Palabras que empiezan con R

A word ending that means heavy bleeding or bursting out.

A word ending that means surgical repair by sewing (suturing).

A word ending that means flow or discharge.

A word ending that means rupture, a bursting or tearing open.

An abbreviation that can mean rheumatoid arthritis, right atrium or room air.

Bruising around both eyes, like a raccoon's mask.

A memory aid for the steps to take in a fire: Rescue, Alarm, Contain, Extinguish or Evacuate.

A word root that means the spine, the vertebral column.

A word part that means radiation or x-rays; it can also mean the radius, a bone of the forearm.

Having to do with the radius, the forearm bone on the thumb side, or spreading out from a center.

A large nerve of the brachial plexus that carries feeling and movement for the back of the arm and forearm, the wrist and the fingers.

The pulse felt at the wrist, on the thumb side, over the radial artery.

To spread outward from one place to another, as pain can spread from where it starts.

Energy that travels as waves or particles, such as X-rays, used to make images or treat cancer; also pain that spreads from its starting point.

Treatment that uses high-energy rays or radioactive material to kill cancer cells or shrink tumors.

Removal of the whole breast with the pectoralis major and minor muscles and all the axillary lymph nodes.

Electromagnetic energy at the frequencies used for radio, the range in which electrosurgical units run.

Tracking an item by a small tag that answers a radio signal, so a reader can find it without seeing it.

Letting x-rays pass through, so the material looks dark on an x-ray image and does not hide what lies behind it.

Blocking x-rays, so the material shows up white on an x-ray image.

A drug that acts like estrogen on bone, used to prevent and treat osteoporosis after menopause.

How far a joint can move in each of its normal directions, and the exercises that move joints through it.

An H2 blocker that lowers stomach acid, taken off the US market in 2020.

A blood test used to screen for syphilis by looking for antibodies the body makes during the infection.

A team of critical care staff who come quickly to the bedside of a client whose condition is getting worse.

A fast way of putting a patient with a full stomach to sleep and placing a cuffed breathing tube, to lower the risk of aspiration.

Insulin that starts to work within about 15 minutes and is timed with meals.

A relationship of trust and understanding between two people, such as a nurse and a client.

An area of skin that has changed in color or texture, often red, bumpy, scaly or itchy.

The interlocking teeth just below the finger rings of a clamp or needle holder that lock the jaws closed at a chosen tightness.

A condition in which small arteries of the fingers and toes narrow too much in response to cold or stress.

A radiopaque woven gauze sponge folded into a 4-inch square, used in shallow wounds and, on sponge forceps, in deep ones.

Randomized controlled trial: a study in which people are assigned by chance to a treatment group or a comparison group.

A word beginning that means again or back.

The taking back of water and dissolved substances from the fluid in the kidney tubules into the blood.

Writing down a spoken order or test result and reading it back to the person who gave it, so they can confirm it is right.

How prepared a person is, in body and mind, to take in and use new information.

The ability to tell the difference between one's own thoughts and feelings and what is really happening in the outside world.

Assessing a client again to see what has changed or how they responded to care.

Pain that is worse when a hand pressing into the abdomen is quickly let go than when it is pressed in.

A structure on or in a cell that a specific chemical, such as a hormone or drug, attaches to in order to act.

The place on the body that receives a graft or flap, such as the wound bed a skin graft is laid on.

The first step of the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model: picking out the client information that matters most.

To add a liquid, such as sterile water or saline, to a dry powdered drug to make a liquid of a set strength.

The process of getting better after an illness, injury, surgery or substance use, or the time just after anesthesia.

Relating to the rectum, the last part of the large intestine; also, given or measured through the rectum.

A bulge of the rectum forward into the back wall of the vagina, from weakened support between them.

The last part of the large intestine, between the colon and the anus, where stool is held until it leaves the body.

Latin for straight; the name of several straight muscles, such as the rectus abdominis of the abdomen and the rectus femoris of the thigh.

One of the two long, straight muscles that run up the front of the abdomen on either side of the midline, from the pubis to the ribs.