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An instrument that illuminates the Internal eye structures enabling rhe examiner to look through the pupil at the fundus of the eye |
Opthalmoscope |
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an instrument that illuminates the ear canal enabling the examiner to look at the ear canal and Tympanic membrane |
Otoscope |
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heart rate fewer than 50 or 60 beats per minute in the adult |
Bradycardia |
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Instrument for measuring arterial blood pressure |
Sphygmomanometer |
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Heart rate greater than 95 beats per minute in the adult |
Tachycardia |
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Short term self limiting often predictable trajectory stops after injury heals |
Acute pain |
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Pain restarts or escalates before next scheduled analgesic dose |
Break through pain |
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Pain continues for 6 months or longer after initial injury |
Chronic pain |
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Abnormal processing of pain message burning shooting in nature |
Neuropathic pain |
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An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage pain is always subjective |
Pain |
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Painful at a particular site but originate from another location |
Referred pain |
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Originated from muscle bone joints tendons or blood vessels |
Somatic pain |
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Originated from internal organs such as the gallbladder or stomach |
Visceral pain |
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Act of listening for sounds within the body to evaluate the condition of the heart vessels lungs, pleura andintestines |
Auscultation |
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Part of stethoscope used to hear high frequency sounds |
Bell |
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Part of stethoscope used to hear low sounds |
Diaphragm |
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A technique used in physical examination in which examiner feels the texture size consistency and location of certain body parts |
Palpation |
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A technique and physical examination of tapping the body with fingertip or fist to evaluate size borders and consistency of some of internal organs also to see if any fluid is in the body cavity |
Percussion |
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Formula for determining obesity divided patience wait and kilograms by square of persons height in meters |
Body mass index |
