Galen NU 136 Exam vocabulary With
100% Correct Answers
Lordosis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Exaggerated lumbar curve
Kyphosis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Increased curve in the thoracic area
Scoliosis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Pronounced lateral curvature of the spine
Wheeze - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Whistling, musical, high-pitched sound produced by air being
forced through a narrow or partially obstructed airway
Rhonchi - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Coarse, low-pitched, SONOROUS, rattling sounds caused by
secretions in the larger air passages; sometimes called gurgles
Crackles - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Fine or coarse non musical sounds in lungs. Sounds like
rubbing your air together
Bronchovesicular sounds - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Sounds heard over the central chest or back.
Normally they are equal in length during inspiration and expiration and have no pause between
them
Vesicular Sounds - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Soft, rustling sounds heard in the periphery of the
lung fields. They are longer on inspiration than expiration and there is no pause between them
Adventitious sounds - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Abnormal lung sounds
, Hyperactive - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Frequent bowel sounds
Hypoactive - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Bowel sounds with long periods of silence
Absent - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔No bowel sounds
Consensual Reflex - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔When both pupils should get smaller when either
eye is stimulated by the light
Accommodation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔When pupils constrict when looking at a near object
and then dilate when viewing a far object
Pupils Equal, Round, and Reactive to Light and Accommodation - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Definition of PERRLA
PERRLA - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Pupils Equal, Round, and Reactive to Light and Accommodation
Obstruction of airway - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Most common cause of respiratory insufficiency
21% - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Amount of Oxygen in the air we normally breathe
Hypoxemia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The decreased amount of Oxygen in the bloodstream
Hypoxia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Less oxygen in the bloodstream available to meet cellular
needs
Dyspnea - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
100% Correct Answers
Lordosis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Exaggerated lumbar curve
Kyphosis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Increased curve in the thoracic area
Scoliosis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Pronounced lateral curvature of the spine
Wheeze - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Whistling, musical, high-pitched sound produced by air being
forced through a narrow or partially obstructed airway
Rhonchi - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Coarse, low-pitched, SONOROUS, rattling sounds caused by
secretions in the larger air passages; sometimes called gurgles
Crackles - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Fine or coarse non musical sounds in lungs. Sounds like
rubbing your air together
Bronchovesicular sounds - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Sounds heard over the central chest or back.
Normally they are equal in length during inspiration and expiration and have no pause between
them
Vesicular Sounds - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Soft, rustling sounds heard in the periphery of the
lung fields. They are longer on inspiration than expiration and there is no pause between them
Adventitious sounds - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Abnormal lung sounds
, Hyperactive - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Frequent bowel sounds
Hypoactive - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Bowel sounds with long periods of silence
Absent - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔No bowel sounds
Consensual Reflex - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔When both pupils should get smaller when either
eye is stimulated by the light
Accommodation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔When pupils constrict when looking at a near object
and then dilate when viewing a far object
Pupils Equal, Round, and Reactive to Light and Accommodation - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Definition of PERRLA
PERRLA - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Pupils Equal, Round, and Reactive to Light and Accommodation
Obstruction of airway - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Most common cause of respiratory insufficiency
21% - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Amount of Oxygen in the air we normally breathe
Hypoxemia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The decreased amount of Oxygen in the bloodstream
Hypoxia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Less oxygen in the bloodstream available to meet cellular
needs
Dyspnea - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
