Veterinary Assistant Exam Questions and Answers

abducted - Answer- moved out and away from the body abrasion - Answer- a shearing or rubbing wound that damaged and destroys the epidermis and parts of the dermis abscess - Answer- an enclosed collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue adherent - Answer- tendency to stick to the wound anemia - Answer- a condition in which the blood is deficient in the red blood cells, hemoglobin or total volume antiseptic - Answer- a substance that checks the growth and action of bacteria in living tissue aseptic - Answer- infection-preventing avulsion - Answer- a wound characterized by tissue torn from its underlying attachments bandage debridement - Answer- an alternative debridement method employing a wet-to-dry bandage Bitter apple or Obtundia - Answer- Two bitter solutions that most animals dont like and will avoid once they smell or taste them capillaries - Answer- tiny blood vessels carpal flexion sling - Answer- a sling that prevents an animal from putting weight on an injured leg, but doesnt immobilize all of the legs joints carpus - Answer- wrist cast padding - Answer- thin, rolled cotton used in a bandages intermediate layer casting material - Answer- fiberglass or plaster used to make casts chalone - Answer- a substance in normal tissue that inhibits epithelial cell mitosis closed wounds - Answer- crushes and contusions coalesce - Answer- to grow together collagen - Answer- the chief protein of connective tissue contact quidance - Answer- the process bu which epithelial cells migrate along fibrin strands contact in hibition - Answer- the process that stops a fibroblast when it touched another fibroblast contusions - Answer- bruises debridement - Answer- the surgical excision of diseased or damaged tissue and foreign matter form a wound dehydration - Answer- an abnormal depletion of bodily fluids delayed primary closure - Answer- the delayed, usually by several days, direct closure of a wound with sutures dermis - Answer- the tissue under the skins outer layer distal limb splint - Answer- a simple padded bandage which used a rigid plastic splint to support the limb below the elbow or hock, ankle, dorsally - Answer- toward the back ehmer sling - Answer- a figure eight made from tape and gauze that keeps an animals weight off an injured hind leg elizabethan collar - Answer- a stiff collar that blocks an animals access to an injury edothelium - Answer- a protective membrane layer epidermis - Answer- the skins outer layer epithelial cells - Answer- cells of the epithelium epithelialization - Answer- the multiplication and migration of epithelial cells; the very first sign of wound repair fibrin - Answer- a fibrous protein that fibroblasts draw from blood clots to construct a scaffolding fibroblast - Answer- a connective tissue cell tat moved into a ound and produced collagen fibroplasia - Answer- the development of fibroblasts granulation tissue - Answer- the glistening pink-red tissue that covers and helps heal an open wound, produced by fibroblast collagen and capillary action hobble - Answer- a tape sling that holds the hind legs and fixed distance from each other hydrocolloidal - Answer- having the ability to combine with liquid to form a gel incision - Answer- a wound with a smooth edge and minimal trauma to the surrounding and underlying tissue inflamation - Answer- a local response to cellular injury that initiates the removal of noxious agents and damaged tissue interferon - Answer- a natural protein that stimulates cells to synthesize another protein with antiviral characteristics lance - Answer- to thrust a scalpel blade into an abscess to create a hold for pus to drain laceration - Answer- a wound with irregular margin and damage to the surrounding and deeper tissues lavage - Answer- the flushing or irrigation of a wound leukocute - Answer- a white blood cell lister bandage scissors - Answer- special scissors whose blunted tip makes it easier to avoid skin while cutting bandage macrophage - Answer- an infection fighting tissue cell derived from a monocyte mason meta splint - Answer- a distal limb splint made of plastic or aluminum thats curved lengthwise to fit around the animals leg mitosis - Answer- cell devision mobilize - Answer- what epithelial cells do when they detach from the underlying dermis during spitherliazation monocyte - Answer- a large white blood cell formed in the bone marrow that migrates in to connective tissue and differentiates into a microphage myofibroblast - Answer- a cell in granulation tissue that shares some characteristics of smooth muscle cells occlusive dressing - Answer- a bandage or dressing that closes a wound and keeps it from the air open wounds - Answer- injuries that cut and destroy the skin orthopedic stockinette - Answer- a tube shaped stretchable bandage oscillating saw - Answer- a saw that removed a cast without cutting the skin beneath it phagocitize - Answer- to consume as phagocytes do, by engulfing and breaking down foreign material and debris PMN cell - Answer- a white blood cell capable of assuming different forms, initially predominant in a wound primary layer - Answer- the layer of a bandage in direct contact with the wound puncture - Answer- a penetrating wound caused by a projectile or a sharp object robert jones bandage - Answer- a heavily padded compression bandage whose primary role is to support a limb scapula - Answer- shoulder blade secondary layer - Answer- the middle layer of a bandage that absorbs fluid and pads the wound stirrups - Answer- pieces of adhesive tape that helps hold a bandage subcutaneous - Answer- beneath the skin tetiary layer - Answer- the outer layer of a bandage that holds the other layers in place vasocontriction - Answer- the narrowing of blood vessels vasodilation - Answer- the widening of blood vessels velpeau sling - Answer- a shoulder bandage that keeps an animals weight off an injured from leg vanule - Answer- a small vein wet to dry bandage - Answer- a bandage applied wet that, as it dries, adheres to dead tissue and debris wound contraction - Answer- the cellular process that shrinks and closes open wounds through the action of myofibroblasts wound dressing - Answer- the layer of a bandage that contacts and protects the wound; the primary layer acute gastroentieritis - Answer- irritation