Nursing
Nursing
20 terms
I made this glossary to help the next nursing students like me to be able to explain to a patient about their treatments or diagnosis in case he doesn't know what it is.
- Autonomy
- The ability to make your own decisions without being controlled by anyone else.
- Bleeding
- Bloody or damned as a generalized intensive.
- Blood test
- A scientific examination of a sample of blood, typically for the diagnosis of illness or for the detection and measurement of drugs or other substances.
- Cancer
- A disease in which some of the body's cells grow uncontrollably and spread to other parts of the body.
- Dementia
- The lost of cognitive functioning.
- Diabetes
- Metabolic disease characterized by elevated levels of blood glucose.
- Diagnosis
- The process of identifying a disease, condition, or injury from its signs and symptoms.
- Glucometer
- A device for measuring the concentration of glucose in the blood.
- Headache
- A continuous pain in the head.
- Healing
- The process of making or becoming sound or healthy again.
- Hemorrhage
- An escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse.
- Inflammation
- A normal parts of the body response to injury or infection.
- Painkillers
- A drug or a medicine for relieving pain.
- Pediatric
- Relating to the branch of medicine dealing with children and their diseases.
- Pneumonia
- Lung inflammation caused by bacterial or viral infection, in which the air sacs fill with pus and may become solid.
- Prescription
- An instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be provided a medicine or treatment.
- Syringe
- A tube with a nozzle and piston or bulb for sucking in and ejecting liquid in a thin stream, used for cleaning wounds or body cavities, or fitted with a hollow needle for injecting or withdrawing fluids.
- Triage
- The preliminary assessment of patients in order to determine the urgency of their need for treatment and the nature of treatment required.
- Urination
- The discharge of urine from the body.
- Vaccine
- A substance used to stimulate immunity to a particular infectious disease or pathogen.