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Question | Answer |
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The passage of dry hard stool. | Constipation |
A Rapid heart rate, over 100 beats per min | Tachycardia |
Period or heart muscle relaxation. | Diastole |
The pulse used when taking a blood pressure | Brachial |
Living Will | Document stating a person's wishes about health care matters when they are unable to make their own decisions any longer. |
Rigor mortis | Stiffness or rigidity of skeletal muscles that occurs after death. |
Gas or air passed through the anus | Flatus |
Powerfull and imprtanta communication technigues used with a dying person | listening and touch |
Nocturia | Frequent urinations at night |
blood in the urine | hematuria |
cereball palsy | Brain defext that results in abnormal body movements, pisture, and coordinations. |
mental retardation | Low intellectual functioning |
They most common mental health problem in older persons | Depression |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome | Disease caused by HIV |
Dehydration | Excessive loss of water from tissues |
The amount of heat in the body;Balance between the amount of heat produced and amount lost by the body | Body temperature |
Black, tarry stool | Melena |
Hypertension | bs>140/90 mmHg |