of the stomach and intestine from dietary causes that often results acute vomiting and or diarrhea Ambu Bag - Answer- a resuscitation device thats squeezed to deliver a breath to the animal patient annulus - Answer- the outer fibrous layer of the iintervertebral disk anticoagulant drugs - Answer- drugs that prolong blood clotting anticoagulant rodenticides - Answer- rodenticides that kill rats by causing abnormal bleeding due to the inability to form a blood clot antidote - Answer- a compound that neutralizes a poison or counteracts its effects antiemetics - Answer- drugs that control vomiting aortic thromboembolism - Answer- a condition caused by a clot that forms in an abnormal heart, travels down the aorta, and lodges in a peripheral artery apnea - Answer- lack of breathing arterial bleeding - Answer- bleeding from a damaged artery aura - Answer- the period just before a seizure is about to occur; the animals may appear restless, nervous, or more affectionate bounding - Answer- term used for a pulse thats increasing in strength capillary refill time - Answer- technique used to evaluate an animals cardiovascular system in which the gums are blanched and the time required for the gums to return to normal color is assessed cardiac arrhythmias - Answer- abnormal heart rhythms cardiomyopathy - Answer- a disease of the heart muscle cardiopulmonary arrest - Answer- condition in which the animal has stopped breathing and the heart has stopped pumping blood to the body cardiopulmonary resuscitation - Answer- a means to temporarily restore breathing and blood flow until the body can once again take over these functions independently cathartic - Answer- a drug that causes active movement of the bowels closed or simple fracture - Answer- a fracture in which the skin has been disrupted, exposing the underlying muscle and bone congestive heart failure - Answer- a common emergency presentation in both dogs and cats caused either by cardiomyopathy or damaged, leaking heart valves containdicated - Answer- not recommended cyanotic - Answer- blue or purple; describes discoloration of tongue and mucous membranes due to a decrease in the amount of oxygen in the blood decontamination - Answer- an attempt to remove a toxins from the stomach and intestine before its absorbed into the bloodstream dyspneic - Answer- a term referring to an animal thats having difficulty breathing eclampsia - Answer- a condition caused by an abnormally low level of calcium in the blood most commonly seen in dogs nursing puppies emesis - Answer- the act of inducing vomiting emetic - Answer- a drug used to produce vomiting endotracheal tubes - Answer- tubes used to connect the patients airway and the anesthesia equipment envenmonizations - Answer- poisoning caused by a bite or sting feline asthma - Answer- constriction of the small airways in the lungs, causing difficulty in exhaling. Common cause of acute respiratory distress in cats feline lower urinary tract diease - Answer- a disease assumed to be caused by a variety of factors, in which a plug or mucus and crystals lodges in the urethra and blocks the flow of urine, resulting in toxicity fracture - Answer- broken bone full thickness burns - Answer- damage to all layers of the skin as well as the underlying tissues gastric dilation volvulus - Answer- a condition in which a dogs stomach becomes distended with food, liquid, and air. The stomach then twists, or rotates around the distal esophagus, preventing fluid or air from leaving the stomach. Bloat. gastropexy - Answer- a surgical procedure to attach the stomach to the abdominal wall grief - Answer- the normal response of an individual to the loss of someone or something of importance in his or her life heat stroke - Answer- a condition of extreme overheating of the body caused by high environmental temperature heimlich maneuver - Answer- technique used to dislodge an object from the esophagus of a choking animal hematuria - Answer- blood in the urine hemorrhaging - Answer- active bleeding hemostat - Answer- an instrument used to stop profuse bleeding hemothorax - Answer- the presence of blood in the pleural space hypthermia - Answer- low body temperature ictus - Answer- the period when a seizure is actually taking place, in which the animal collapses into a violent state of thrashing inappetence - Answer- lack of appetite infarct - Answer- an area of dead tissue resulting from a lack of circulation intubation - Answer- the placement of an endotracheal tube laryngoscope - Answer- device used to facilitate intubation level of consciousness - Answer- term used in triage evaluation to assess an animals conscious state ligation - Answer- constriction of a blood vessel by means of a tightly tied length of suture material local reaction - Answer- a reaction to a snake bite that consists of pain, swelling, and bruising around the area that was bitten luxation - Answer- a displacement or dislocation of a joint from its normal position mentation - Answer- the animals mental activty metabolites - Answer- compounds produced as the bod breaks down a toxin, sch as ethylene glycol, for elimination necrotic - Answer- a term describing dead, nonviable tissue needle paracentesis - Answer- procedure used to decompress an animals stomach distended from GDV, it involves placing a needle or catheter across the body wall and into the distended stomach. neoplasia - Answer- formation of new tissue nucleus - Answer- inner gelatinous layer of the intervertebral disk pancreatitis - Answer- inflammation of the pancreas paracentisis - Answer- surgical puncture of a cavity for the aspiration of fluid paralysis - Answer- inability to walk paretic - Answer- weakening of the limbs partial thickness burns - Answer- damage to the superficial layers of skin parturition - Answer- delivery of puppies parvovirus enteritis - Answer- a viral infection most commonly seen in dogs less than six months of age and characterized by inflammation of the intestine pleural space - Answer- potential space between the parietal and visceral space pneumonthorax - Answer- the presence of air in the pleural space poison - Answer- any substance that, through chemical action, can produce harmful effects on normal body processes postictus - Answer- the recovery period of the seizure, in which the animal is beginning to return to normal