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Veterinary Nursing Terminology

Kelly Winstanley Veterinary - English 94 cards

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  1. 1TACHYCARDIAAN ABNORMALLY HIGH HEART RATE
  2. 2BRADYCARDIAAN ABNORMALLY LOW HEART RATE
  3. 3TACHYPNOEAAN ABNORMALLY HIGH RESPIRATORY RATE
  4. 4BRADYPNOEAAN ABNORMALLY LOW RESPIRATORY RATE
  5. 5HYPOXIADEFICIENCY IN OXYGEN
  6. 6HYPERTHERMIAAN ABNORMALLY HIGH BODY TEMPERATURE
  7. 7HYPOTHERMIAAN ABNORMALLY LOW BODY TEMPERATURE
  8. 8PYREXIAA HIGH BODY TEMERATURE, TYPICALLY ASSOCIATED WITH FEVER OR INFECTION (THOUGH CAN BE IDIOPATHIC)
  9. 9IDIOPATHICUSED TO DESCRIBE A CONDITION FOR WHICH THE CAUSE IS UNKNOWN (e.g. idiopathic pain)
  10. 10HYPERTENSIONHIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
  11. 11HYPOTENSIONLOW BLOOD PRESSURE
  12. 12SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURETHE PRESSURE WHEN THE HEART IS CONTRACTING
  13. 13DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURETHE PRESSURE WHEN THE HEART IS BETWEEN CONTRACTIONS
  14. 14POLYURIAINCREASED URINARY OUTPUT
  15. 15OLIGURIAREDUCED URINARY OUTPUT
  16. 16ANURIACESSATION OF URINE PRODUCTION
  17. 17CESSATIONENDING OR STOPPING
  18. 18DYSURIADIFFICULTY PASSING URINE
  19. 19STRANGURIADIFFICULT URINATION, BUT COUPLED WITH A STRONG DESIRE TO URINATE. ASSOCIATED COMMONLY WITH INFLAMMATION AND URETHRAL BLOCKAGE
  20. 20CYSTITISINFLAMMATION OF THE BLADDER TISSUES
  21. 21NOCTURIAURINATING OVERNIGHT
  22. 22VOMITINGAN ACTIVE PROCESS INVOLVING FORCEFUL EXPULSION OF THE STOMACH CONTENTS
  23. 23REGURGITATIONA PASSIVE PROCESS INVOLVING UNDIGESTED, OR PARTIALLY DIGESTION FOOD BEING EXPELLED FOR THE STOMACH AND OESOPHAGUS
  24. 24GASTRITISINFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH LINING
  25. 25ENTERITISINFLAMMATION OF THE LINING OF THE INTESTINES
  26. 26GASTROENTERITISINFLAMATION OF THE STOMACH AND INTESTINES
  27. 27DIARRHOEAPRODUCTION OF LOOSE, WATERY FAECES
  28. 28STEATORRHOEAAN ABNORMALLY HIGH FAT CONTENT IN THE FAECES, GIVING THEM A PALE 'MASHED POTATO' LIKE APPEARANCE
  29. 29CONSTIPATIONIMPACTION OF THE FAECES, MAKING IT DIFFICULT FOR THE ANIMAL TO PASS THEM COMFORTABLY
  30. 30MELAENADIGESTED BLOOD IN THE FAECES, CAUSING THEM TO HAVE A DARK, TARRY APPEARANCE. INDICATIVE OF A BLEED HIGH IN THE DIGESTIVE TRACT
  31. 31HAEMATOCHEZIATHE PRESENCE OF FRESH, UNDIGESTED BLOOD IN THE FAECES. INDICATIVE OF A BLEED IN THE LOWER DIGESTIVE TRACT
  32. 32TENESMUSINAFFECTUAL STRAINING TO ELIMINATE
  33. 33ELIMINATIONTHE PASSING OF INDIGESTIBLE OR WASTE PRODUCTS FROM THE BODY (e.g. urine, faeces, vomit)
  34. 34SYNCOPEFAINTING
  35. 35TUSSISCOUGHING
  36. 36HYPOSTATIC PNEUMONIAGATHERING OF FLUID IN THE LUNGS DUE TO A LACK OF NORMAL BREATH MOVEMENT OR PROLONGED PERIODS OF PRESSURE
  37. 37ASPIRATION PNEUMONIAA PNEUMONIA CAUSED BY THE INHALATION OF FOREIGN MATERIAL (most commonly food or vomitus)
  38. 38CYANOSISBLUE COLOURED MUCOUS MEMBRANES DUE TO HYPOXIA
  39. 39ICTERUSJAUNDICE
  40. 40MICTURITIONURINATION
  41. 41HAEMATURIABLOOD IN THE URINE
  42. 42MENTATIONAN ANIMALS APPARENT MENTAL STATE (e.g. depressed, anxious)
  43. 43LETHARGYA LACK OF ENERGY OR WILLINGNESS TO INTERACT
  44. 44MALAISEA GENERAL SENSE OF FEELING UNWELL WITH NO IMMEDIATELY OBVIOUS CAUSE
  45. 45ANOREXIAA LOSS OF APPETITE
  46. 46DYSPHAGIADIFFICULTY EATING OR SWALLOWING
  47. 47PICAA DEPRAVED APPETITE RESULTING IN THE CONSUMPTION OF NON-FOOD ITEMS/MATERIALS
