Respiratory
Adventitious Sounds
What are abnormal Breath sounds
Stenosis
What is the narrowing of an arterial blood vessel.
Turgor
What is if skin sags instead of bouncing right back in place could indicate dehydration
Atrophied
What is a muscle has reduced in size, usually feels soft and boggy when palpated
Ptosis
What is drooping of lid over the eyeball
Dysrhythmia
What is failure for the heart to beat at regular successive intervals
Indurated
What is hardened texture of the skin
Hypotonicity
What is a muscle that has little tone (feels flabby)
Percussion
What is tapping the skin with the fingers to vibrate underlying tissues and organs. What is palpation?
Orthopnea
What is dyspnea during exertion or at rest
Ventricular Gallop
What is an S3 sound which occurs after S2 - A premature rush of blood into a ventricle that is stiff or dilated as a result of heart failure and hypertension (HTN)
Edema
What is areas of skin become swollen from a buildup of fluid in the tissues.
Peristalsis
What is movement of content through the intestines
Striae
What are stretch marks
Bronchovesicular
What are normal lung sounds created by air moving through large airways
Murmurs
What are sustained swishing or blowing sounds heard at the beginning, middle, or end of the systolic or diastolic phase.
Alopecia
What is hair loss or thinning of hair
Glasgow Coma Scale & Orientation
What is evaluation of patient's neurological status: Eye, Verbal, & Motor, Highest score:15 What is your name and birthdate?, Where are you?, What day is this?, Can you move your toes?
Syncope
What is fainting or passing out.
Kyphosis
What is exaggeration of the posterior curvature of the thoracic spine
Thrill
What is a continuous palpable sensation that resembles the purring of a cat. Where do you hear this where it is normal?
Acronym for checking for skin cancer
ABCD: Asymmetry, Border, Color, Diameter
Aphasia
What is when communication is clearly ineffective. (Receptive aphasia: Person cannot understand written or verbal speech. Expressive Aphasia: Cannot write or speak appropriately when trying to communicate)
Diaphoresis
What is sweating (found with alcoholics or sedative use that they are weaning off)