Vocab Flashcards
Abstain
To voluntary refrain from something
Abrupt
Sudden and possibly unexpected
Accolade
Tribute or honor
Accountable
To be responsible
Acute
Sudden, intense
The nurse administered they prescribe pain medication to the patient who is experiencing acute pain after surgery
Adverse
Undesired, possibly harmful
Vomiting is an adverse effect of many medications
Aegis
Control, protection
Unit staffing decisions are under aegis of nursing manager
Aggregate
A some total of many things
Aggrieved
Hurt or angry
Ambivalent
Uncertain, having contradictory feelings
After learning that she had breast cancer the patient was ambivalent about having a mastectomy.
Anachronism
A thing of the past
My disease is anachronism
Antidote
Cure or remedy
I need an antidote for this headache
Alleviate
Reduce
The medicine is alleviating my pain
Apply
To place on, put on or to spread
Assent
To get consent, to agree
Audible
Able to be heard.
The respiratory therapist noticed the patients out of the wheezing as a symptom of the patients asthma.
Bacteria
Single – Cell, microscopic organism
Barrage
Bombardment, onslaught (contagious attack)
This staph disease is so barrage, I keep getting butt pimples.
Bearing
Manner, direction,or influence
Benign
Not harmful
Bilateral
Present on two sides
Callous
Heartless, Carol, or Pitiless
Cardiac
Of or relating to the heart
Cataract
Medical condition in which the lens of the eye becomes progressively overpaid, resulting and blurred vision.
Cavity
An opening or empty area
Cease
Come to an end or bring to an end
Chronology
Order of events as they occurred, timeline
Compensatory
Offsetting (amount that distinguishes or balances the effect of a contrary one)or making up for something. Best described as corrective
Concave
Rounded inward.
Example – red blood cells
Concise
Brief, to the point
Consistency
Degree of viscosity, how thick or thin a fluid is in relation to how it flows. Texture
Constrict
To drive together or become smaller.
Example – blood vessels constrict when they are in a cold environment.
Contingent
Depend/reliant
Contraindication
A reason something is not advisable or should not be done
Convoluted
To be complex.
Example – her symptoms were very consulted: back pain, headache and severe nosebleed.
Convulsive
Having a causing convulsions – violent shaking of the body
example – epilepsy
Covert
I Hidden or concealed.
Example – her bruises or Coovert under her clothes.
Cursory
Quick, perfunctory, not thorough
Example – run a cursory examination on the adult.
Defecate
Expel feces
Deficit
A deficiency or lack of something
Delusional
Confused or mistaken
Depresse
Press downward
Depth
Downward measurement from a service
Desiccated
Dried or weathered. Example – her faces were desiccated
Deteriorating
Worsening
Device
Tool or piece of equipment
Diagnosis
Identification of an injury or disease
Dilate
To enlarge or expand
Dilute
To make a liquid less concentrated
Discrete
Distinct, separate
example – her bruises were so discrete, scattered all around her body
Distal
Distinct; away from the center – body
Distended
Enlarged or expanded from pressure.
Example – her stomach looked like a balloon it was distended .
Docile
Easily handled, Tame I.e. Not dangerous or frightened by people.
Example – the little girl was docile, very gullible.
Dysfunction
Repaired or a normal functioning
Earthly
Worldly or possible
Empathy
Ability to share what others are feeling, understanding the feelings of others
Endogenerous
Developing internally of body. Example Dash cells are Endogenerous
Eradicate
To destroy completely. Example – everyone wants to eradicate cancer
Equilibrium
Balance
Ethereal
Being extremely delicate or refined, ghostly, or eerie
Etiology
The origin or cause of a disease or condition
Euphemism
In an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive.
Example I’m sorry but your father passed away
Euphoric
Confident
example – I am euphoric about this exam
Exacerbate
To make worse or more severe
Exogenous
Developing externally a body example hair is exogenous
Expand
To increase in size or amount
Expectorate
To cover up discharge from the lines through the mouth – spit
Exposure
To come in contact
Extension
Lengthening; unbending a joint
External
Located outside the body
Painstaking
Done with employing great care
