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Nursing diagnosis |
Clinical judgement about individual family or community responses to actual or potential health problems |
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Medical nutrition therapy |
A specific nutrition service and procedure that is used to treat an illness injury or condition |
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Kinesiotherapist |
A health care professional who treats the effect of disease injury and congenital disorders through the application of scientifically based exercise principle that have Adapted to enhance the strength endurance as ND mobility of individuals with functional limitations |
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Nursing process |
The means by which nurses deliver care to patients |
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Anthropomometric measurements |
The physical measurement of the human body that are used for health assessment including height weight |
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Enteral |
A mode of feeding that does not make use of the gastrointestinal tract through oral or tube feeding |
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Parenteral |
A mode of feeding that does not make use of the gastrointestinal tract but that instead provides nutrition support via the intravenous delivery of nutrient solution |
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Polypharmacy |
The use of multiple medications by a patient |
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Dialysis |
The process of separating crystalloids and colloid in solution by the difference in their rates of diffusion through a semipermeable membrane |
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Nephron |
The functional unit of the kidney that filters and reabsorbs essential blood constituents secretes hydrogen ions as needed to maintain the acid base balance reabsorbs water and forms and excreted a concentrated urine for elimination of wastes |
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Bowman capsule |
The membrane at the head of each nephron |
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Glomerulus |
The first section of the nephron a cluster of capillary loops |
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Glomerular filtration rate |
The volume of fluid that is filtered from the renal glomerular capillaries into bowman capsule per unit |
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Aldosterone |
A hormone of the adrenal glands that acts on the distal nephron tubular to stimulate the reabsorption of sodium in an ion exchange with potassium |
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Antidiuretic horomine |
A hormone of the pituitary gland that acts on the distal nephron tubular to conserve water |
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Arteriole |
The smallest branch of an artery that connects with the capillaries |
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Erythropoietin |
Hormone that stimulates the production of red blood cells in the bone marrow |
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Nephrotoxic |
Poisonous to the kidney |
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Hematuria |
The abnormal presence of blood in the urine |
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Edema |
The excess accumulation of fluid in the body tissue |
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Oliguria |
The secretion of small amounts of urine in relation to fluid intake |
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Anuria |
The absence of urine production |
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Nephrosis |
Degenerative lesions of the renal tubes of the nephrons and especially of the thin basement membrane of the glomerulus that helps to support the capillary loops |
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Ascites |
The accumulation of serous fluid in the abdominal cavity |
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Lipiduria |
Lipid droplets found in urine that are composed mostly of cholesterol esters |
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Blood urea nitrogen |
A test of nephron function that measures the ability to filter urine nitrogen which is a product of protein Metabolism from the blood |
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Ketosis |
The accumulation of ketones which are intermediate products of fat metabolism in the blood |
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Hypotension |
Low blood pressure |
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Creatinine |
A nitrogen carrying product of normal tissue protein breakdown |
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Dialysate |
The cleansing of solution used in dialysis |
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Chronic kidney disease mineral and Bone disorder |
A clinical syndrome that develops as a systemic disorder of mineral and Bone metabolism in patients with chronic kidney disease |
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Osteodystrophy |
An alteration of bone morphology found in patients with chronic kidney disease |
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Azotemia |
In excess of urea and other nitrogenous substances in the blood |
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Peritoneal cavity |
A serious membrane that lines the abdominal and pelvic walls and the undersurface of the diaphragm to form a Sac that encloses the body's vital visceral organs |
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Expanded criteria donors |
Any brain dead donor who is older than 60 years old or a donor whose older than 50 years old which of the following conditions history of hypertension or death from a cerebral vascular accident |
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Nephrolithiasis |
The formation of a kidney stone |
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Acidic or alkaline diet |
Diets based on the theory that diets high in acid in food will disrupt the body's normal pH balance which is slightly alkaline |
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Enteral |
Another thing that makes use of the gastrointestinal tract through oral or tube feedings |
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Parenteral |
A mode of feeding that does not involve the gastrointestinal tract but that instead provides nutrition support via the intravenous delivery of nutrient Solutions |
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Catabolism |
The metallic process of breaking down large substances to yield the smaller building blocks |
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Elemental formula |
In nutrition support formula composed of simple Elemental nutrition components that require no further digestive breakdown and are thus readily absorbed |
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Branched chain amino acids |
Amino acids with Branch side chains three of the essential amino acids are branched chain amino acids Lewiston isoleucine and valine |
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Exudate |
Various materials such as cells cellular debris and fluids that have escaped from the blood vessels and that are deposited in or on the Surface tissues usually as a result of inflammation |
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Osmotic pressure |
Hydrostatic pressure across a semipermeable membrane that is necessary to maintain the normal movement of fluid between the capillaries and the surrounding tissue |