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Maternal & Child Health Nursing: Care of

the Childbearing & Childrearing Family,

7th edition – Glossary Exam with

Complete Solution


A -✔✔

abortion: -✔✔ any interruption of a pregnancy before the fetus is viable (a

stage of development that

will enable the fetus to survive outside the uterus if born at that time)

absorption: -✔✔ transfer of a drug from its point of entry in the body into the

bloodstream

abstinence: -✔✔ refraining from sexual intercourse

abstract thought: -✔✔ final stage in cognitive thought processes; allows

problem solving and

creating hypotheses

,accommodation: -✔✔ adjustment of the eye to focus on a close image

(ophthalmology); the ability to

adapt thought processes to fit what is perceived (Piaget)

acculturation: -✔✔ the process of losing cultural beliefs and values to those

of a dominant society

acrocyanosis: -✔✔ cyanosis (blue color) in the feet and hands

acute bilirubin encephalopathy: permanent damage of brain cells caused

when high levels

(about 20 mg-100 ml) of indirect bilirubin leave the bloodstream and

interfere with the chemical

synthesis of brain cells

acute pain: -✔✔ sharp pain, generally occurring abruptly after an injury

acyanotic heart disease: heart or circulatory anomalies that involve either a

stricture to the flow

of blood or a shunt that moves blood from the arterial to the venous system

(oxygenated to

unoxygenated blood, or left-to-right shunts)

adolescence: -✔✔ the time period between 13 years and 18 to 20 years

adrenarche: -✔✔ pubic and axillary hair that occur with puberty

,adventitious sounds: extra or abnormal breathing sounds

affective learning: learning that involves a change in attitude

afterload: -✔✔ the resistance against which the cardiac ventricles must

pump

afterpains: -✔✔ intermittent cramping due to uterine contraction during

involution in the postpartal

period

age of viability: -✔✔ the earliest age at which fetuses could survive if they

were born at that time;

generally accepted as 24 weeks, or fetuses weighing more than 400 g

alleles: -✔✔ two like genes

allergen: -✔✔ antigen that causes the release of mediating substances

causing tissue injury and

allergic symptoms

allogeneic transplantation: -✔✔ transfer of body tissues from an immune-

compatible

(histocompatible) donor

allografting: -✔✔ transfer of body tissue between two genetically dissimilar

individuals

, Alport's syndrome: -✔✔ a progressive chronic glomerulonephritis inherited

as an autosomal

dominant disorder

alternative birthing center: -✔✔ a setting for birth separate from a hospital

alternative insemination: -✔✔ assistive reproductive technique, in which

sperm is deposited into a

woman's cervix or uterus

amblyopia: -✔✔ reduced vision in one eye; ―lazy eye‖

amenorrhea: -✔✔ absence of a menstrual flow

amniocentesis: -✔✔ the withdrawal of amniotic fluid from the uterus by

means of introduction of a

needle through the abdominal and uterine wall

amnioinfusion: -✔✔ enlarging the amount of amniotic fluid by administration

of normal saline or

lactated Ringer's solution intravaginally into the uterus

amniotic fluid embolism: -✔✔ condition in which amniotic fluid is forced into

maternal circulation

and travels to the lungs as small emboli

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