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NURS202 Final Pt1
Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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miosis/miotics | constriction drugs that make the pupil contract |
mydriasis/mydriatics | dilation drugs that make the pupil dilate |
agnosia | inability to interpret or recognize familiar/common objects through senses |
visual agnosia | see a pencil but can't recall it's a pencil occipital lobe injury |
auditory agnosia | hear a bell but can't tell you what it is temporal lobe injury (lateral and superior portion) |
tactile agnosia | inability to recognize objects by touch, injury to parietal lobe |
diplopia | double vision; seeing one object as two |
aphasia | deficiency in language function |
expressive aphasia | can understand written and spoken but cannot speak or has hard time finding the words injury to frontal cerebral area |
receptive aphasia | unable to understand spoken or written word; can speak but may not make sense or be incomprehensible injury to temporal lobe "Wernicke's aphasia" |
mixed aphasia | both expressive and receptive; global aphasia |
homonymous hemianopsia | loss of vision of the right or left halves of the visual field of both eyes. Also called lateral hemianopsia. |
dysarthia | imperfect articulation of speech due to paralysis of the speech muscles (CN V) |
cycloplegia/cycloplegics | paralysis of accommodation drugs that paralyze the ciliary body and have mydriatic properties |
myopia | nearsightedness |
hyperopia | farsightedness |
dysphagia | difficulty swallowing |
presbycusis | age related hearing loss |
legal blindness | vision = or < 20/200 with corrective would need to stand 20ft away from something to see same thing that someone with normal vision could see from 200ft away |
disuse syndrome | The state in which a person is experiencing or at risk for deterioration of body systems or altered functioning as the result of prescribed or unavoidable musculoskeletal inactivity |
glaucoma | loss of vision due to increased IOP |