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Nursing Concepts
Concepts for Nursing Practice - NCMC
Term | Definition |
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anxiety | a subjectively distressful experience activated by the perception of threat, which has both a potential psychological and physiologic etiology and expression. |
mood | the way a person feels |
affect | observable response a person has to their own feelings |
cognition | the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses |
memory | the retention of past experiences and learning |
mobility | state or quality of being mobile or movable |
infection | the invasion and multiplication of microorganisms in body tissues, which may be clinically unapparent or result in local cellular injury due to competitive metabolism, toxins, intra-cellular replication or antigen-antibody response |
virus | a pathogen with a nucleic acid within a protein shell and requires invasion of a host for replication. |
inflammation | an immunologic defense against tissue injury, infection, or allergy |