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Thermoregulation - ✔✔relationship between heat production and heat loss
Febrile - ✔✔Has a fever
Afebrile - ✔✔does not have a fever
Constant fever - ✔✔the body temp fluctuates minimally but always remains
above normal
Remittent fever - ✔✔a wide range of temperature fluctuations (more than
2˚C) in a 24 hour period of time, all of which are above normal (most
common with a cold or influenza)
Relapsing fever - ✔✔short febrile periods of a few days are interspersed
with periods of 1-2 days of normal temperature
Intermittent Fever - ✔✔the body temperature alternates at regular intervals
between periods of fever and periods of normal or subnormal temperatures
Antipyretics - ✔✔medications used to lower fevers
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, Conduction - ✔✔transfer of heat between 2 objects in direct physical
contact
Convection - ✔✔transfer of heat by movement of air (ventilation)
Radiation - ✔✔transfer of heat to objects not in physical contact
Evaporation - ✔✔transfer of heat by water vapor (sweating)
Inhalation - ✔✔active movement in which the diaphragm contracts, ribs
move upward, sternum moves outward, increased size of thorax
Exhalation - ✔✔passive movement in which diaphragm relaxes, ribs move
down and in, and sternum moves inward
Systolic pressure - ✔✔contraction of the ventricles; first Korotkoff's sound
Diastolic pressure - ✔✔Ventricles at rest; last Korotkoff sound
Pulse pressure - ✔✔difference between systolic and diastolic pressures
Activities of daily living - ✔✔The things we normally do in daily living
including any daily activity we perform for self-care such as feeding
ourselves, bathing, dressing, grooming, work, homemaking, and leisure.
The ability or inability to perform ADLs can be used as a very practical
measure of ability/disability in many disorders.
Ambulatory - ✔✔relating to or adapted for walking
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Thermoregulation - ✔✔relationship between heat production and heat loss
Febrile - ✔✔Has a fever
Afebrile - ✔✔does not have a fever
Constant fever - ✔✔the body temp fluctuates minimally but always remains
above normal
Remittent fever - ✔✔a wide range of temperature fluctuations (more than
2˚C) in a 24 hour period of time, all of which are above normal (most
common with a cold or influenza)
Relapsing fever - ✔✔short febrile periods of a few days are interspersed
with periods of 1-2 days of normal temperature
Intermittent Fever - ✔✔the body temperature alternates at regular intervals
between periods of fever and periods of normal or subnormal temperatures
Antipyretics - ✔✔medications used to lower fevers
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, Conduction - ✔✔transfer of heat between 2 objects in direct physical
contact
Convection - ✔✔transfer of heat by movement of air (ventilation)
Radiation - ✔✔transfer of heat to objects not in physical contact
Evaporation - ✔✔transfer of heat by water vapor (sweating)
Inhalation - ✔✔active movement in which the diaphragm contracts, ribs
move upward, sternum moves outward, increased size of thorax
Exhalation - ✔✔passive movement in which diaphragm relaxes, ribs move
down and in, and sternum moves inward
Systolic pressure - ✔✔contraction of the ventricles; first Korotkoff's sound
Diastolic pressure - ✔✔Ventricles at rest; last Korotkoff sound
Pulse pressure - ✔✔difference between systolic and diastolic pressures
Activities of daily living - ✔✔The things we normally do in daily living
including any daily activity we perform for self-care such as feeding
ourselves, bathing, dressing, grooming, work, homemaking, and leisure.
The ability or inability to perform ADLs can be used as a very practical
measure of ability/disability in many disorders.
Ambulatory - ✔✔relating to or adapted for walking
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