Week One: Testing drugs, diseases, and dissection Flashcards
What is assessment?
Evaluation of a condition
What is a signalment?
Description of the animal
What does a signalment contain?
Species, breed, age, reproductive status, and color
What are vital signs?
Objective patient data
Parameters taken from the animal to assess its health
What are examples of vital signs?
temperature, pulse and pulse rate, heart rate, respiration and respiration rate, and blood pressure
What is febrile?
Fever
What is Afebrile?
Non fever
What is pyrexia?
Patient has a fever
What does a sphygmomanometer measure?
KNOW HOW TO SPELL THIS
Measures blood pressure
What is auscultation?
The act of listening to body sounds
What is palpation?
Examination by feeling
What is percussion?
Examination by tapping the surface to determine density of a body area
What is speculum?
Used to see into body cavities
What does CBC stand for?
Complete blood count
What is an assay?
Test
What is a refractometer?
Measures refractions (like urine or plasma and sees how light is bending through them)
What is a centrifuge?
Spins and separates things
What is a diagnosis?
dx
Cause of disease determined by the veterinarian
What is differential diagnosis?
ddx
List of possible causes of a disease
What is a prognosis?
Prediction of the outcome of disease determined by the veterinarian
What is a sign?
What you see happen because of a disease
What is a symptom?
Felt by the patient
Usually used in human medicine
What is acute?
Fast onset
What is chronic?
Long term, slow onset
What is endemic?
Something within a group
What is epidemic?
Something outside a group
What is pandemic?
Something everywhere, all people
What is a pathogen?
Microorganism that produces disease
What is a disease?
Deviation from normal
What does infectious mean?
Caused by pathogens
What is noninfectious?
Not caused by pathogens
What is communicable?
disease spread form one animal to another by direct or indirect contact and disorder transmitted from animal to animal or through contact with contaminated object
What is iatrogenic?
Disease caused by the vet. team
What is nosocomial?
Get sick from the clinic
What is idiopathic?
Disease where you have no idea why it’s occurring
What is prokaryotic?
Cell with no nucleus
Bacteria are…
Microscopic, prokaryotic, unicellular
Fungi are…
Eukaryotic, lacking chlorophyll
What are parasites?
Live on or in another living organism
What are viruses?
Sub-microscopic, survive only by invading other cells
What is transmission?
Disease transfer
What is morbidity?
Healthy vs. disease
What is mortality?
How many animals live vs. die from disease
What is prophylaxis?
Prevention
What is zoonosis?
A disease transmissible between humans and animals
What is clinical?
We can test for or see
What is subclinical?
Not showing signs of disease
What is labile?
Unstable