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GENERAL OBSERVATION - Correct Answer-A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF CLIENT DURING EXAMINATION, NOTHING DETAILED INSPECTION - Correct Answer-A method of physical examination by which the patient is visually systematically examine for appearance, structure, function, and behavior AUSCULTATION - Correct Answer-listening to sounds within the body (usually with a stethoscope) PALPATION - Correct Answer-An examination technique in which the examiner's hands are used to feel the texture, size, consistency, and location of certain body parts. PERCUSSION - Correct Answer-A diagnostic technique that uses tapping on the body to differentiate air, solids, and fluids ACUTE DISEASE - Correct Answer-Disease having a rapid onset, severe symptoms, and a short course or duration CHRONIC DISEASE - Correct Answer-a disease that develops gradually and continues over a long period of time ACUITY - Correct Answer-Sharp vision or perception characterized by the ability to resolve fine detail LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS - Correct Answer-LOC, STATE OF AWARENESS OF SELF AND ENVIRONMENT ALERT - Correct Answer-Awake or readily aroused, oriented, fully aware of external and internal stimuli and responds appropriately, conducts meaningful interpersonal interactions LETHARGIC - Correct Answer-acting in an indifferent or slow, sluggish manner OBTUNDED - Correct Answer-Sleeps most of the time, difficult to arouse, needs loud shout or vigorous shake, acts confused when aroused, speech mumbled and incoherent STUPOROUS - Correct Answer-is in a sleeplike state and can be aroused only w/ painful stimulus SEMICOMATOSE - Correct Answer-partially in a coma

COMATOSE - Correct Answer-in a state of deep and usually prolonged unconsciousness GLASGOW COMA SCALE - Correct Answer-Neurological screening test that measures a client's best verbal, motor & eye response to stimuli FATIGUE - Correct Answer-Extreme tiredness, typically resulting from mental or physical exertion or illness ANOREXIA - Correct Answer-An eating disorder characterized by an obstinate and willful refusal to eat, a distorted body image, and an intense fear of being fat MALAISE - Correct Answer-A vague feeling of bodily discomfort, as at the beginning of an illness EMACIATION - Correct Answer-Excessive leanness caused by disease or lack of nutrition PERRLA - Correct Answer-PUPILS EQUAL, ROUND, REACTIVE TO LIGHT AND ACCOMMODATION ACCOMMODATION - Correct Answer-Ability to adjust the focus of vision at a range of distances DIPLOPIA - Correct Answer-DOUBLE VISION STRABISMUS - Correct Answer-(squint, crossed eye) disparity of the eye axes DYSPNEA - Correct Answer-Difficult or labored breathing; shortness of breath APNEA - Correct Answer-Absence of breathing TACHYCARDIA - Correct Answer-Abnormally rapid heartbeat greater than 100 beats/minute. BRADYCARDIA - Correct Answer-A pulse rate less than 60 beats per minute (bpm) in an adult ( slow heart rate) ADVENTITIOUS BREATH SOUNDS - Correct Answer-Abnormal sound, including sibilant wheezes (formally wheezes), sonorous wheezes (formally ronchi), fine and course crackles (formally rales), pleural friction rubs and stridor CRACKLES - Correct Answer-(rales) abnormal, discontinuous, adventitious lung sounds heard on inspiration

HOMAN SIGN - Correct Answer-Early sign of thrombophlebitis of the deep veins of the calf in which there are complaints of pain when the leg is in extension and the foot is dorsiflexed. MACULE - Correct Answer-A circumscribed, flat, nonpalpable change in skin color PAPULE - Correct Answer-A papule is a small solid elevation of the skin less than 0.5cm in diameter. NODULE - Correct Answer-A small lump VESICLE - Correct Answer-A membrane bound sac that contains materials involved in transport of the cell. PUSTULE - Correct Answer-A small inflamed elevation of skin containing pus. WHEAL - Correct Answer-A circumscribed elevation of the skin caused by escape of serum into the dermis. The larger the amount of edema, teh paler the wheal on a red to pale color continuum PLAQUE - Correct Answer-(pathology) a small abnormal patch on or inside the body CYST - Correct Answer-CLOSED SAC EXCORIATION - Correct Answer-(n.) a strong denunciation; the act or state of stripping or wearing off the skin FISSURE - Correct Answer-TYPE OF SKIN LESION ULCER - Correct Answer-An open sore on the skin or mucous membrane that can bleed and scar and is sometimes accompanied by infection KELOID - Correct Answer-SCAR