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Medical asepsis - ️️the use of practices aimed at destroying pathological organisms after they leave the body; employed in the care of patients with infectious diseases to prevent reinfection of the patient and to avoid the spread of infection from one person to another (aka isolation precau...

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NSC 232 Exam 1
Medical asepsis - ✔️✔️the use of practices aimed at destroying pathological organisms
after they leave the body; employed in the care of patients with infectious diseases to
prevent reinfection of the patient and to avoid the spread of infection from one person to
another (aka isolation precautions)


Activities of daily living - ✔️✔️The things we normally do in daily living including any
daily activity we perform for self-care such as feeding ourselves, bathing, dressing,
grooming, work, homemaking, and leisure. The ability or inability to perform ADLs can
be used as a very practical measure of ability/disability in many disorders.

Febrile - ✔️✔️Has a fever

Afebrile - ✔️✔️does not have a fever

Constant fever - ✔️✔️the body temp fluctuates minimally but always remains above
normal

Remittent fever - ✔️✔️a wide range of temperature fluctuations (more than 2˚C) in a 24
hour period of time, all of which are above normal (most common with a cold or
influenza)

Relapsing fever - ✔️✔️short febrile periods of a few days are interspersed with periods
of 1-2 days of normal temperature

Intermittent Fever - ✔️✔️the body temperature alternates at regular intervals between
periods of fever and periods of normal or subnormal temperatures

Antipyretics - ✔️✔️medications used to lower fevers

Conduction - ✔️✔️transfer of heat between 2 objects in direct physical contact

Convection - ✔️✔️transfer of heat by movement of air (ventilation)

Radiation - ✔️✔️transfer of heat to objects not in physical contact

Evaporation - ✔️✔️transfer of heat by water vapor (sweating)

Inhalation - ✔️✔️active movement in which the diaphragm contracts, ribs move
upward, sternum moves outward, increased size of thorax

, Exhalation - ✔️✔️passive movement in which diaphragm relaxes, ribs move down and
in, and sternum moves inward

Systolic pressure - ✔️✔️contraction of the ventricles; first Korotkoff's sound

Diastolic pressure - ✔️✔️Ventricles at rest; last Korotkoff sound

Pulse pressure - ✔️✔️difference between systolic and diastolic pressures


Ambulatory - ✔️✔️relating to or adapted for walking


Thermoregulation - ✔️✔️relationship between heat production and heat loss


Apical pulse - ✔️✔️The rhythmical throbbing of arteries produced by the regular
contractions of the heart, especially as palpated at the wrist or in the neck; a regular or
rhythmical beating, a single beat or throb

Aspiration - ✔️✔️the drawing or a foreign substance, such as gastric contents, into the
respiratory tract during inhalation

Auscultation - ✔️✔️listening for sounds produced within the body, chiefly to assess the
condition of the thoracic or abdominal organs and vessels such as the heart, lungs,
aorta, and intestines.

Bradycardia - ✔️✔️slowness of the heartbeat, so that the pulse rate is less than 60
beats per minute

Bradypnea - ✔️✔️respirations that are regular in rhythm but are slower than normal in
rate

Client - ✔️✔️A patron or customer; one who receives a professional service from
another; one who seeks or receives advice or therapy from a health care professional
(aka patient)

Confidentiality - ✔️✔️The legally protected right afforded to (and duty required of)
specifically designated health care professionals not to disclose information discerned
or communicated during consultation with a patient.

Cyanosis - ✔️✔️a bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membranes due to
excessive concentration of reduced hemoglobin in the blood.

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