An Illustrated Guide To Vet Med Term
4th Edition
ISBN: 9781305465763
Author: ROMICH
Publisher: Cengage
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1. Imbalanced nutrition related to lack of knowledge about diet as eveidenced by _____________
2. Imbalanced nutrition: less than body requirements related to ________ as evidenced by _________
3. Ineffective health management related to ______ as evidenced by ______
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Aubrey, 19 years old, an incoming college freshman student went to Ateneo De Manila Health Services for physical examination. The nurse gathered the following information: Height: 5 ft Weight: 48 kg Vital signs: Temp 37.2C, Pulse rate: 95 beats per minute, Respiration rate: 12 breaths per minute, and BP: 100/70mmHg. Family History of illness: Father (+) Hypertension (HPN), and Diabetes Mellitus (DM) Present Health History: Aubrey never experienced to get hospitalized as far as she can remember. Her mother ensures that she takes daily supplemental vitamins such as vitamin C and B complex, and every year she gets flu vaccine from their family doctor. During the interview with the…
Identify the following terms. Type your answer below.
1. Dusky bluish color of the mucous membranes, skin and nailbeds due to excessive deoxygenation of red blood cell.
2. A breath sounds not normally heard in the lungs.
3. Sudden, explosive expiratory protective reflex to remove an irritant from air passages; may be hacking, croupy, rattling, whooping, barking.
4. A drug that relaxes smooth muscles of respiratory tract.
5. Use of specific positions so that force of gravity can assist in the removal of bronchial secretions from the affected bronchioles into bronchi and trachea by means of expectoration, percussion, and vibration.
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