Mental and Behavioral Health Nursing NUR2459
General Vocabulary questions with verified answers
Advocacy Ans✓✓✓ taking action to influence others to address a
health-related concern or to support a health-related belief
Agranulocytosis Ans✓✓✓ A life-threatening drop in white blood cells.
This condition is sometimes produced by the atypical antipsychotic drug
clozapine.
Akathisia Ans✓✓✓ motor restlessness
Akinesia Ans✓✓✓ loss or impairment of the power of voluntary
movement
amenorrhea Ans✓✓✓ absence of menstruation
Anhedonia Ans✓✓✓ a diminished ability to experience pleasure
Anosognosia Ans✓✓✓ A patient's inability to realize that he or she is
ill, which is caused by the illness itself.
aphasia Ans✓✓✓ impairment of language, usually caused by left
hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to
Wernicke's area (impairing understanding).
, Apraxia Ans✓✓✓ impaired ability to carry out motor activities despite
intact motor function
assault Ans✓✓✓ a violent attack
ataxia Ans✓✓✓ inability to perform coordinated movements
autonomy Ans✓✓✓ (n.) self-government, political control
Battery Ans✓✓✓ unlawful touching of another person without consent
Beneficence Ans✓✓✓ Doing good or causing good to be done; kindly
action
Bioethics Ans✓✓✓ the ethics of medical and biological research
catatonia Ans✓✓✓ state of immobility and unresponsiveness lasting
for long periods of time
Christian Ethics Ans✓✓✓ Do unto others as you would have them do
unto you
General Vocabulary questions with verified answers
Advocacy Ans✓✓✓ taking action to influence others to address a
health-related concern or to support a health-related belief
Agranulocytosis Ans✓✓✓ A life-threatening drop in white blood cells.
This condition is sometimes produced by the atypical antipsychotic drug
clozapine.
Akathisia Ans✓✓✓ motor restlessness
Akinesia Ans✓✓✓ loss or impairment of the power of voluntary
movement
amenorrhea Ans✓✓✓ absence of menstruation
Anhedonia Ans✓✓✓ a diminished ability to experience pleasure
Anosognosia Ans✓✓✓ A patient's inability to realize that he or she is
ill, which is caused by the illness itself.
aphasia Ans✓✓✓ impairment of language, usually caused by left
hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to
Wernicke's area (impairing understanding).
, Apraxia Ans✓✓✓ impaired ability to carry out motor activities despite
intact motor function
assault Ans✓✓✓ a violent attack
ataxia Ans✓✓✓ inability to perform coordinated movements
autonomy Ans✓✓✓ (n.) self-government, political control
Battery Ans✓✓✓ unlawful touching of another person without consent
Beneficence Ans✓✓✓ Doing good or causing good to be done; kindly
action
Bioethics Ans✓✓✓ the ethics of medical and biological research
catatonia Ans✓✓✓ state of immobility and unresponsiveness lasting
for long periods of time
Christian Ethics Ans✓✓✓ Do unto others as you would have them do
unto you
