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Terms & Abbreviations 2 Flashcards

1
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Affect

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Expression

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Delirium

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Sudden severe confusion

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Flight of ideas

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Excessive speech at a rapid rate that involves fragmented or unrelated ideas

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Lethargy

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Lack of energy & enthusiasm

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Perseveration

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The tendency to continue or repeat an act or activity after the cessation of the original stimulus

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Broca’s aphasia

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Loss of ability to produce language

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Delusion

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a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary

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Echolalia

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Echoing someone else

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Hallucination

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sensing things while awake that appear to be real, but instead have been created by the mind

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Neologism

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A new word, expression, or usage

ex. schizophrenia

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Wernicke’s aphasia

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Unable to understand language

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Analgesia

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Inability to feel pain

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13
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Chorea

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Abnormal involuntary mvmt

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14
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Cogwheel rigidity

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tension in a muscle which gives way in little jerks when the muscle is passively stretched

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15
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Fasciculation

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Muscle twitch

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Hemiparesis

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Weakness on one side of the body

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Paresthesias

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burning, prickling, itching, or tingling, with no apparent physical cause

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Spasticity

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Stiff or rigid mucles

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19
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Xanthochromia

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Yellow CSF

Usually means subarachnoid hemorrhage

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20
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Somatiform

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Sx in a Pts brain w/ no physical illness

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21
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Ataxia

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uncoordinated mvmt

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22
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Bradykinesia

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Slowness of mvmts & reflexes

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Clonus

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series of involuntary, rhythmic, muscular contractions and relaxations

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Dystonia

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involuntary muscle contractions that cause slow repetitive movements or abnormal postures

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Hemiplegia

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paralysis of the arm, leg, and trunk on the same side of the body

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Paraplegia

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Paralysis of lower extremities

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27
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Postictal

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AMS after a seizure

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Pleocytosis

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presence of a greater than normal number of cells in CSF

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Psychosomatic

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caused or aggravated by a mental factor such as internal conflict or stress

30
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SLR

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straight leg raising

31
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GAD

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

32
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Annular

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Ring-shaped

33
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Beau’s lines

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Horizontal lines across the nail

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Eccrine

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Sweat gland

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Hyperkeratosis

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Thickening of stratum corneum

36
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Lentigines

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Benign pigmented spot on the skin

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Nits

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Head lice eggs

38
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Splinter hemorrhage

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Blood under the nails

39
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Vellus

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Short, fine hair

40
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Apocrine glands

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Sweat glands under hair follices

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Cherry angioma

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Bright red spot on skin

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Confluent

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Flowing together

43
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Hirsutism

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Excess hairiness on women

44
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Intertriginous

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2 areas of skin may rub together

45
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Lunula

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white area of the nail

46
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Paronychia

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skin infection around the nails

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Serpiginous

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Having a wavy margin

48
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Fibrocystic breast changes

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Painful, lumpy breasts

49
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Fibroadenoma

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noncancerous breast tumor

50
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Peau d’orange sign

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A swollen pitted skin surface overlying carcinoma of the breast

51
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Adnexa

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ovaries & fallopian tubes

52
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Bartholin’s glands

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glands in the vag that secrete fluid

53
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Cystocele

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the tough fibrous wall between a woman’s bladder and her vagina (the pubocervical fascia) is torn

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Dyspareunia

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Painful intercourse

55
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Introitus

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Vaginal opening

56
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Perineum

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gooch

57
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Mucopurulent cervicitis

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infection of cervix

58
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Rectocele

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bulging of the front wall of the rectum into the back wall of the vagina

59
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Hypospadius

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Opening of urethra is on underside of the penis

60
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Paraphimosis

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the foreskin of an uncircumcised male cannot be pulled back over the head of the penis

61
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Prepuce

A

foreskin

62
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Spermatocele

A

benign cystic accumulation of sperm that arises from the head of the epididymis

63
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Varicocele

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widening of the spermaticord

64
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Hydrocele

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fluid-filled sack in the scrotum

65
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Orchitis

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inflammation of the testes

66
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Smegma

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secretion of sebaceous gland

67
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Nikolsky sign

A

Putting pressure on blister causes further separation of dermis

68
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Macerated

A

pale-white & edamatous

pruney fingers

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