Patient Assessment Terms

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Across
  1. 2. a technique in which the patient’s body is touched by the examiner’s hand
  2. 4. pressure, the difference between systolic and diastolic pressure
  3. 7. abnormally high body temperature
  4. 8. an abnormal inward curvature of the lumbar spine
  5. 11. a normal breathing pattern
  6. 14. a deep, rapid ventilatory pattern
  7. 15. febrile
  8. 16. the process of listening to the patient’s chest using a stethoscope
  9. 18. clubbing, an abnormal enlargement of the distal phalanges, usually cause by chronic hypoxemia
  10. 19. an abnormally higher heart rate
  11. 22. an abnormally low body temperature
  12. 25. the pressure measured at the time the ventricles are contracting
  13. 26. a technique in which the examiner taps on the patient’s body either directly or indirectly
  14. 27. chest, a chest deformity in which the sternum is depressed, compressing the lungs
  15. 28. blades, scapulae
  16. 30. an abnormally high blood pressure
  17. 31. respiration, an abnormal ventilatory pattern that is characterized by irregular breathing with periods of apnea
  18. 32. angle, a bony ridge formed at the junction of the manubrium and the body of the sternum
Down
  1. 1. an abnormal curvature of the spine in which both kyphosis and scoliosis are present
  2. 3. a ventilatory pattern of shallow respirations
  3. 5. chest, an abnormal chest conformation characterized by an increase in the anterior-posterior diameter
  4. 6. normal temp
  5. 9. an abnormally low heart rate
  6. 10. acidosis, acidosis produced as a result of the renal system minor producing enough biocarbonate, thus lowering the blood’s pH
  7. 12. the absence or cessation of breathing
  8. 13. an abnormal lateral curvature of the spine
  9. 17. a faster than normal respiratory rate
  10. 20. a lower than normal respiratory rate
  11. 21. the pressure in the arterial system when the ventricles are at rest
  12. 23. an abnormally low blood pressure
  13. 24. chest, a chest deformity in which the sternum projects outward
  14. 29. excavatum, an abnormal conformation of the sternum in which it is depressed inward