Med Term 3

Front 1

ABDOMEN

Back 1

1. lage and extends outward
2.hard, board like
3. soft, flabby
4. swollen, rounded
5. filled with gas
6. hangs down

Hint 1

1.protuberant, distended
2. hard, rigid, distended, tympanic, taut
3.relaxed, flaccid
4.distended, edematous
5. tympanic, flatulent
6. pendulous

Front 2

AMOUNTS

Back 2

1. large amounts of drainage
2. medium amount of drainage
3. small amount of drainage

Hint 2

1. profuse, copious
2. moderate
3. scant

Front 3

APPETITE

Back 3

1. loss of appetite

Hint 3

1. anorexia

Front 4

BACK

Back 4

1. Hunchback
2. small of back
3. swayback

Hint 4

1. kyphosis
2. lumbar region
3. lordosis

Front 5

BLEEDING

Back 5

1. nose bleed
2. blood in urine
3. spitting up of blood
4. positive blood in stool

Hint 5

1. epistaxis
2. hematuria
3. hemoptysis
4. Guaiac positive

Front 6

BREATH

Back 6

1. unpleasant
2. foul
3. with sweet fruit like odor
4. urinous odor

Hint 6

1. halitosis
2. fetid
3. fruity, sweet
4. odor of ammonia

Front 7

BREATHING

Back 7

1. breathing
2. difficult breathing
3. short periods when breathing has ceased
6. inability to breathe while lying down
7. rapid breathing
8. increasing dyspnea with periods of apnea
9. laborious and noisy

Hint 7

1. respiration
2. dyspnea
3. apnea
6. orthopnea
7. hyperpnea
8. Cheyne-Stokes respirations
9. stertorous

Front 8

CONSCIOUSNESS

Back 8

1. alert, fully conscious, oriented to date, time , place
2. only partly conscious
3. unconscious, but can be aroused
4. unconscious, cannot be aroused

Hint 8

1. alert, fully conscious
2. semi-conscious
3. stuporous
4. comatose

Front 9

COUGH

Back 9

1. type of cough
2. occurring in spasms
3. coughing up or expectoration of blood

Hint 9

1. continuous, persistent, productive, nonproductive, dry, hackling
2. spasmodic
3. hemoptysis

Front 10

DECAY

Back 10

1. dead tissue

Hint 10

1. tissue necrosis, necrotic

Front 11

DEFECATION

Back 11

1. frequent liquid defecation
2. color of stool
3. constituents of stool

Hint 11

1. diarrhea
2. clay or dark brown, black , mustard, yellow, green, tarry, streaked with blood
3. liquid, soft or hard formed, watery, semiformed, constipated, undigested foods, mucoid

Front 12

DRAINAGE

Back 12

1. containing pus
2. bloody
3. of lymphatic fluid
4. contains mucus and pus
5. tough, sticky
6. bloody, lymphatic (serous)

Hint 12

1. purulent
2. sanguineous
3. serous
4. mucopurulent
5. tenacious
6. serosanguineous

Front 13

EDEMA

Back 13

SWELLING IN EXTREMITIES, AFTER DEPRESSING FOR 5 seconds:
1. indented 2mm
2. indented 4 mm
3. indented 6 mm
4. indented 8 mm

Hint 13

1. 1+ edema
2. 2+ edema
3. 3+ edema
4. 4+ edema

Front 14

EMESIS

Back 14

1. produced by conscious effort of patient
2. ejected a few feet distance
3. if blood is noticeable

Hint 14

1. induced
2. projectile
3. hematemesis

Front 15

EYES

Back 15

1. sharpness of vision
2. yellow in color
3. puffy, swollen
4. drooping eyelids
6. unusually sensitive to light
7. double vision
8. cross eye, squinting
9. abnormal protrusion of eyeball
10. inflammation of conjunctiva
11. dilation of the pupil
12. contraction of the puil
13. near-sighedness
14. far-sightedness

