Elsevier's Medical Terminology for the Practicing Nurse: In by S.F. Vanderwerf

By S.F. Vanderwerf

Clinical nomenclature is constantly evolving and altering. Its goal is to accomplish complete clinical interplay between all those that percentage this self-discipline. during their paintings, specialist nurses are required to understand and interpret scientific terminology. This dictionary provides a correlation of clinical and nursing phrases as mirrored in clinical perform and nursing arts. additionally incorporated, is a survey of little-used and/or more recent terminology which extra articulately records scientific findings. Readers of this dictionary could be inspired to embody scientific terminology as a career-long self-discipline with a objective.

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Blennuria Mucus present in the urine. blepharadenitis Blepharoadenitis — inflammation of the sebaceous glands. blepharal Reference to the eyelid(s). blepharectomy Surgical excision of the eyelid. blepharedema Swelling of the eyelid(s). blepharitis Lippitude — inflammation of the eye(s).

Nodosa. arthroclasia Surgical freeing the adhesions of an arthralgia Joint pain. ankalosed joint to allow motion. arthrectomy Surgical excision of a joint. arthrodesis Surgically achieved ankylosis to proarthredema Edema within the joint. duce immobilization of a joint. arthrempyesis Suppuration within a joint. arthrodynia Arthroneuralgia, joint pain. arthritide Dermatitis caused by gout or arthritis. arthrodysplasia Inherited deformity of the arthritis Painful inflammation of a joint(s), with joint(s).

Assonance The similarity of sounds. ) astasia Motor dyskinesia, which prevents erect sitting/standing. astasia-abasia Hysterical ataxia, in which inco ordinated leg movements can be observed while the patient is supine/seated. astereognosis The inability to identify objects by touch. asterixis "Flapping tremor" — the exaggerated tremor caused by conditions which interfere with cerebral metabolism. asternia Congenital absence of the breastbone. asthenia Adynamia — weakness originating in cerebellar/muscular pathology.

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