Vocabulary Flashcards
Afebrile
without fever
Ballard gestational age assessment
used to assess or confirm the gestational age of a neonate utilizing six physical and six neuromusccular characteristics
failure to thrive
a sign defined by growth in an infant or child below the 3rd or 5th percentile on growth
febrile
temperature gereater than 38C
gestational age
measure of newborn’s maturity
hypercephalus
condition resulting from excessive cerebral spinal fluid in teh brain or ventricular system
korotkoff sounds
turbulence of blood flow in artery
orthostatic hypotension
when you have hypotension in an erect position. can be caught when systolic blood pressure decreases by at least 20 mmHg or diastolic by 10 mmHg with a reflex increase in heart rate within 3 minutes of going to standing from sitting
pulse pressure
the difference in systolic and diastolic
normal pulse pressure
30-50 mmHg
alopecia
hair loss
angular cheilosis
reddish inflammation of the lip or lips and production of fissures that radiate from the angles of the mouth
anosmia
absence of the sense of smell.
reasons for anosmia
lesion of the olfactory nerve, obstruction of the nasal fossae, or functional without any apparent causative lesion
branchial cleft cyst
a congenital lesion due to the incomplete involution of the branchial cleft which is usually located in the lateral neck
