Equipment
Respiratory vital sign terms
Cardiac vital sign terms
Temperature vital sign terms
Blood pressure vital sign terms
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A glass tube containing a mercury like liquid used to measure body temperature

What is a clinical thermometer?

100
Difficulty breathing
What is dyspnea?
100
The difference between the rate of an apical pulse and the rate of a radial pulse.
What is a pulse deficit?
100
A measurement of the body temperature that is taken under the arms.
What is an axillary temperature?
100
A measurement of the force exerted against the arterial walls during contraction and relaxation of the heart.
What is blood pressure?
200

A device used to measures and displays body temperature in easy to read numbers.

What is an electronic thermometer?

200
Periods of dyspnea followed by periods of apnea.
What is Cheyne-stokes?
200
A slower than normal heart rate.
What is bradycardia?
200
A body temperature that is measured at the mouth.
What is an oral temperature?
200
Lower than normal blood pressure.
What is hypotension?
300

A device used to measure blood pressure in mm mercury pressure.

What is a sphygmomanometer?

300
Severe dyspnea in any position other than sitting or standing.
What is orthopnea?
300
An irregular heart rhythm.
What is an arrhythmia?
300
The measurement of the tympanic body temperature that is done with a special thermometer.
What is an aural temperature?
300
The measurement of the arterial wall pressure exerted during cardiac rest.
What is diastolic?
400
A specialized electronic thermometer that measures temperature at the temporal site.
What is temporal scanning thermometer?
400

The quality of the respirations.

What is character?

400
A pulse taken using a stethoscope to measure and near the apex of the heart.
What is an apical pulse?
400
The measurement of the balance between heat lost and heat produced by the body.
What is temperature?
400
The measured difference between systolic pressure and diastolic pressure.
What is pulse pressure?
500
A specialized electronic themometer that records aural temperature.
What is a tympanic thermometer?
500
Faster than normal respiratory rate.
What is tachypnea?
500
The pressure of blood felt against the wall of an arteryas it beats.
What is a pulse?
500
Bubbly or noisy sound caused by fluid or mucous in the air passages.
What is rales?
500
The measurement of pressure exerted on the arterial walls during contraction of the heart.
What is systolic?
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