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Criado por Kelly Winstanley
aproximadamente 8 anos atrás
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Questão | Responda |
TACHYCARDIA | AN ABNORMALLY HIGH HEART RATE |
BRADYCARDIA | AN ABNORMALLY LOW HEART RATE |
TACHYPNOEA | AN ABNORMALLY HIGH RESPIRATORY RATE |
BRADYPNOEA | AN ABNORMALLY LOW RESPIRATORY RATE |
HYPOXIA | DEFICIENCY IN OXYGEN |
HYPERTHERMIA | AN ABNORMALLY HIGH BODY TEMPERATURE |
HYPOTHERMIA | AN ABNORMALLY LOW BODY TEMPERATURE |
PYREXIA | A HIGH BODY TEMERATURE, TYPICALLY ASSOCIATED WITH FEVER OR INFECTION (THOUGH CAN BE IDIOPATHIC) |
IDIOPATHIC | USED TO DESCRIBE A CONDITION FOR WHICH THE CAUSE IS UNKNOWN (e.g. idiopathic pain) |
HYPERTENSION | HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE |
HYPOTENSION | LOW BLOOD PRESSURE |
SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE | THE PRESSURE WHEN THE HEART IS CONTRACTING |
DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE | THE PRESSURE WHEN THE HEART IS BETWEEN CONTRACTIONS |
POLYURIA | INCREASED URINARY OUTPUT |
OLIGURIA | REDUCED URINARY OUTPUT |
ANURIA | CESSATION OF URINE PRODUCTION |
CESSATION | ENDING OR STOPPING |
DYSURIA | DIFFICULTY PASSING URINE |
STRANGURIA | DIFFICULT URINATION, BUT COUPLED WITH A STRONG DESIRE TO URINATE. ASSOCIATED COMMONLY WITH INFLAMMATION AND URETHRAL BLOCKAGE |
CYSTITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER TISSUES |
NOCTURIA | URINATING OVERNIGHT |
VOMITING | AN ACTIVE PROCESS INVOLVING FORCEFUL EXPULSION OF THE STOMACH CONTENTS |
REGURGITATION | A PASSIVE PROCESS INVOLVING UNDIGESTED, OR PARTIALLY DIGESTION FOOD BEING EXPELLED FOR THE STOMACH AND OESOPHAGUS |
GASTRITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH LINING |
ENTERITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE LINING OF THE INTESTINES |
GASTROENTERITIS | INFLAMATION OF THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES |
DIARRHOEA | PRODUCTION OF LOOSE, WATERY FAECES |
STEATORRHOEA | AN ABNORMALLY HIGH FAT CONTENT IN THE FAECES, GIVING THEM A PALE 'MASHED POTATO' LIKE APPEARANCE |
CONSTIPATION | IMPACTION OF THE FAECES, MAKING IT DIFFICULT FOR THE ANIMAL TO PASS THEM COMFORTABLY |
MELAENA | DIGESTED BLOOD IN THE FAECES, CAUSING THEM TO HAVE A DARK, TARRY APPEARANCE. INDICATIVE OF A BLEED HIGH IN THE DIGESTIVE TRACT |
HAEMATOCHEZIA | THE PRESENCE OF FRESH, UNDIGESTED BLOOD IN THE FAECES. INDICATIVE OF A BLEED IN THE LOWER DIGESTIVE TRACT |
TENESMUS | INAFFECTUAL STRAINING TO ELIMINATE |
ELIMINATION | THE PASSING OF INDIGESTIBLE OR WASTE PRODUCTS FROM THE BODY (e.g. urine, faeces, vomit) |
SYNCOPE | FAINTING |
TUSSIS | COUGHING |
HYPOSTATIC PNEUMONIA | GATHERING OF FLUID IN THE LUNGS DUE TO A LACK OF NORMAL BREATH MOVEMENT OR PROLONGED PERIODS OF PRESSURE |
ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA | A PNEUMONIA CAUSED BY THE INHALATION OF FOREIGN MATERIAL (most commonly food or vomitus) |
CYANOSIS | BLUE COLOURED MUCOUS MEMBRANES DUE TO HYPOXIA |
ICTERUS | JAUNDICE |
MICTURITION | URINATION |
HAEMATURIA | BLOOD IN THE URINE |
MENTATION | AN ANIMALS APPARENT MENTAL STATE (e.g. depressed, anxious) |
LETHARGY | A LACK OF ENERGY OR WILLINGNESS TO INTERACT |
