Things To Ponder Exam 4

Front 1

Braille

Back 1

A touch reading and wiring system

Front 2

Tinnitus

Back 2

A ringing roaring hissing or buzzing sound in the ears or head

Front 3

Cerumen

Back 3

Earwax

Front 4

Vertigo

Back 4

Dizziness

Front 5

Metastasis

Back 5

The spread of cancer to other body parts

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Malignant

Back 6

Invades and destroys nearby tissues and can spread to other body parts; cancer

Front 7

Benign

Back 7

Does not spread to other body parts, but it can grow to a large size

Front 8

Arthritis

Back 8

Joint inflammation

Front 9

Arthroplasty

Back 9

The surgical replacement of a joint

Front 10

Compound fracture

Back 10

The broken bone has come through the skin

Front 11

Simple fx

Back 11

The bone is broken but the skin intact

Front 12

Fx

Back 12

A broken bone

Front 13

AD

Back 13

Brain disease nerve cells that control intellectual and social function are damaged and die.

Front 14

Sundowning

Back 14

Signs, symptoms, and behaviors of AD increase durinf hours of darkness

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Cognitive function

Back 15

Involves memory, thinking, reasoning, ability to understand, judgment, and behavior

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Defense machanisms

Back 16

An unconscious reaction that blocks unpleasant or threatening feeling

Front 17

Delusions

Back 17

A false belief

Front 18

Delusions of grandeur

Back 18

An exaggerated belief about one's importance wealth power or talents

Front 19

Delusions of persecutions

Back 19

A false belief that one is being mistreated abused or harassed

Front 20

Hallucination

Back 20

Seeing hearing smelling or feeling something that is not normal

Front 21

Psychosis

Back 21

A state of severe mental impairment

Front 22

Stress

Back 22

The response or change in the body caused by any emotional physical social or economics factors

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Dementia

Back 23

The loss of cognitive and social function caused by changes in the brain

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Postmortem

Back 24

After childbirth

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Rigor mortis

Back 25

The stiffness or rigidity of skeletal muscles that occurs after death

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Terminal illness

Back 26

Illness or injury from which the person will probs not recover

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Autopsy

Back 27

The examination of the body after death

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Quadriplegia

Back 28

Paralysis in the arms legs and trunk

Front 29

Paralysis

Back 29

Loss of muscle function, sensation, or both

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Advance directive

Back 30

A document stating a persons wishes about health care when that person can't make their own desicon

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Hemiplegia

Back 31

Paralysis on one side of the body

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Stroke

Back 32

CVA a disease that affects the arteries that supply blood to the brain

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Pyuria

Back 33

Pus in the urine

Front 34

TIA

Back 34

Transient ischemic attack are warning signs of a stroke that last only a few minutes

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Cystitis

Back 35

A bladder infection

Front 36

BPH

Back 36

Benign prostatic hyperplasia enlarged prostate

Front 37

Urostomy

Back 37

A surgically created opening between a ureter and the abd.

Front 38

Renal calculi

Back 38

Kidney stones

Front 39

Polyuria

Back 39

Abnormally large amt. Of urine output

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Anxiety

Back 40

A vague, uneasy feeling in response to stress

Front 41

Obsession

Back 41

A recurrent unwanted thought idda or image

Front 42

Paranoia

Back 42

A disordee of the mond false belief and suspicions about a person or situation

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Phobia

Back 43

An intense fear

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Compulsion

Back 44

Repeating an act over and over again

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5 stages of dying

Back 45

Denial

Anger

Bargaining

Depression

Acceptance

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4 stages of a pressure ulcers

Back 46

1. Redness over boney area

2. Partial thickness loss

3. Fell thickness loss

4. Tissue loss, bone and muscle exposed