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62 Cards in this Set

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BS

Breath sounds

R

Respirators

SOB

Shortness of breath

Reg

Regular

Bpm

Beats per minute

IDDM

Insulin dependent diabetes, type 1 diabetes

Inj

Injection

MI

Myocardial injection

O2

Oxygen

AIDS

Acquired immunodifiency syndrome

FBS

Fasting blood sugar

CSF

Cerebrospinal fluid

Asthma

Disease of the air passage

Mild airway block

Can talk or make sounds, cough loudly

Choking sign

Holding the neck with one or both hands

Severe allergic reaction

Trouble breathing, swelling of tongue, shock

Sudden cardiac arrest

Results from an abnormal heart rhythm that causes the heart to quiver so that it can no longer pump blood

Fainting

Short period of time when a person stops responding and then seems fine

Choking

When food or another object gets stuck in the airway in the throat

Severe airway block

Cannot breathe or talk or make sounds has a cough with no sounds makes choking sign

Mild allergic reaction

Stuffy nose sneezing itching around the eyes or skin rash

Epinephrine

A drug that can stop a severe allergic reaction

Heart attack

Blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked by a clot

Diabetes

A disease that affect the levels of sugar in the blood

Stroke

When blood stops flowing to a part of the brain due to block vessel

Nas/o

Nose

Bronchi/o

Bronchial tube

Hemo-, hemat/o

Blood

Dys-

Difficult, bad, painful

-ia

Abnormal condition

A-

Not, no, without

Pharyng/o

Throat

Trache/o

Trachea, windpipe

-pnea, pnea

Breathing

-al, -ary, -ic, -ac

Pertaining to

Thorac/o

Chest

-itis

Inflammation of

Cardi/o card/o

Heart

Circulat/o

Circulate

-ion

Condition

Arter/o

Artery

Coagul/o coagulat/o

Clotting

Gluc/o

Glucose/sugar

-um

Noun ending

Pulmon/o

Lung

Cerebr/o

Cerebrum, brain

Crani/o

Skull

Nuer/l, neur/o

Nerve

Spin/o

Spine

Nasopharynx

Nose throat

Hemothorax

Blood in chest

Dyspnea

Difficult/painful breathing

Artery

Blood vessel that brings blood away from the heart

Bronchitis

Inflammation of the bronchioles

Apnea

Inability to breath

Systemic circulation

General circulation to the systems. Oxygentated blood from the left ventricle to tissues of the body returning de-oxygenated blood to right atrium

Cranium

Skull

Pulmonary

Pertaining to the lungs/respiratory system

Cerebrospinal fluid

Fluid contained in the brains ventricles, intracranial spaces and ventral canal of the spinal cord

Coagulation

Condition of clotting

Epileps

Transient disturbances of the brain function

Brain stem

Maintains the heartbeat, respiration and BP