easy flashcards/2025
Plantar - Sole side of foot
Plantar flexion - Foot movement when toes flex down
(pointing your toes)
Supine - Body lying face up (chest up and back down)
Afebrile - without fever
diaphoresis - excessive sweating
dysuria - painful urination
emesis - vomiting
epistaxis - bleeding from the nose
gait - a person's manner of walking
hematochezia - Bright red, bloody stools
, hematuria - blood in the urine
hemoptysis - coughing up blood
incontinence - inability to control bladder and/or bowels
myocardial infarction (MI) - heart attack
pruritis - itching
syncope - fainting
vertigo - Condition of dizziness, "room spinning"
cyanosis - bluish discoloration of the skin
laceration - to cut
Bradycardia - slow heart rate
Tachycardia - fast heart rate
apnea - absence of breathing
gravid - pregnant