Abrasion - ✔✔ Scrape of the skin due to something abrasive
Acute - ✔✔ New, usually of rapid onset and of concern (opposite of
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Ambulate - ✔✔ To walk from place to place
Anterior - ✔✔ Located towards the front of the body
Artery - ✔✔ Blood vessel carrying blood away from the heart
Ausculate - ✔✔ Listening with a stethoscope
Benign - ✔✔ Normal, of no danger to healthy
Bony Tenderness - ✔✔ Pain elicited by pressing on a bone, rather than soft tissue
Bradycardia - ✔✔ Slow heart rate (less than 60 bpm)
Cardiomegaly - ✔✔ Enlarged heart
Cholecystitis - ✔✔ Inflammation of the cholecyst (gall bladder)
Chronic - ✔✔ Long standing, constant (opposite of acute)
COPD - ✔✔ Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Coronary Artery - ✔✔ The artery that supplies heart tissue with blood
Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) - ✔✔ Aka "stroke"; lack of blood supply to brain causing brain damage
Diaphoresis - ✔✔ Sweating
Diffuse - ✔✔ Everywhere (opposite of focal)
Distal - ✔✔ Farther from the trunk of the body
Deep Vein Thrombosis - ✔✔ A blood clot in a deep vein, often an extremity
Dyspnea - ✔✔ Problems with breathing
Dysuria - ✔✔ Painful urination
Ecchymosis - ✔✔ A bruise
Edema - ✔✔ Swelling
Emesis - ✔✔ Vomiting
Epistaxis - ✔✔ Nose bleed
Erythema - ✔✔ Redness
Febrile - ✔✔ Elevated body temperature; fever (indicative of infection)
Focal - ✔✔ Localized to one specific area
Grossly - ✔✔ Obviously; a lot; wholly
Hematemesis - ✔✔ Very large amounts of blood in vomit
Hematuria - ✔✔ Very large amounts of blood in urine
Hemoptysis - ✔✔ Coughing up very large amounts of blood
Hemorrhage - ✔✔ Excessive or profuse bleeding
Hepatomegaly - ✔✔ Enlarged liver
Hypertension - ✔✔ High blood pressure
Hypotension - ✔✔ Low blood pressure
Hypoxia - ✔✔ Low oxygen saturation of the body; not enough oxygen in the blood
Incontinence - ✔✔ Accidentally passing urine or stool
Infarct - ✔✔ Dead tissue due to lack of blood supply
Inferior - ✔✔ Lower on the body; farther from the head
Ischemia - ✔✔ Lack of blood supply
Laceration - ✔✔ Splitting of the skin due to trauma
Lateral - ✔✔ Farther from midline
Medial - ✔✔ Closer to midline
Melena - ✔✔ Black tarry stool
Myocardial Infarction - ✔✔ Death of cardiac muscle due to ischemia
Myalgia - ✔✔ Muscular pain
Oriented x3 - ✔✔ Oriented to person, place, time
Pallor - ✔✔ Pale skin
Palpate - ✔✔ Using hand to press on an area
Palpitations - ✔✔ Feeling heart-racing, pounding, or fluttering sensation in chest
Point Tenderness - ✔✔ When pressing on an area with one finger generates pain
Posterior - ✔✔ Rear of body
Proximal - ✔✔ Closer to the trunk of the body
Pruritic - ✔✔ Itchy
Pulmonary Embolism - ✔✔ Blocking of pulmonary artery due to blood clot
Purulent - ✔✔ Pus-like
Rales - ✔✔ Wet crackling noise in lungs
Rhinorrhea - ✔✔ Clear nasal discharge
Rhonchi - ✔✔ Rattling noise of mucous in the lungs
Sepsis - ✔✔ Dangerous infection of the blood
Soft Tissue Tenderness - ✔✔ Tenderness of soft tissue
STEMI - ✔✔ Real time on going death of heart tissue due to ischemia
Superior - ✔✔ Higher on the body
Supine - ✔✔ Body position lying up
Syncope - ✔✔ Fainting
Tachycardia - ✔✔ Fast heart rate (greater than 100 bpm)
Tachypnea - ✔✔ Increased breathing rate
Tenderness - ✔✔ Assessment of an area that is painful or not painful
Transient Ischemia Attack - ✔✔ Minor stroke
Vein - ✔✔ Blood vessel carrying blood toward the heart
Vertigo - ✔✔ Dizziness
Wheezing - ✔✔ High pitched sound heard in the lungs
AAA - ✔✔ Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
A Fib - ✔✔ Atrial Fibrillation
Abd - ✔✔ Abdomen
Abx - ✔✔ Antibiotics
AMA - ✔✔ Against Medical Advice
AMS - ✔✔ Altered Mental Status
ASA - ✔✔ Aspirin
BID - ✔✔ Twice Daily
Bilat LE - ✔✔ Bilateral Lower Extremities
BM - ✔✔ Bowel Movement
BP - ✔✔ Blood Pressure
CA - ✔✔ Cancer
CABG - ✔✔ Coronary Aortic Bypass Graft (open heart surgery)
CAD - ✔✔ Coronary Artery Disease (heart disease) [Show Less]