Vocabulary Flashcards
Anastomosis
The union of parts or branches (streams, blood, vessels, or leaf veins) so as to intercommunicate or interconnect.
(Animal store by Moses- brings two of each together)
Debridement
Surgical removal of lacerated , devitalized, or contaminated tissue. (Bride makes a man’s life cleaned up of all things bad)
Edema
An abnormal infiltration and excess accumulation of serous fluid in connective tissue or in a serous cavity ( ed and ema both have huge legs and feet that slosh when they walk which is a serious ( serous) problem.
Eschar
Dead matter that is cast off from the surface of the skin, especially after a burn. The texture is hard, black or brown, and leathery in texture.
(bedsores) (Esther’s chair has black and brown skin flakes on her chair)
Exudate
A fluid with a high content of protein and cellular debris that has escaped from blood vessels and has been deposited in tissues or on tissue surfaces. (Pus) (I toss my cell phone and protein bar on an exit sign and blood vessels drips on to tissues on the ground )
Fascia
A sheet of connective tissue covering or binding together body structures. ( such as muscles) ( fasctends together tissues to your body )
Fistula
An abnormal passage that leads from an abscess or hollow organ or part to the body surface, or from one hollow organ to part to another and that may be surgically created to permit passage of fluids or secretion ( a fist punch into the body that creates a hollow passage of fluid or secretion to you ass)
Granulation tissue
A new connective tissue and microscopic blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process. ( grant you elation of wound curing )
Necrosis
Death of cells through injury or disease, especially in a localized area of a tissue or organ. ( Crowbar your sister when she’s playing an organ, you hit her cell phone and make her cry into tissue that nearby (local)
Osteomyelitis
An infectious usually painful inflammatory disease of bone that is often of bacterial origin and may result in death of bone tissue. ( my oyster got bacteria on it , lit on fire and now bone is infected )
Peri-wound
Tissue surrounding a wound. Limited to 4 cm outside the wound . ( Paris, France surrendered when surrounded by all 4 sides)
Pressure wounds
Localized damage to the skin and/ or underlying tissue that usually occur over a bony prominence as a result of usually long-term pressure, or pressure in combination with shear friction. ( the press (media) put pressure on us and cause damage over the long term)
Slough
Nonviable tissue on the wound bed surface that is soft, mucinous, or stringy material frequently colonized by multispecies bacterial biofilms. (I get a slow cough from stringy soft mucous)
Etiology
The cause or causes of disease or abnormal condition
Biofilm
A microbial colony encased in a polysaccharide matrix which can become attached to a wound surface. (A biopic Movie about a colony of potatoes sack riders wounding their surfaces in the matrix )
Undermining
Erosion of the tissue underneath the skin. A separating of the wound edges from the healthy tissues, creating a pocket. Dead space . Occurs when a significant erosion occurs underneath the outwardly visible wound margins resulting in more extensive damage beneath the skin surface. (Undertaker mining under the wound )
Aerobic bacteria
An organism that can survive and grow in an oxygenated environment ((air on back (blowing oxygen) to cause bacteria to grow )
Epithelialization
The process of becoming covered or converted to epithelium. - a membranous cellular tissue that covers a free surface or lines a tube or cavity and serves especially to enclose and protect the other parts of the body and to produce secretions and excretions. (Epic realization (your remember your cell phone and tissue will produce secretions and excretions to protect your body)
Angiogenesis
The process through which new blood vessels form from pre-existing vessels . (Angie plays drums and more of her blood vessels form from pre-existing blood vessels)
Chronic wound
A wound that does not heal in an orderly set of stages , within 3 months or at all. Always inflamed.
Collagen
A protein which provides the supportive network of connective tissue
Erythema
Redness of skin ( rash) caused by dilation and congestion of the capillaries, often a sign of inflammation or infection. (Eurythmics sang so loud capillaries dilated and congested / infected the microphone and it burst in flames)
Maceration
Occurs when skin is in contact with moisture too long . Feels wet, soggy, associated with improper wound care (masterbation and cuming on skin and leaving it makes it soggy . )
Wound
A physical injury to the body consisting of a laceration or breaking of the skin or mucous membrane often with damage to underlying tissue