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137 nursing skill as

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eupnea   normal breathing  
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dyspnea   difficulty breathing  
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tachypnea   fast breathing  
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cheyne stokes   apnea with rapid respiration  
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apnea   absence of breathing  
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kussmaul's   fast deep respirations (normally with diabetic acidosis  
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biots   increased intercranial presure; short breaths with rapid respiration  
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crackles   fine, coarse sounds. Similar to sound produced by rubbing hairs between the fingers close to ear  
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ronchi   coarse, low pitched, sonorous, rattling sounds caused by secretions in the larger air passages  
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pleural friction rub   grating or scratchy sound similar to creaking shoe leather or opening a squeky door.  
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stridor   croaking sound heard when there is partial obstruction of the upper air passages  
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wheezes   whistling, musical, high pitched sound produced by air being forced through a narrow pathway  
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subjective   what the patient tells you  
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objective   observation  
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ascites   abnormal accumulation of serous fluid within the peritoneal cavity  
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bruit   abnormal sound heard on auscultation, a kind of swishing sound  
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ecchymosis   blue or purplish patch on the skin or mucouse membrane that is not elevated; bruising  
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cyanosis   a bluish tinge to the skin, nail beds, or mucous membranes, indicating a significant decrease in oxygenation  
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erythema   redness of the skin caused by congestion of the capillaries in the lower layers of the skin that occurs with any skin injury, infection or inflammation  
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extension posture   arms are stiffly extended, adducted, and hyperpronated with hyperextension of the legs and plantar flexion of the feet; indicates disruption of the motor fibers in the midbrain and brainstem  
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fissure   a narrow slit  
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flexion posture   internal rotation and adduction of the arms with flexion of the elbows, wrists and fingers, resulting from neurologic injury and interruption of voluntary motor tracts; extension of the legs may also be seen  
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guaiac   test for blood in the stool  
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gurgles   wet sounds heard when auscultating the lungs; new term for rhonchi; it also occurs in the bowel  
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patent   freely open  
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petechiae   pinpoint, round, purplish red spots that are not raised, caused by intradermal or submucosal hemorrhage  
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rinne test   a test to compare bone and air conduction of sound, preformed with a tuning fork  
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sanguineous   body  
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