Hint 15

1. visual acuity
2. jaundiced
3. edematous
4. ptosis of lids
6. photophobia
7. diplopia
8. strabismus
9. exophthalmos
10. conjunctivitis
11. mydrasis, pupil, dilated
12. myosis, pupil constricted, pin point
13. myopia
14. hyperopia

Front 16

FAINTNESS

Back 16

1. fainting

Hint 16

1. syncope

Front 17

FEVER

Back 17

1. without fever
2. temperature above normal
3. temperature greatly above normal

Hint 17

1. aferbrile
2. pyrexia
3. hyperpyrexia

Front 18

HEAD

Back 18

1. forehead
2. region over temple
3. back of head
4. base of skull
5. having a large head
6. having a small head
7 top of head

Hint 18

1. frontal region
2. temporal region
3. occipital region
4. bailar region
5. macrocephaly, hydrocephalus
6. microcephalus
7. parietal (left to right)

Front 19

HIVES

Back 19

1. hives
2. itching

Hint 19

1. urticaria
2. pruritus

Front 20

JOINTS

Back 20

1. bending
2. to straighten
3. revolve around
4. move away from median line
5. move toward median line

Hint 20

1. flexion
2. extension
3. rotation
4. abduction
5. adduction

Front 21

LIPS

Back 21

1. blue in color

Hint 21

1. cyanotic

Front 22

MEDICINE
(administration)

Back 22

1. by mouth
2. by rectum (pr) ;)
3. breathing in
4. rubbing into skin
5. under the skin
6. within the skin
7. within the muscle
8. within the spinal canal
9. within the vein
10. pouring into the body cavity

Hint 22

1. orally
2. rectally
3. inhalation
4. topicallly
5. subcutaneous
6. intradermal
7. intramuscular
8. intraspinal, intrathecal
9. intravenous
10. instillation

Front 23

MENSTRUATION

Back 23

1. if present when admitted
2. painful
3. total absence of
4. profuse of prolonged flow
5. cessation of

Hint 23

1. meses present
2. dysmenorrhea
3. amenorrhea
4. menorrhagia
5. menopause

Front 24

ODOR

Back 24

1. very unpleasant

Hint 24

1. offensive, foul

Front 25

PARALYSIS

Back 25

1. of the muscles of the face
2. of the legs
3. of one side of the body
4. of a single limb
5. of all 4 extremities and usually the trunk

Hint 25

1. facial
2. paraplegia
3. hemiplegia
4. monoplegia
5. quadriplegia

Front 26

PERSPIRATION

Back 26

1. large amount of profuse

Hint 26

1. Diaphoresis, diaphoretic

Front 27

POSITIONS

Back 27

1. flat on back, arms straight at sides
2. on side, knees flexed
3. on left side, left arm behind back, left leg slightly flexed, right leg greatly flexed
4. head of bed semi-eret
5. on back , buttocks near edge of table knees well flexed and separated
6. resting on knees and chest
7. on back, pelvis, and legs higher than head
8. on abdomen, face turned to one side
9. prone, with hips over break in the table and feet below level of head

Hint 27

1. supine
2. lateral
3. Sim's (left or right)
4. Semi-Fowler's 40-45° - modified, knees, & legs not flexed
5. lithotomy
6. knee-chest
7. Trendelenburg
8. prone
9. jackknife

Front 28

PULSE

Back 28

1. number of beats of minute
2. rhythm
3. beats missed at intervals
4. >100 beats per minute (bpm)
5. slow in rate, < 50 bpm
6. only scarcely perceptible
8. pulseless
9. pulse strength

Hint 28

1. rate
2. regular or irregular, coupling, galloping
3. intermittent
4. rapid, fast, tachycardia
5. slow, bradycardia
6. thready, weak
8 Imperceptible, absent
9. 0 = absent, not palpable , inaudible č Doppler
1+ = diminished/palpable
2+ = expected/normal
3+ = strong/full pulse
4+ = bounding, can't be obliterated
10. normal in rate and rhythm

