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Health Care
11th Grade
04/07/2009

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Term
Septum
Definition
A thin wall-like structure that divides the two cavities or masses of soft tissue, as the nasal septum divides the nostrils.
Term
Laryngopharynx
Definition
posterior to the larnx.
(voice box)
Term
Mediastinum
Definition
space between the lungs.
Term
pleura
Definition
double layered membrane which envolopes the lungs and lines the thoracic cavity.
Term
Auscultation
Definition
sounds of the chest cavity with a sethascope.
Term
percussion
Definition
gentley tapping the chest with the fingers to determine size position or consistancey of the underlying structure, tissie.
Term
bronchopneumonia.pneumonia
Definition
inflammatory disease of the lungs!
Term
hemoptysis
Definition
spitting blood
Term
anoxia/hypoxia
Definition
absence or deficiancy of oxygen in the tissue
Term
anomiemia.hypoxemia
Definition
absence or deficiancy of oxygen in the blood
Term
Asphyxia
Definition
without a pulse.
Term
atelectasis
Definition
a collapsed or airless state of the lung which maybe acute or chronic.
Term
epistaxis
Definition
nose bleed.
Term
pertussis
Definition
infectious disease. whooping cough
Term
stridor
Definition
abnormal sound caused by a spasm ir swelling of the larynx
Term
ABG's
Definition
ARTERIAL BLOOD GASES
Term
COPD
Definition
CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE
Term
CPR
Definition
CARDIACPULMONARY RESISITATION
Term
VEIN
Definition
BLOOD VESSEL WHICH CARRIES BLOOD AWAY FROM THE HEART
Term
VENA CAVA
Definition
LARGEST VEINS
Term
VENTRICLE
Definition
ONE OF THE TWO LOWER CHAMBERS OF THE HEART, BLLOD EXITS THE HEART FROM THE VENTRICLES
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