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Nursing Terms-Week10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Active Transport | Movement of ions or molecules across cell membranes, usually against a pressure gradient and with expenditure of metabolic energy |
| Adaptation | Adjustment of living with other living things and environmental conditions |
| Anxiety | Vague sense of impending doom or apprehension precipitated by new or unknown experiences |
| Burnout | Behaviors exhibited as the results or prolonged occupational stress |
| Coping Mechanism | Patterns of behavior used to neutralize, deny or counteract anxiety |
| Colloid Osmotic Pressure | Pressure exerted by plasma proteins on permeable membranes in the body |
| Crisis | Occurs when coping and defense mechanism are no longer effective, resulting in high levels of anxiety and inability to function normally |
| Defense Mechanisms | Forms of self-deception; unconscious process the self uses to protect itself from anxiety or threats to self-esteem |
| Diffusion | Tendency of solutes to move freely throughout a solvent from an area of high concentration to low |
| Edema | Accumulation of fluid in extracellular spaces |
| Fight or Flight Response | The body prepares itself against threat, to either resist(fight)or evade (flight)the danger |
| Filtration | Passage of a fluid through a permeable membrane whose spaces do not allow certain solutes to pass (high to low) |
| General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) | Biochemical model of stress describing the body's general response to stress |
| Homeostasis | Various mechanisms respond to changes in the internal or external environment to maintain a balanced state |
| Hypotonic | having a lesser concentration than the solution with which it is compared to |
| Isotonic | Having about the same concentration as the solution with which it is compared to |
| Local Adaptation Syndrome (LAS) | Localized response of the body to stress; precipitated by trauma |
| Osmosis | Passage of a solvent through a semipermeable membrane from low concentration to high |
| Psychosomatic Disorder | Physiologic alterations and illness believed to be due to psychological influences |
| Stress | Condition in which the human system responds to change in its normal balanced state |
| Stressor | Anything causing a person to experience stress; change in the balanced state |
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