KEY TERMS
Lines the abdomen and contains two layers
What is the peritoneum?
The sound or feeling of broken fragments of bone grinding against each other
What is crepitus?
Injury name when more and one major organ system is involved.
Multisystem Injury
The only completely circular cartilaginous ring of the upper airway
What is Cricoid cartilage?
The vessels that carry oxygenated blood to the arterioles and then to the capillaries
What are arteries?
The Organ of pregnancy
Placenta
Hypersensitivity reaction resulting from exposure to an allergen
What is an allergic reaction?
The muscle that separates the thoracic and abdominal cavities
What is the diaphragm?
A specialized language used in all medical fields
What is Medical terminology?
Assessment reveals a purplish discoloration of the mastoid area behind the ear.
What are Battle Signs?
An inadequacy in the amount of oxygen delivered to the cells
What is hypoxia?
Cardiac rhythm abnormalities
What is dysrhythmia?
Unborn infants lifeline
What is the Umbilical Cord?
The process of developing hypersensitivity on first exposure to an antigen
A gasping type breaths, common in cardiac arrest
What are agonal respirations?
A word part added to the end of the combining form
What is the suffix?
An abdominal injury characterized as a portion of the abdominal organ protruding through the open wound in the abdomen
What is Abdominal Evisceration?
Late sign of hypoxia characterized by bluish gray color
What is Cyanosis?
Causes the heart muscle to contract when the electrical charges in the heart muscle changes from negative to positive.
What is Depolarization?
Vomiting so severe that it causes severe dehydration and electrolyte disturbances.
What is Hyperemesis Gravidarum?
Primary chemical mediator released from mast cells and basophil
What is Histamine?
A condition in which increased tissue pressure in a confined space causes decreased flood flow, leading to hypoxia and possible muscle, nerve and vessel impairment, which cam be permanent
What is compartment system?
Meaning of -itis
What is inflammation?
A tool used to help determine the level of responsiveness. Measures eye, verbal, and motor responses
What is the Glasgow Comma Scale (GCS)
A harsh, high-pitched sound heard during inspiration.
What is Stridor?
Pace maker of the heart
What is the sino-artia node (SA Node)?
Premature separation of the placenta from the uterine wall prior to the birth of the baby
What is abrupto placentae (placenta abruption)?
An antibody produced specific to anaphylaxis
Immunoglobulin E (IgE)
Collection of blood between the dura mater and the arachnoid layer of the brain
What is Subdural Hematoma?
an instrument used for examining
What is -scopy?
A common cardiac injury following a severe blunt trauma to the chest
What is Cardiac Contusion?
A condition in which the patient is working harder to breathe
What is respiratory distress?
The delivery of oxygen and nutrients from the blood through the thin capillary walls into the cells, and the removal of carbon dioxide and other wastes
What is perfusion?
An Umbilical cord wrapped around the baby's neck.
What is the Nuchal Cord?
An allergic reaction in which no sensitization is required
What is an anaphylactoid reaction or NON-IgE mediated reaction