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✔✔Anxiety - ✔✔Uneasiness or fear, often about a situation or condition.
✔✔Apathy - ✔✔A lack of interest in activities.
✔✔Apical Pulse - ✔✔The pulse located on the left side of the chest, just below the
nipple.
✔✔Apnea - ✔✔The absence of breathing
✔✔Arm lock - ✔✔Hold in which the caregiver places his arm under a person's arm,
grasping the person's shoulder , while the person grasps the caregiver's shoulder.
✔✔Arthritis - ✔✔A general term that refers to the inflammation of the joins, causing
stiffness, pain and decreased mobility.
✔✔Artificial Airway - ✔✔Any plastic, metal or rubber device inserted into the respiratory
tract to maintain or promote breathing .
✔✔Aspiration - ✔✔The inhalation of food, drink, or foreign material into the lungs.
✔✔Assault - ✔✔A threat to harm a person, resulting in the person feeling fearful that he
or she will be harmed.
✔✔Assisted living - ✔✔Residences for people who do not need skilled, 24- hour care,
but do require some help with daily care.
✔✔Asthma - ✔✔A chronic inflammatory disease that causes difficulty with breathing,
coughing and wheezing.
✔✔Atheist - ✔✔People who believe there is no God and actively deny the existence of
God.
✔✔Atherosclerosis - ✔✔A hardening and narrowing of the blood vessels.
✔✔Atrophy - ✔✔The wasting away, decreasing in size, and weakening of muscle from
lack of use.
✔✔Autoimmune Illness - ✔✔An illness in which the body's immune system attacks
normal tissue in the body.
✔✔Axillae - ✔✔Underarms.
, ✔✔Baseline - ✔✔Initial values that can be compared to future measurements.
✔✔Basted - ✔✔Coated with juices or other liquid during roasting.
✔✔Battery - ✔✔The intentional touching of a person without his or her consent .
✔✔Bed rest - ✔✔Stopping all activity and staying in bed in order to prevent labor from
stating before baby is ready to be born.
✔✔Benign prostatic hypertrophy - ✔✔A disorder that can occur in men as they age in
which tje prostate becomes enlarged and causes problems with urination and or
emptying the bladder.
✔✔Benign tumors - ✔✔Tumors that are considered non cancerous.
✔✔Bias - ✔✔Prejudice
✔✔Biodegradable - ✔✔Capable of breaking down or being decomposed by bacterial or
other living organisms.
✔✔Bipolar Disorder - ✔✔A type of depression that causes a person to swing from
periods of deep depression to periods of extreme activity.
✔✔Bisexual - ✔✔A person who is sexually attracted to both men and women.
✔✔Blood-borne Pathogens - ✔✔Microorganisms found in human blood, body fluids,
draining wounds, and mucous membranes that can cause infection and disease in
humans.
✔✔Blood-borne Pathogens Standard - ✔✔Federal law that requires that healthcare
facilities protect employees from blood-borne health hazards.
✔✔Body Mechanics - ✔✔The way the parts of the body work together when a person
moves.
✔✔Bones - ✔✔Rigid connective tissues that make up the skeleton protect organs and
allow the body to move.
✔✔Bony Prominence - ✔✔Areas of the body where bone lies close to the skin.
✔✔Brachial Pulse - ✔✔The pulse located inside the elbow , about one and a half inches
above the elbow.