Medterms Quiz(skin colors)

• abrasions


  scraped areas
• clammy


  skin is cool and moist

  ex) fever
• cyanotic (cyanosis)

  blue color of skin
• edema

  fluid in the tissues
• fatigue

  tired
• flushed

  red color of the skin
• incoherent

  unaware of person, place, time, and event
• jaundice

  yellowish color to skin and whites of eyes
• lesions

  sores(eruption in skin like scabs)
• lethargic


  sleepy
• oriented


  alert to person, place, time, and event
• pallor

  white color to skin
• syncope


  fainting
• vertigo


  dizziness
• coma

  deep sleep, unaware of person, place, time, and event
• emesis


  vomit
• Ca


  cancer
• malignant


  cancerous tumor
• aphasia 


  no speech
• flatus


  gas from intestines or stomach
• FUO


  fever of undetermined origin
• afebrile


  no fever
• geriatrics


  care of the elderly
• CVA

  cerebrovascular accident
• px


  prognosis
• cath


  catheter
• qod


  every other day
• nausea

  feeling urge to vomit
• artery


  blood vessel, away from heart
• SOB


  shortness of breath
• asepsis


  clean technique
• void


  to urinate
• graduate


  calibrated measuring cup
• lethargic 


  tired, lack of energy
• alopecia


  hair loss
• self-esteem


  how you feel about yourself
• d/c


  discontinue
• R


  respiration/rectal
• peristalsis


  intestine mobility, contraction/relaxation of muscle tissue
• aspiration


  something enters airway, food/liquid