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Ethnicity

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Special customs, language, national origin and/ or heritage

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Exploitaition

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Illegal use of vulnerable adult’s property or personal items.

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Geriatric

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Study of the elderly

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Hemiplegia

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Paralysis of one side of the body (left/right)

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Hemorrhage

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Abnormal loss or discharge of blood

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Hypertension

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High Blood Pressure

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Hypotension

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Low Blood Pressure

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Impaction

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Tightly wedged stool

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Involuntary

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Uncontrollable

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Incontinent

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Involuntary evacuation of bowel or bladder

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Mental

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Related to the mind

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Myocardial infarction

A

Heart AttackN

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Pathogen

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Disease causing micro- organism;germ

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Paraplegia

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Paralysis of the lower half of the body - waist down relates to the body.

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Physical

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relates to the body

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Prosthesis

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Artificial or man-made part of organ (dentures, false eyes)

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Pulse

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Rhythmical throbbing of an artery showing how fast the heart is beating

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Reality Orientation

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Assisting residents to be aware of time, place and person

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Respiration

A

The act of breathing

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Shearing

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force of skin over a bone when the bone moves but the skin stays at point of contact.

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Sign

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Evidence of something abnormal in the body which is observed by the nursing team through seeing, listening, touching, or smelling.

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Standard Precautions

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Practices that reduce risk of disease transmission like wearing gloves or washing hands.

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Temperature

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Measurement of body heat

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Vein

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Small blood vessel carrying blood to the heart to be re-oxygenated

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Voluntary

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Contorollable

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Vold

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Ombudsman

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The person who handles complaints in nursing home

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Cyanosis

A

Bluish discoloration of the skin

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Bradycardia

A

slow heartbeat

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Dyspnea

A

difficulty breathing

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Hypertension

A

high blood pressure

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Colostomy

A

creating an opening in the abdominal wall to large intestine

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Podiatrist

A

Doctor caring for feet

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Abduction

A

moving away from the body

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Ambulate

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Hemiplegia

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when half the body is paralyzed

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Dysphagia

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difficulty swallowing

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Emesis

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Hospice

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supportive care for people in final stages of a terminal illness.

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Hypoxia

A

low levels of oxygen

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Aphasia

A

unable to speak

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Supine

A

lying on your back

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