  48. 48COPROPHAGIAEATING OF FAECES.
  49. 49PREHENSIONTHE ACT OF GRASPING OR PICKING UP FOOD
  50. 50MASTICATIONCHEWING
  51. 51HAEMATEMESISVOMIT CONTAINING BLOOD
  52. 52STERCORACEOUS VOMITINGTHE VOMITING OF FAECAL MATTER
  53. 53GAITTHE WAY IN WHICH AN ANIMAL MOVES
  54. 54ATAXIAUNCO-ORDINATED MOVEMENTS
  55. 55LAMENESSUNABLE TO WALK WITHOUT DIFFICULTY. DEGREE OF LAMENESS IS OFTEN MEASURED ON A SCALE OF 1-10
  56. 56POLYDIPSIAINCREASED DRINKING
  57. 57POLYPHAGIAINCREASED EATING OR APPETITE
  58. 58DEHYDRATIONA LOSS OF FLUIDS FROM ALL COMPARTMENTS OF THE BODY
  59. 59HYPOVOLAEMIAA LOSS OF FLUID FROM WITHIN THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
  60. 60AUSCULTATIONUSING A STETHOSCOPE TO LISTEN TO INTERNAL ORGANS (e.g. heart, lung and gut sounds)
  61. 61PALPATIONEXAMINATION USING TOUCH
  62. 62ALLODYNIAA NON-NOXIOUS STIMULI ELICITS A GENUINE PAIN RESPONSE
  63. 63HYPERALGESIAA MODERATELY UNCOMFORTABLE STIMULI ELICITS A DISPROPORTIONATE PAIN RESPONSE
  64. 64PARAPLEGIAPARALYSIS OF THE HINDLIMBS
  65. 65TETRAPLEGIA/QUADRIPLEGIAPARALYSIS OF ALL FOUR LIMBS
  66. 66HEMIPLEGIAPARALYSIS OF ONE SIDE OF THE BODY
  67. 67PSEUDOCYESISFALSE/PHANTOM PREGNANCY
  68. 68BLEPHAROSPASMKEEPING THE EYE CLOSED, OR BLINKING VERY RAPIDLY
  69. 69NOCTURNALACTIVE AT NIGHT
  70. 70CREPUSCULARACTIVE DURING DAWN AND DUSK
  71. 71DIURNALACTIVE DURING THE DAY
  72. 72ARBOREALTREE DWELLING
  73. 73TERRESTRIALLAND DWELLING
  74. 74ZOONOSISAN INFECTION THAT CAN BE TRANSFERRED FROM ANIMAL TO HUMAN
  75. 75ANTHROPONOSISAN INFECTION THAT CAN BE TRANSMITTED FROM HUMAN TO ANIMAL
  76. 76PATHOGENA DISEASE CAUSING ORGANISM
  77. 77ANTIBODYAN IMMUNE DEFENCE MOLECULE, PRODUCED IN RESPONSE TO AN ANTIGEN
  78. 78ANTIGENA TOXIC OR FOREIGN SUBSTANCE THAT STIMULATES AN IMMUNE RESPONSE FROM THE BODY
  79. 79NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONAN INFECTION CONTRACTED WITHIN THE HOSPITAL ENVIRONMENT
  80. 80ANTHELMINTICA DRUG USED TO ELIMINATE WORMS (HELMINTHS)
  81. 81ECDYSISTHE PROCESS OF SHEDDING, OBSERVED IN REPTILES
  82. 82DYSECDYSISDIFFICULTY SHEDDING
  83. 83PARAPHIMOSISINABILITY TO RETRACT THE PENIS BACK IN TO THE PREPUCE
  84. 84PETECHIAL HAEMORRHAGEHAEMORRHAGE FROM SUPERFICIAL CAPILLARIES, GIVING THE APPEARANCE OF PIN PRICK BLEEDS. ASSOCIATED MOST COMMONLY WITH CLOTTING DYSFUNCTION AND OBSERVED ON THE MUCOUS MEMBRANES
  85. 85PROPTOSISABNORMAL PROTRUSION OF THE EYES
  86. 86CONJUNCTIVITISINFLAMMATION OF THE CONJUNCTIVA OF THE EYE
  87. 87ENTROPIONWHEN THE EYELID IS ROLLED INWARDS, CAUSING IRRITATION OF THE CORNEA
  88. 88ECTROPIONWHEN THE EYELID IS ROLLED OUTWARDS, CAUSING OCULAR DRYNESS AND INCREASED RISK OF FOREIGN MATERIAL
  89. 89ANISOCORIAPUPILS OF UNEQUAL SIZE
  90. 90PLAQUETHE THIN FILM COATING TEETH THAT CONSISTS OF BACTERIA AND MICROSCOPIC FOOD PARTICLES. GIVEN TIME IT WILL DEVELOP IN TO TARTAR.
  91. 91GINGIVITISINFLAMMATION OF THE GUMS
  92. 92MALOCCLUSIONMISALIGNMENT OF THE UPPER AND LOWER JAW, OFTEN RESULTING IN ABNORMAL DENTITION.
  93. 93POLLAKIURIAINCREASED DAYTIME URINATION
  94. 94ORTHOPNOEADIFFICULTY BREATHING WHEN LAYING DOWN

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A starter guide to general veterinary terminology. Most applicable to first year students.
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  • Created by Kelly Winstanley · Jul 11, 2016
  • Copied by Kelly Winstanley · Nov 14, 2018
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