Palabras que empiezan con T

A word ending that means treatment.

A word ending that means the chest or the chest cavity.

A word ending that means an instrument for cutting.

A word ending that means crushing.

A word ending that means nourishment or growth.

The wave on an electrocardiogram that shows the heart's lower chambers recovering electrically after each beat.

A soft drain shaped like a T, placed in the common bile duct after the duct is opened so bile drains out to a bag.

Triiodothyronine: the more active of the two main thyroid hormones, or the blood test that measures it.

A linear stapler that lays straight, staggered rows of staples across tissue without cutting it, to close an end or an opening.

An abbreviation that can mean triamcinolone, tacrolimus, or a numbing gel of tetracaine, adrenaline and cocaine; ISMP advises full names.

A word beginning that means fast.

A heart rate faster than normal; in an adult, more than 100 beats per minute.

A breathing rate faster than normal, above 20 breaths per minute in an adult.

A drug that weakens the immune response, used to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ.

A PDE5 inhibitor: a drug that relaxes smooth muscle in blood vessels, used for erectile dysfunction, enlarged prostate and pulmonary hypertension.

The fifth step of the NCSBN Clinical Judgment Measurement Model: carrying out the nursing actions chosen for the client.

Writing parts of look-alike drug names in capital letters so the difference between them stands out.

An oral drug that blocks estrogen in breast tissue, used to treat and prevent breast cancer.

An alpha-1 blocker that relaxes the muscle of the prostate and bladder neck so urine flows more easily.

A suture needle with a round body that narrows to a sharp point, which pierces and spreads tissue without cutting it.

A movement disorder with repeated movements a person cannot control, most often of the face, lips and tongue.

A cell that carries the receptor for a particular hormone, so the hormone can act on it; also a red blood cell shaped like a target.

The firm plate of dense fibrous tissue inside each eyelid that gives the lid its shape and holds its oil glands.

A salt of tartaric acid that appears as part of some drug names, such as metoprolol tartrate.

An inherited disease in which a missing enzyme lets a fatty substance build up and destroy nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

A drug combined with certain antibiotics to block the bacterial enzymes that would destroy them.

Total body surface area: the whole skin surface of the body, used to describe how much of it a burn covers.

An abbreviation for tricyclic antidepressant, an older class of antidepressant drugs; in biology, it can mean the tricarboxylic acid cycle.

A vaccine against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough) for older children, teens and adults.

A way to check understanding by asking the client to explain, in their own words, what they have just been taught.

A teamwork and communication training program for health care teams, created by AHRQ and the US Department of Defense.

People working together toward a shared goal, each doing their own part and supporting the others.

Health care, teaching and monitoring given at a distance by phone, video or other digital tools.

Continuous heart rhythm monitoring in which a small device worn by the client sends the ECG signal to a central screen.

A treatment or medication order a provider gives to a nurse by phone instead of entering it in writing.

The part of each side of the brain, above the ear, that handles hearing, memory and understanding language.

The fan-shaped chewing muscle over the side of the head, running from the skull at the temple to the mandible, that closes the jaw.

The joint in front of each ear where the lower jaw meets the temporal bone, which lets the mouth open and close.

A word part that means tendon, the tough cord that joins a muscle to a bone.

A grasping instrument with one or more very sharp, pointed teeth that pierce tissue to hold it firmly, as on the cervix.

Pain or discomfort that is felt when an area of the body is pressed or touched.

A tough cord of tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone.

The three long, narrow bands of smooth muscle along the outside of the colon, formed by its outer longitudinal muscle layer.

Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation: mild electric pulses sent through pads on the skin to ease pain.

How much pulling force a strand of suture can take before it breaks.

A collapsed lung in which air keeps building up in the chest under pressure and presses on the heart and the other lung.

A word root that means a malformation; literally, "monster."

Anything a pregnant person is exposed to that can cause birth defects in the developing baby.

An antifungal drug used on the skin for athlete's foot and ringworm, and by mouth for fungal nail infections.

A beta-2 agonist drug that relaxes smooth muscle in the airways and the uterus.