DAANCE GLOSSARY EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2024 ALREADY PASSED

DAANCE GLOSSARY EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE 2024 ALREADY PASSED addisons disease - Answers a disease due to hypo secretion of glucocortcoids characterized by low blood pressure anemia diarrhea digestive disturbance and a bronze like pigmentation of the skin adjunctive agents - Answers agents that supplement the primary anesthetic agent to augment or enhance the effects of the primary agent allergenicity - Answers having the property of an allergen a substance that will elicit an allergic response in sensitive individuals alveolus plural is alveoli - Answers a small air sac within the body of the lung amide - Answers a chemical structure derived from ammonia there is a group of amide local anesthetics that are widely used in dentistry (eg lidocaine mepivicaine prilocaine bupivicaine) amnesia - Answers failure to remember events related to surgery analgesia - Answers insensitivity to pain anaphylaxis - Answers a severe allergic reaction marked by any of several severe responses including skin reactions smooth muscle cramping urinary incontinence constriction of bronchioles respiratory difficulty and cardiovascular collapse anemia - Answers a reduction in the number of red blood cells in the blood stream angina pectoris - Answers pain in the chest with a feeling of suffocation usually due to a deficiency of blood supply to the myocardium antecubital - Answers situated in front of the elbow antecubital fossa - Answers the depression between the forearm and the upper arm that is literally in front of the elbow anticholinergic - Answers a drug that counteracts the action of acetylcholine the neurotransmitter of the parasympathetic nervous system and there by blocks the action of the parasympathetic nerves antiemetic - Answers a drug that counteracts nausea and vomiting antisialagogue - Answers a drug that counteracts the production of saliva anxiolytics - Answers drugs that reduce anxiety agitation or tension eg diazapam (valium) midazolam (versed) aorta - Answers the main trunk (a very large artery) from which the arterial system proceeds apnea - Answers absence or cessation of breathing arrest rhythms - Answers cardiac rhythms in which there is cardiac arrest some arrest rhythms pulseless v tach are accompanied by a rhythm display but there is no contraction arrhythmia - Answers any variation from the normal rhythm of the heartbeat arteriole - Answers any of the very small arterial branches located at the end of the artery (furthest from the heart) artery - Answers a vessel that carries blood away from the heart to other parts of the body ascites - Answers accumulation of serious fluid in the abdominal cavity asystole - Answers cardiac arrest in which there is no rhythm display and no contraction ataractics - Answers pharmacolgic agents that produce a tranquilizing effect arthersclerosis - Answers a disease of the arteries characterized by deposition of plaques of fatty material on their inner walls atrial fibrillation - Answers atrial arrhythmia characterized by rapid randomized contractions of the myocardium causing a totally irregular and often rapid ventricular rate atrial flutter - Answers a condition of cardiac arrhythmia in which the atrial contractions are rapid (200 to 320 per min) but regular atrial (supraventricular) rhythms - Answers dysrhythmias in which the pacemaker is in the atria above the level of the ventricles (supraventricular) area atrial tachycardia - Answers rapid heartbeat originating from the atria atrioventricular block - Answers a cardiac conduction defect in which the impulse generated by the sa node is partially or completely blocked in the area of the av node atrioventricular node - Answers a microscopic collection of heart muscle fibers involved in the electrical activity of the heart atrium (plural is atria) - Answers an upper chamber of the heart atria also exist in other parts of the body automaticity - Answers the condition of being automatic autonomic nervous system - Answers a portion of the nervous system concerned with regulation of the activity of cardiac muscle smooth muscle and glands balanced anesthesia - Answers anesthesia that relies on the use of several agents together capitalizing on the best aspects of each agent but using each at a smaller dose than would be required if it were used alone barbiturates - Answers a group of pharmacologic agents that have sedative properties and produce amnesia and a hypnotic effect (eg thiopental sodium methohexital (brevital) ) baroreceptor - Answers a sensory nerve ending that is stimulated by changes in pressure as those in the walls of blood vessels blood dyscrasia - Answers any abnormal condition of the blood bolus - Answers a rapidly administered dose of medication as compared to a slow steady administration of medication with a continuous infusion brachial artery - Answers artery that supplies blood to the shoulder,arm ,forearm and hand brachiochephalic artery - Answers the large artery on the right side of neck that distributes blood to the right side of the head and neck and right arm bradycardia - Answers slow heart rate (less than 60 beats per min) bronchiole - Answers one of the finer (1mm or less) subdivisions of the branched bronchial tree bronchus (plural is bronchi) - Answers any of the larger air passages of the lungs bundle of his - Answers a small band of atypical cardiac muscle fibers that propagates the atrial contraction rhythm to the ventricles