Physical Assessment
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Created by:
cubbyr54 on January 29, 2009
Subjects:
Physicals, Assessment, Nursing diagnosis
Classes:
Mgccc Nursing Class of 2014, Nursing Fundamentals, Excelsior Nursing ASN, nursingsa, HCC Coleman future nurses 2013, Hogwart's School of Nursing (see more)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 acute | begins abruptly with marked intensity |
| assessment | making an evaluation or appraisal of a patient's condition |
| auscultation | listening to sounds produced by the body |
| borborygmi | high pitched loud rushing bowel sounds |
| bruits | abnormal swishing sounds heard over organs, glands or arteries |
| chronic | Disease develops slowly and persist over long periods |
| crackles | fluid in the bronchioles and alveoli heard as crackling or bubbling on inspiration |
| disease | any disturbance of a stucture or function of the body |
| drainage | removal of fluids from a body cavity or wound. |
| dullness | percussion over a dense organ produces a thudlike sound |
| edema | swelling |
| erythema | redness |
| etiology | cause |
| exudate | fluid cells or other substances coming through pores or breaks in the skin |
| flatness | percussion over a muscle causing a soft high pitched flat sound |
| infection | invasion of microorganisms |
| inflammation | protective response of body tissues to irritation, injury or invasion by germs |
| inspection | purposeful observation |
| LOC | level of consciousness |
| neoplastic | abnormal growth of new tissue |
| objective data | signs seen by the nurse |
| subjective data | symptoms perceived by the patient |
| palpation | use of hands and sense of touch to gather information |
| percussion | use of fingertips to tap the body's surfact to produce vibration and sound |
| pruritus | itching |
| purulent | pus |
| signs | seen heard measured or felt |
| symptoms | pain, nausea, any sensation described by the patient |
| thrill | a vibrating sensation along an artery |
| turgor | Elasticity of the skin |
| tympany | drumlike sound over a hollow organ |
| wheezes | sounds produced by movement of air through narrowed passages in the traceobronchial tubes |
| sibilant | high pitched musical wheezes |
| sonorous | low pitched coarse gurgling or snoring |
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