DAANCE EXAM WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS - Addison's Disease: ️ A disease due to hyposecretion of glucocorticoids, characterized by low blood
pressure, diarrhea, digestive disturbance, and a bronzelike pigmentation of the skin. - Adjunctive Agents: ️ Agents that supplement the primary anesthetic age...
- Addison's Disease: ✔️ A disease due to hyposecretion of glucocorticoids, characterized by low blood
pressure, diarrhea, digestive disturbance, and a bronzelike pigmentation of the skin.
- Adjunctive Agents: ✔️ Agents that supplement the primary anesthetic agents to augment or enhance
the effects of the primary agent.
- Allergenicity: ✔️ Having the property of an allergen, a substance that elicits an allergic response in
sensitive individuals.
- Alveolus (plural: Alveoli): ✔️ A small air sac within the lung.
- Amide: ✔️ A chemical structure derived from ammonia; a group of amide local anesthetics widely
used in dentistry (e.g., lidocaine, mepivacaine, prilocaine, bupivacaine).
- Amnesia: ✔️ Failure to remember events related to surgery.
- Analgesia: ✔️ Insensitivity to pain.
- Anaphylaxis: ✔️ A severe allergic reaction marked by skin reactions, smooth muscle cramping, urinary
incontinence, bronchoconstriction, respiratory difficulty, and cardiovascular collapse.
- Anemia: ✔️ A reduction in the number of red blood cells in the bloodstream.
- Angina Pectoris: ✔️ Pain in the chest, with a feeling of suffocation, usually due to deficiency of blood
supply to the myocardium.
- Antecubital: ✔️ Situated in front of the elbow.
,- Antecubital Fossa: ✔️ The depression between the forearm and the upper arm, literally "in front of
the elbow."
- Anticholinergic: ✔️ A drug that counteracts the action of acetylcholine, blocking the effects of the
parasympathetic nervous system.
- Antiemetic: ✔️ A drug that counteracts nausea and vomiting.
- Antisialagogue: ✔️ A drug that counteracts the production of saliva.
- Anxiolytic: ✔️ Drugs that reduce anxiety, agitation, or tension (e.g., Valium, midazolam).
- Aorta: ✔️ The main trunk (a very large artery) from which the arterial system proceeds.
- Apnea: ✔️ Absence or cessation of breathing.
- Arrest Rhythms: ✔️ Cardiac rhythms indicating cardiac arrest; some may display rhythms like
pulseless ventricular tachycardia, but without contraction.
- Arrhythmia: ✔️ Any variation from the normal rhythm of the heartbeat.
- Arteriole: ✔️ Any of the very small arterial branches located at the end of an artery (furthest from the
heart).
- Artery: ✔️ A vessel that carries blood away from the heart to other parts of the body.
- Ascites: ✔️ Accumulation of serous fluid in the abdominal cavity.
- Asystole: ✔️ Cardiac arrest where there is no rhythm display and no contraction.
, - Ataractics: ✔️ Pharmacologic agents that produce a tranquilizing effect.
- Atherosclerosis: ✔️ A disease of the arteries characterized by plaques of fatty material on their inner
walls.
- Atrial Fibrillation: ✔️ Atrial arrhythmia characterized by rapid randomized contractions of the atrial
myocardium, resulting in a totally irregular and often rapid ventricular rate.
- Atrial Flutter: ✔️ A condition of cardiac arrhythmia where atrial contractions occur rapidly (200 to 320
per minute).
- Atrial (Supraventricular) Rhythms: ✔️ Dysrhythmias in which the pacemaker is located in the atria
above the ventricles.
- Atrial Tachycardia: ✔️ Rapid heartbeat originating from the atria.
- Atrioventricular Block (AV Block): ✔️ A cardiac conduction defect where impulses generated by the SA
node are partially or completely blocked at the AV node.
- Atrioventricular Node: ✔️ A microscopic collection of heart muscle fibers involved in the heart's
electrical activity.
- Atrium (plural: Atria): ✔️ An upper chamber of the heart; atria also exist in other parts of the body.
- Automaticity: ✔️ The condition of being automatic.
- Autonomic Nervous System: ✔️ The part of the nervous system concerned with the regulation of
cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and glands.
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