MALAISE | A GENERAL SENSE OF FEELING UNWELL WITH NO IMMEDIATELY OBVIOUS CAUSE |
ANOREXIA | A LOSS OF APPETITE |
DYSPHAGIA | DIFFICULTY EATING OR SWALLOWING |
PICA | A DEPRAVED APPETITE RESULTING IN THE CONSUMPTION OF NON-FOOD ITEMS/MATERIALS |
COPROPHAGIA | EATING OF FAECES. |
PREHENSION | THE ACT OF GRASPING OR PICKING UP FOOD |
MASTICATION | CHEWING |
HAEMATEMESIS | VOMIT CONTAINING BLOOD |
STERCORACEOUS VOMITING | THE VOMITING OF FAECAL MATTER |
GAIT | THE WAY IN WHICH AN ANIMAL MOVES |
ATAXIA | UNCO-ORDINATED MOVEMENTS |
LAMENESS | UNABLE TO WALK WITHOUT DIFFICULTY. DEGREE OF LAMENESS IS OFTEN MEASURED ON A SCALE OF 1-10 |
POLYDIPSIA | INCREASED DRINKING |
POLYPHAGIA | INCREASED EATING OR APPETITE |
DEHYDRATION | A LOSS OF FLUIDS FROM ALL COMPARTMENTS OF THE BODY |
HYPOVOLAEMIA | A LOSS OF FLUID FROM WITHIN THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM |
AUSCULTATION | USING A STETHOSCOPE TO LISTEN TO INTERNAL ORGANS (e.g. heart, lung and gut sounds) |
PALPATION | EXAMINATION USING TOUCH |
ALLODYNIA | A NON-NOXIOUS STIMULI ELICITS A GENUINE PAIN RESPONSE |
HYPERALGESIA | A MODERATELY UNCOMFORTABLE STIMULI ELICITS A DISPROPORTIONATE PAIN RESPONSE |
PARAPLEGIA | PARALYSIS OF THE HINDLIMBS |
TETRAPLEGIA/QUADRIPLEGIA | PARALYSIS OF ALL FOUR LIMBS |
HEMIPLEGIA | PARALYSIS OF ONE SIDE OF THE BODY |
PSEUDOCYESIS | FALSE/PHANTOM PREGNANCY |
BLEPHAROSPASM | KEEPING THE EYE CLOSED, OR BLINKING VERY RAPIDLY |
NOCTURNAL | ACTIVE AT NIGHT |
CREPUSCULAR | ACTIVE DURING DAWN AND DUSK |
DIURNAL | ACTIVE DURING THE DAY |
ARBOREAL | TREE DWELLING |
TERRESTRIAL | LAND DWELLING |
ZOONOSIS | AN INFECTION THAT CAN BE TRANSFERRED FROM ANIMAL TO HUMAN |
ANTHROPONOSIS | AN INFECTION THAT CAN BE TRANSMITTED FROM HUMAN TO ANIMAL |
PATHOGEN | A DISEASE CAUSING ORGANISM |
ANTIBODY | AN IMMUNE DEFENCE MOLECULE, PRODUCED IN RESPONSE TO AN ANTIGEN |
ANTIGEN | A TOXIC OR FOREIGN SUBSTANCE THAT STIMULATES AN IMMUNE RESPONSE FROM THE BODY |
NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION | AN INFECTION CONTRACTED WITHIN THE HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT |
ANTHELMINTIC | A DRUG USED TO ELIMINATE WORMS (HELMINTHS) |
ECDYSIS | THE PROCESS OF SHEDDING, OBSERVED IN REPTILES |
DYSECDYSIS | DIFFICULTY SHEDDING |
PARAPHIMOSIS | INABILITY TO RETRACT THE PENIS BACK IN TO THE PREPUCE |
PETECHIAL HAEMORRHAGE | HAEMORRHAGE FROM SUPERFICIAL CAPILLARIES, GIVING THE APPEARANCE OF PIN PRICK BLEEDS. ASSOCIATED MOST COMMONLY WITH CLOTTING DYSFUNCTION AND OBSERVED ON THE MUCOUS MEMBRANES |
PROPTOSIS | ABNORMAL PROTRUSION OF THE EYES |
CONJUNCTIVITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE CONJUNCTIVA OF THE EYE |
ENTROPION | WHEN THE EYELID IS ROLLED INWARDS, CAUSING IRRITATION OF THE CORNEA |
ECTROPION | WHEN THE EYELID IS ROLLED OUTWARDS, CAUSING OCULAR DRYNESS AND INCREASED RISK OF FOREIGN MATERIAL |
ANISOCORIA | PUPILS OF UNEQUAL SIZE |
PLAQUE | THE THIN FILM COATING TEETH THAT CONSISTS OF BACTERIA AND MICROSCOPIC FOOD PARTICLES. GIVEN TIME IT WILL DEVELOP IN TO TARTAR. |
GINGIVITIS | INFLAMMATION OF THE GUMS |
MALOCCLUSION | MISALIGNMENT OF THE UPPER AND LOWER JAW, OFTEN RESULTING IN ABNORMAL DENTITION. |
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