Positional Terms
Directional Terms
Homeostasis
Body Systems
Everything Goes
100
A patient presented to the ER with a laceration to the thigh. On the chart, the RN documented this site.
What is femoral?
100
The lungs in reference to the ribs.
deep
100
During labor, the baby's head pushes on the cervix. The nerves of the cervix send a signal to the brain.
The nerves of the cervix are known as this since it receives the signal from the stimulus.
What is the receptor?
100
Consists of the heart and blood vessels.
What is the cardiovascular system?
100
The most basic level of organization.
What is atom or molecular?
200
A patient was in a car accident where the airbag did not deploy. Since they were not wearing a seatbelt, they struck their head against the window. A fracture to the bone around the eye occurred. The physician, when describing the fracture referred to this area as a _________ fracture.
What is orbital?
200
This part of the femur articulates with the hip.
What is proximal?
200
When the blood sugar level elevates, the pancreas recognizes this and secretes insulin. Insulin causes cells to take in more sugar and store it. In this feedback loop, sugar is known as this.
What is the stimulus?
200
Allows exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
What is the respiratory system?
200
Level of organization composed of groups of tissue.
What is an organ?
300
The patient was driving and lost control of their vehicle. After hitting ice, they swerved off of the road into a telephone pole at approx 45 mph. They were wearing a seatbelt which caused a bruise to the middle of their chest. When the paramedic arrived, they called in to the ER to give report. They said that the patient had a bruise to this region.
What is the sternal or thoracic region?
300
A patient returned for a post-operative appointment. The nurse assessed the patient noted that the surgical scar indicated an incision in this plane because it divided the head into front and back.
What is the coronal plane?
300
When your blood calcium level elevates, the body secretes calcitonin which causes calcium levels to decrease (because calcium is sent to the bones or excreted in urine). This type of feedback mechanism responds by doing the opposite of the stimulus.
What is negative feedback loop?
300
Collects, interprets, and sends information regarding the body and its environment via electrical signals.
What is the nervous system?
300
The brain and spinal cord are considered to be this type of body cavity since they are toward the back of the body.
What is dorsal body cavity?
400
After arriving home from a long day of work, an occupational therapist came home to a house full of kids. She took her shoes off and walked to the living room. OUCH! She stepped on a Lego and bruised this area of her foot.
What is the planter region?
400
The results from the chest CT scan came back. When the ER physician was reading the report they noted that the images shown were in this plane since they divided the body into top and bottom.
What is the transverse plane?
400
When diseases occur it is because the normal balance of the body is affected. This is another way to say disease in the medical field.
What is homeostatic imbalance?
400
Controls the body’s activities by utilizing chemical messengers known as hormones that travel in the blood.
What is the endocrine system?
400
You are caring for a patient who has a surgical scar along the spinal column of their lower back. It runs along the spine from the rib cage to their pelvis. This position and directional term duo describe this scar.
What are sagittal and lumbar?
500
A nursing assistant (often referred to as a CNA) was providing perineal care after providing incontinence care to a resident in a Long Term Care Facility (LTCF). While she was applying a new brief, she saw redness to the groin. She reported to the nurse that there was excoriation to this area.
What is inguinal?
500
Your coworker came back from a vacation to the Bahamas - she asks you to evaluate her sunburn. Since it is a first degree burn, you call it this type of burn since it only involves the layer of skin closest to the surface.
What is superficial?
500
If your hand is unexpectedly exposed to something very hot its initial reaction is to pull away. The skin's nerves sense the hot surface/substance, the brain recognizes this and sends a signal to the muscles that move your hand away from the source. This is the name designated to the muscles.
What is the effector?
500
Our body's 'sewerage system'. It maintains fluid levels in our body tissues by removing all fluids that leak out of our blood vessels.
What is the lymphatic system?
500
A patient presents to the ER with a laceration (a cut) to below the eye and parallel to the eyebrow. When documenting, these terms would best describe the position of the injury.
What is inferior and transverse?