Front 29

SKIN

Back 29

1. normal
2. blue in color
3. very white
4. redness
5. shines
6. raw surface
7. yellow in color
8. containing colored areas
9. scraped
10. cold and moist

Hint 29

1. Healthy, normal for race
2. Cyanotic, mottled
3. extreme pallor, ashen
4. erythema
5. glossy
6. excoriation
7. jaundiced
8. pigmented
9. abraded, denuded
10. clammy

Front 30

SPEECH

Back 30

1. not understandable
2. meaningless, wondering
3. words run together
4. difficulty speaking
5. unable to speak

Hint 30

1. incoherent
2. rambling
3. slurring
4. dysphasia
5. aphasisa

Front 31

THROAT

Back 31

1. difficulty swallowing
2. inability to swallow
3. other descriptive terms

Hint 31

1. dysphagia
2. aphagia
3. red, swollen, inflamed, ulcerated

Front 32

TONGUE

Back 32

1. descriptive terms

Hint 32

1. pink, moist, dry, cracked, swollen, coated, inflamed, ulcerated

Front 33

URINATION

Back 33

1. to urinate
2. no control over urination
3. large amount of urine voided
4. total suppression of urine
5. frequent voiding at night
6. increased amount of voided
7. painful urination
8. pus in urine
9. blood in urine
10. scantiness of urine
11. sugar in urine

Hint 33

1. voiding, micturate
2. incontinence
3. diuresis
4. anuria
5. nocturia
6. polyuria
7. dysuria
8. pyruia
9. hematuria
10. oliguria
11. glycosuria

Front 34

WEIGHT

Back 34

1. overweight
2. abnormal thinness
3. very underweight

Hint 34

1. obese
2. emaciated, wasting
3. cachectic

Front 35

WOUNDS

Back 35

1. discharging pus
2. black or gray necrotic tissue
3. wound drainage

Hint 35

1. suppurating, purulent
2. eschar
3. exudate

Front 36

CODE RED

Back 36

FIRE

Hint 36

USE R.A.C.E
Rescue, Alarm, Confine, Extinguish/Evacuate

Front 37

CODE ORANGE

Back 37

Dangerous or Violent Situation

Hint 37

Notify 911; Personal safety is priority

Front 38

CODE BROWN

Back 38

Severe Weather

Hint 38

Code will be called and staged. Stage I-Watch: for deteriorating conditions: Stage II- Warning: close windows and doors; Stage III- Imminent danger, evacuate to interior of building

Front 39

CODE BLUE

Back 39

Urgent Medical Assistance Needed

Hint 39

Call code overhead with location. Assist as appropriate and transport to appropriate unit.

Front 40

CODE YELLOW

Back 40

External Disaster Involving Casualties

Hint 40

Hospital and our area will prepare for influx of multiple patients. Charge Nurse/Nurse Manager will coordinate on your unit.

Front 41

CODE GREEN

Back 41

Internal Disaster Utility Failure

Hint 41

Code will be Called overhead. Backup generators and resources will be utilized. May need to evacuate certain areas.

Front 42

CODE PINK

Back 42

Missing or Abducted Child/Infant

Hint 42

Observe for possible abductors. Question any suspicious, suspected, or possible perpetrators. Write down any information immediately. Contact security and 911.

Front 43

CODE WHITE

Back 43

Evacuate the Unit or Hospital

Hint 43

Code will be called overhead. Nurse Manager/Charge Nurse will coordinate with staff and hospital emergency response team.

Front 44

CODE GRAY

Back 44

Hostage Situation

Hint 44

Stay calm, notify outside individuals if possible. Stay away from windows or doors. Comply with abductors requests.

Front 45

CODE BLACK

Back 45

Bomb Threat

Hint 45

Notify 911, call code overhead. Collect as much information as possible (if by phone). Do not tamper with any packages. Take personal belongings and evacuate the area.