Palabras que empiezan con I

A word ending that means a condition, often an abnormal one.

A word ending that means a condition or the presence of something, often an infection or stones.

A word ending that means medical treatment or a field of medicine.

A word ending that means relating to or belonging to.

A word ending that turns a verb into a noun naming an action, a process or its result.

A noun ending from Greek or Latin, found in names of body parts and conditions.

A word ending that means a condition, state or process.

A word ending that means a person who specializes in or practices something.

A word ending that means inflammation.

Incision and drainage: cutting open an abscess or collection so pus or fluid can drain out.

A drug that eases pain, fever and inflammation; a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug.

An abbreviation with several meanings, such as inspiratory capacity, interstitial cystitis or incident command; the setting shows which.

Small pieces of crushed ice that a client sucks on to moisten the mouth and get small amounts of fluid.

An abbreviation that can mean intradermal, identification, infectious disease or intellectual disability.

The forming of thoughts or ideas, especially repeated thoughts about a particular act.

Confirming who a person is, as in checking a client's identity before care.

Having no known cause.

A rare, unpredictable and unusual response to a drug, whose cause is not known and which does not fit what the drug normally does.

Immunoglobulin A: a kind of antibody found mostly in the body's linings and in saliva, tears and breast milk.

Immunoglobulin D: an antibody found mostly on the surface of B cells, where it helps start an immune response.

Immunoglobulin E: the type of antibody involved in allergic reactions and in fighting parasites.

Immunoglobulin G: the most common type of antibody in the blood, which gives long-lasting protection against germs.

Immunoglobulin M: the antibody the body makes first when it meets a new infection.

An abbreviation for "injection" that ISMP says not to use; in line and procedure notes, IJ also means internal jugular vein.

A word root that means the ileum, the last part of the small intestine.

A urinary diversion in which the ureters drain into a short, isolated piece of ileum brought out through the skin as a stoma, where a bag collects the urine.

The ring of muscle where the ileum, the end of the small intestine, opens into the cecum, the first part of the large intestine.

A surgical opening that brings the end of the ileum through the belly wall, so stool leaves the body there.

The last and longest part of the small intestine, which joins the large intestine.

A slowing or stopping of the normal movement of the intestines, with nothing physically blocking them.

A word root that means the ilium, the large upper bone of the hip (pelvis).

Having to do with the ilium, the large, wing-shaped upper part of the hip bone.

The long, curved upper edge of the ilium, the wing of the hip bone, felt at the side of the waist; the most common site for taking a bone graft.

The main muscle that bends the hip, made of the psoas major and the iliacus, which join to end on the lesser trochanter of the femur.

The large, wing-shaped upper part of each hip bone.

The part of a fluoroscope that receives the x-rays after they pass through the patient and turns them into a bright image on a monitor.

Surgery that uses the patient's 3D scans and real-time tracking to show the surgeon exactly where an instrument is inside the body.

A relaxation method in which a person pictures calm, pleasant scenes in the mind to ease stress or pain.

A lack of balance: too much or too little of something the body needs to keep at a steady level.

A tricyclic antidepressant drug, also used for bedwetting in children.

Action the nurse must take right away, such as checking further, acting or reporting.

Steam sterilizing an urgently needed item, with little or no drying, for use right away; once called flash sterilization.

Being unable to move about freely, such as being kept in bed or a chair.

A word root that means immune, or protection from disease.

Protected against a disease, or having to do with the body's defense system against germs and other foreign things.

The way the body recognizes and defends itself against germs and other substances it sees as foreign.

The body's defense system of cells, tissues and organs that fights germs and other foreign substances.

The body's ability to resist or fight off a particular infection or disease.

The process of making a person protected against a disease, most often by giving a vaccine.

The recommended timetable of which vaccines to give, at what ages and how many doses.