History, Observation, and Palpation Terms
Across
- 2. A decrease in muscle size.
- 3. Movement patterns.
- 5. The means in which a patient is positioned.
- 7. Touching the patient's body during examination.
- 10. To bend at the ends, with a sideways pressure resulting in the middle of the bone.
- 11. An associated problem that is either visible or measureable by the clinician.
- 12. A general term for a collection of fluid.
- 13. Tapping or bumping a body part to produce a shock wave as a means of testing for fracture.
- 16. Body parts being equal or the same from one side to the other.
- 18. The process of investigating what may be wrong with a patient.
- 21. One side.
- 23. To pull apart.
- 24. The patient reporting that it hurts to be touched.
- 25. Process of obtaining a pertinent set of background information.
Down
- 1. Both sides of the body.
- 4. The opposite side.
- 6. A formal and objective determination of a patient's condition.
- 8. An unofficial impression of what may be wrong with a patient.
- 9. Visually inspecting the affected and surrounding body parts for abnormalities.
- 12. A feeling or problem that is reported by the patient, which cannot always be seen or measured by the clinician.
- 14. To squeeze together.
- 15. A crunching, grinding, or creaking feeling.
- 17. Protecting a body part.
- 19. Something that is crooked or displaced.
- 20. A divot, depression, or softness within a structure.
- 22. A term meaning lengthwise, or from end to end.