BioMedical - Unit 2.1 Vocab

Diagnosis

The process of determining which disease or condition explains a person’s symptoms and signed

Medical history

A record of information about a patient’s past and current health. Includes information about a patient’s habits, lifestyle, and even the health of their family.

Chief complaint

The patient’s description of what they feel is their main health problem.

Physical signs

Pieces of evidence that indicate an illness that can be observed externally, such as rash, coughing, or elevated temperature.

Symptoms

Any subjective evidence of disease, a patient perceives, such as aches, nausea, or fatigue.

Demeanor

Outward behavior or bearing.

Tact

Discretion and sensitivity and dealing with others.

Empathy

The ability to understand and share feelings of another person.

Vital signs

Measurement, specifically, pulse rate, temperature, respiration rate, and blood pressure that indicate the state of a patient’s essential body functions.

Homeostasis

The maintenance of stable, eternal physiological conditions pare (like body temperature, or the pH of blood), which enables the optimal functioning of an organism.

Pulse

The rhythmic expansion and recoil of arteries resulting from heart contraction.

Respiratory rate

The number of breast and organism takes per minute.

Blood pressure

The pressure that blood excerpts upon the walls of blood vessels, especially arteries, usually measured with a sphygmomanometer and expressed in millimeters of mercury.