| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Afebrile | Without fever, apyrexia; 36-38 C |
| Febrile | Fever, temperator greater than 38C or 100.4 F |
| Normotensive | normal arterile blood pressure |
| Hypertensive | Increased blood pressure: greater than 140/90 (stage 1) 160/100 (stage2) |
| Hypotensive | low blood pressure |
| Orthostatic hypotension | systolic blood pressure decease of 20 or diastolic blood pressure decrease of 10 with increased heart rate when standing for 3 mins. |
| Pulse pressure | difference between sytolic and diastolic BP (30-55) |
| Respirator rate normal | 12-20 breaths per minute |
| General order | Inspection, palpate, percuss, auscultate |
| Abdominal order | Inpect, auscultate, percuss, palpate |
| Angular cheilosis | Reddish inflammation of the lips or lips and production of fissures that radiate from the angles of the mouth |
| anosmia | loss of sense of smell (CN 1) or an obstruciton |
| caries | microbial destruction or necrosis of the teeth |
| cheilitis | inflammation of the lips or of a lip |
| cholesteatoma | Mess of keratinizaing squamous epithelium and cholesterol in the middle ear, caused by chronic otitis media |
| Epistaxis | bleeding form the nose |
| epstein pearls | Multiple small, white, epithelial inclusion cysts found int he midlined of the palate in newborn infants |
| fordyce spots | numerous small, yellowish-brown bodies or granuels on the inner surface and vermilion border of the lips, ectopic sebaceous glands |
| gingivitis | inflammation of the gingiva |
| koplik spots | small red spots on the buccal mucous membrane with a bluish white speck in the center, occuring before measles, before skin eruption and are a pathognomic sign of the disease |
| leukoplakia | white patch of the oral mucuous membranethat can't be whiped off and can't be diagnosed. Smooth irregular in size and shape, hard, and occasionally fissured. (pipe smoking) |
| otitis externa | inflammation of the external auditory canal, usually due to bacterial or fungal infections |
| otitis media | inflammation/infection of middle ear/ tympanum |
| pharyngitis | inflammation/infection of the mucous membrane and underlying parts of the pharynx |
| presbyscusis | pregressive loss of hearing due to aging |
| rhinitis | inflammation of nasal mucous membrane |
| rhinorrhea | discharge from nasal mucous membrane |
| tinnitis | a sensation of noises in the ear (ringing, whistling, booming) |
| tophi | desposits of cyrstallized monosodium urate in person with gout |
| torus mandibularis | bony purtubulence on the lingual aspect of the lower jaw in the canine premolar region |
| tympanoscleroiss | dense connective tissue in the middle ear, resulting in hearing loss if oricles are involved |
| Stenson's ducts | Parotid gland ducts at site of upper 2nd molar |
| Whartons ducts | Sublingal gland ducts on either side of frenulum |
| Conductive hearing loss | Weber test laterilizes to deaf ear, Reine test - in affected air (bone condution longer than air conduction) |
| Sensorial hearing loss | Weber test laterilizes to better ear, Reine test + (air longer than bone but in 2/1 ration) |
| Weber test | 510 fork on top of head (should stop hearing at same time) |
| Rinne test | Bone vs. air, by bone first then by air |
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