Medical Terminology
Below normal
What is hypo?
Hormones produced by this system are carried by the bloodstream to all parts of the body, affecting physical strength, mental ability, build, stature, reproduction, hair growth, voice pitch, and behavior.
What is the endocrine system?
What is the composition of oxygen in ambient air?
What is 21%?
As children age some vital signs start to trend downward. What one vital sign continues to increase throughout childhood into adulthood?
What is blood pressure?
Structure characterized by it's leaf shape which acts as a valve to close the larynx while food and drink are being swallowed.
What is the epiglottis?
Fast
What is tachy?
The brainstem, the cerebellum, and the cerebrum comprise this.
What is the Central Nervous System?
Anaerobic respiration has byproducts of ATP and what?
What is lactic acid?
By this age, infants should be able to track objects with their eyes, recognize familiar faces, show primary emotions, hear and recognize familiar sounds and voices, and move in response to stimuli.
What is 2 months old?
The diaphragm is the major muscle used in ventilation. It is responsible for what percent of the effort of ventilation?
What is 60-70%
a-
What is without?
Part of the blood pressure when pressure is exerted against the walls of the arteries when the left ventricle contracts.
What is systolic blood pressure.
A measure of the ability of the chest wall and lungs to stretch, distend, and expand.
What is compliance?
The AVERAGE heart rate for a person in middle adulthood.
What is 70 beats per minute?
GENERAL term used to describe an inadequacy in the amount of oxygen being delivered to the cells.
What is hypoxia?
-ia
What is condition?
Visualize the normal anatomical position. Now imagine a line drawn vertically through the middle of the patient's body dividing it into equal left and right halves. What is the name of this line?
What is midline?
An average-sized adult moves approximately how much air in and out of the lungs in one minute?
What is 6,000mL or 6L?
What is nocturnal enuresis?
List 4 abnormal UPPER airway sounds and describe how each sounds.
1. Snoring-snoring sound
2. Crowing-crow cawing
3. Gurgling-gargling
4. Stridor-harsh, high-pitched sound during inspiration
hepat
What is liver?
List the 4 components of blood.
RBC's, WBC's, Platelets, and Plasma
As blood fills the left ventricle, the muscle fibers stretch to house the blood. The stretch of the muscle fiber at the end of diastole determines the force available to eject the blood from the ventricle.
What is the Frank-Starling law of the heart?
The ranges of heartrate and respiratory rates in preschoolers.
What is 80-120 beats per minute and 20-28 breaths per minute?
List 4 characteristics associated with adequate breathing and DESCRIBE each.
1. Rate-within normal range such as 12-20 for adults.
2. Rhythm-regular breathing pattern.
3. Quality-Normal breath sounds.
4. Depth-Equal and bilateral chest rise and fall.