Palabras que empiezan con F

A pain scale of six drawn faces, from smiling to crying, that a person points to in order to show how much they hurt.

A sagging of one side of the face, often easiest to see at the corner of the mouth.

The look on a person's face made by the facial muscles, such as a smile, frown or grimace.

The seventh cranial nerve, which moves the muscles of the face and carries taste from the front of the tongue.

To make something easier to do or to happen.

A short printed or online page that gives the key facts about a topic in simple terms.

The reduced form of flavin adenine dinucleotide, a molecule that carries electrons inside cells during energy production.

Poor growth in a child, with weight gain well below what is expected for the child's age.

A short loss of consciousness from a brief drop in blood flow to the brain, with a quick return to being awake.

A sickle-shaped fold of peritoneum that ties the liver to the front abdominal wall and the underside of the diaphragm.

The set of safety steps nurses use to keep a client from falling.

One of the two tubes that carry an egg from the ovary to the uterus, where fertilization usually happens.

Unlawfully keeping a person from moving freely or leaving, by force, threats or restraint.

Telling a person that everything will be fine when there is no real basis for saying so.

An oral antiviral drug for herpes virus infections, including shingles, cold sores and genital herpes.

The patterns of how family members relate to, communicate with and influence one another.

A record of the illnesses and health conditions of a person's blood relatives.

An H2 blocker, given by mouth or IV, that lowers the amount of acid the stomach makes.

A word root that means fascia, the sheet of tough tissue that wraps muscles.

A sheet or band of tough connective tissue that covers and separates muscles and organs.

Surgery that cuts open the fascia, the tough tissue around a group of muscles, to relieve pressure inside it.

A memory aid for spotting a stroke: Face drooping, Arm weakness, Speech difficulty, Time to call for help.

A blood sugar test taken after at least 8 hours with no food or drink other than water.

A milky-white IV fluid of fats, usually from soybean, olive or fish oil, given as part of nutrition by vein.

A lasting feeling of tiredness or lack of energy that rest does not fully relieve.

A building block of fats: a chain of carbon atoms that the body uses for energy and to build cells.

The US Food and Drug Administration: the federal agency that regulates drugs, medical devices, vaccines and food safety.

A seizure in a young child brought on by a fever, without an infection of the brain or another known cause.

Having to do with feces, the solid waste passed from the bowel; stool.

A test of a stool sample for tiny amounts of blood that cannot be seen with the eye.

A way germs spread in which tiny amounts of stool from an infected person reach another person's mouth.

Solid waste passed from the bowel through the anus, made of undigested food, water, bacteria and cells.

Information about a result that is sent back to change what happens next, in the body or between people.

Relating to the thigh or the femur, the thigh bone.

The large artery that carries blood to the leg, running through the groin and down the thigh.

An operation that carries blood around a blocked femoral artery through a graft from the femoral artery in the groin to the popliteal artery at the knee.

The thigh bone, the long bone between the hip and the knee.

A sterile drape with an opening, or window, that is placed over the incision site, made in shapes for each part of the body.

A very strong, fast-acting opioid pain drug given by IV, skin patch or through the lining of the mouth.

A protein that stores iron in the body; its blood level shows how much iron is stored.

An iron salt taken by mouth to treat or prevent low iron in the body.

The ability to become pregnant or to cause a pregnancy.

The joining of a sperm and an egg to form a single new cell, the start of a pregnancy.

A word root that means fetus, the unborn baby from about 9 weeks after conception until birth.

Relating to a fetus, the unborn baby from the ninth week of pregnancy until birth.

A swab test of vaginal fluid for a protein that holds the fetal membranes to the lining of the uterus.

The number of times the unborn baby's heart beats per minute.

Checking a fetus's heart rate during pregnancy or labor, with a handheld device or a continuous electronic monitor.

The small, irregular ups and downs of the baby's baseline heart rate seen on a fetal monitor tracing.

A device that records the fetal heart rate and the mother's contractions during pregnancy and labor.