A&P I
This is the largest organ of the body.
What it the skin?
The linings of body cavities and passages that communicate directly or indirectly with the environment outside the body.
What are mucous membranes?
This occurs when a significant force is applied to the body.
What is a crushing injury?
A wound of the superficial layer of the skin, caused by friction when a body part rubs or scrapes across a rough or hard surface.
What is an abrasion?
This is a major concern with small animal bites.
What is the spread of rabies?
This type of burn involves the epidermis and some portion of the dermis.
What is a partial-thickness or second-degree burn?
Coming into contact with hot objects produces a ______ burn.
What is contact?
The skin of the eyelids, lips, and ears is considered to be this kind of skin.
What is thin?
The tough, external layer that forms a watertight covering for the body.
What is the epidermis?
This is a tough, fibrous protein found in scar tissue, hair, bones, and other connective tissues.
What is collagen?
A jagged cut in the skin caused by a sharp object or a blunt force that tears the tissue.
What is a laceration?
RICE
What is rest, ice, compression, elevation, and splinting?
This occurs when the body, or a body part, receives more radiant energy than it can absorb, resulting in an injury.
What is a burn?
This measurement system divides the body into sections, each of which is approximately 9% of the total body surface area.
What is the rule of nines?
Injuries that result from sudden or extreme changes in air pressure.
What is barotrauma?
This type of injury occurs when the soft-tissue is damaged beneath the skin or mucous membrane but the surface of the skin or mucous membrane remains intact.
What is a closed-injury?
When an area of the body is trapped for longer than 4 hours and arterial blood flow is compromised, this can develop.
What is crush syndrome?
The fiber-like connective tissue that covers arteries, veins, tendons, and ligaments.
What is the fascia?
This type of dressing is used to cover open chest wounds.
What is an occlusive dressing?
This type of burn extends though all skin layers and may involve subcutaneous layers, muscle, bone, or internal organs
What is a full-thickness or third-degree burn?
This type of burn involves alpha, beta, and gamma particles.
What is a radiation burn?
The skin covering the the scalp, the back, and the soles of the feet is this type of skin.
What is thick?
The inner layer of skin, containing hair follicles, sweat glands, nerve endings, and blood vessels.
What is the dermis?
This is an injury that causes bleeding beneath the skin but does not break the skin.
What is a contusion or bruise?
A sharp, smooth cut.
The displacement of organs outside the body.
What is an evisceration?
This type of burn involves only the top layer of skin, the epidermis.
What is a superficial or first degree burn?
This type of burn is caused by liquids and can spread easily.
What is a scald burn?
Death resulting from soft-tissue injury is often related to this or infection.
What is hemorrhage
This type of injury occurs when the soft-tissue is damaged as a result of thermal heat, frictional heat, toxic chemicals, electricity, or nuclear radiation.
What is a burn?
With a bruise, the buildup of blood produces a characteristic blue or black discoloration called this.
What is ecchymosis?
An injury that separates various layers of soft tissue, usually between the subcutaneous layer and the fascia so they become completely detached or hang as a flap.
What is an avulsion?
These are the only two reasons you would remove an impaled object.
What is the object is in the cheek or mouth and obstructs the airway or it's in the chest and interferes with CPR?
The greater the heat energy, the _______ the wound.
What is deeper?
This type of burn is produced by an explosion.
What is a flash burn?