Palabras que empiezan con N

A close-fitting respirator mask that filters at least 95% of tiny particles from the air the wearer breathes.

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, a helper molecule in cell energy; in charting, often "no acute distress".

The form of NAD that carries electrons and energy from food to the cell's energy-making machinery.

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate: a molecule that carries electrons for chemical reactions in the body's cells.

A way to estimate a due date: take the first day of the last normal period, count back 3 months and add 7 days.

The skin underneath a fingernail or toenail.

A long-acting opioid antagonist that reverses the effects of opioids, such as slowed breathing.

A drug that blocks the effects of opioids at their receptors.

An opioid antagonist used to treat alcohol use disorder and to prevent relapse in opioid use disorder.

A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) taken by mouth that eases pain, fever and inflammation.

An older name for an opioid drug that relieves strong pain and causes sleepiness; in law it can mean any controlled drug.

A nostril, one of the two openings of the nose; the plural is nares.

A word part that means nose.

Having to do with the nose.

A soft tube passed through a nostril to the back of the nose, so the tongue cannot block the airway.

A thin plastic tube with two short prongs that sit in the nostrils to give oxygen.

The space inside the nose, behind the nostrils, through which air passes on its way to the throat.

Widening of the nostrils each time a person breathes in.

The wall of cartilage and bone that divides the inside of the nose into right and left sides.

Removing air and fluid from the stomach through a nasogastric tube attached to suction.

A thin, flexible tube passed through the nose and down the esophagus into the stomach.

The tube that carries tears from the lacrimal sac at the inner corner of the eye down into the nose.

The top part of the throat, behind the nose and above the soft palate.

A word root that means birth.

A word root that means sodium.

Making the kidneys remove more sodium in the urine.

A hormone released by stretched heart muscle that makes the kidneys remove sodium and water and relaxes the blood vessels.

An uneasy feeling in the stomach with the urge to vomit.

Feeling sick to the stomach together with throwing up.

The National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting, which awards and renews the CST and CSFA credentials.

The National Center for Competency Testing, a certifying agency that awards the TS-C credential to surgical technologists.

National Council Licensure Examination: the US and Canadian licensing exams for nurses.

The national licensing exam that practical and vocational nurses (LPNs and LVNs) pass before they can work.

The National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses, the exam graduates must pass to be licensed as RNs.

Nerve conduction study: a test that measures how fast and how strongly electrical signals travel along a nerve.

National Council of State Boards of Nursing: the US group of nursing boards that writes and runs the NCLEX exams.

A neodymium: yttrium aluminum garnet crystal laser with an invisible 1064 nm beam that reaches deepest and coagulates best of the surgical lasers.

An error or unsafe situation that was caught before it reached the client, so no harm was done.

A machine that turns liquid drug into a fine mist that a person breathes in through a mouthpiece or mask.

An operation that removes the lymph nodes of the neck, with the fat around them, for cancer of the head and neck.

A word root that means death, or dead tissue.

The death of cells or tissue in a part of the body.

A serious illness, mainly of premature babies, in which part of the bowel becomes inflamed and its tissue begins to die.

A fast-spreading bacterial infection of the fascia and the tissue around it that kills tissue as it goes; the "flesh-eating" infection.

A thin, hollow, pointed metal tube used to inject drugs or fluids into the body or to draw fluid out.

A ringed, ratcheted instrument with short, strong jaws that grips a curved suture needle so the surgeon can drive it through tissue.

Working without a needle, such as an IV connector that a syringe or tubing attaches to directly.

An injury in which a needle that may have been used on someone pierces the skin.

A planned look at what a person, group or community needs, done before deciding what services or teaching to provide.

A body control in which a change sets off a response that reverses it, bringing a value back toward its normal set point.