Palabras que empiezan con V

A product that trains the immune system to protect the body against a specific disease.

Emptying the uterus with a hollow cannula attached to a vacuum machine.

The muscular tube that leads from the cervix of the uterus to the outside of the body; the birth canal.

Relating to the vagina.

The 10th cranial nerve, which runs from the brain stem to the chest and belly and slows the heart and helps digestion.

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

To check that information is correct; in communication, to show a person that their feelings are understood and accepted.

A way of communicating with a person with dementia that accepts their feelings and their reality instead of correcting them.

A drug used to prevent seizures, to treat the manic phase of bipolar disorder and to prevent migraines.

Breathing out forcefully against a closed airway, as when bearing down or straining.

An angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB) used to lower blood pressure and to treat heart failure.

An antibiotic, given by IV for serious gram-positive infections or by mouth for one bowel infection.

A blood test of the lowest level of the antibiotic vancomycin, drawn just before the next dose.

An abrupt drop in the fetal heart rate of at least 15 beats per minute that lasts at least 15 seconds and less than 2 minutes.

A word root that means a swollen, twisted vein.

A very contagious infection caused by the varicella-zoster virus; also called chickenpox.

A live vaccine given as a shot under the skin to protect against chickenpox.

The virus that causes chickenpox and, years later, can wake up again to cause shingles.

Swollen, twisted veins, most often in the lower esophagus or the stomach, or in the legs.

Swollen, twisted veins of the pampiniform plexus in the spermatic cord, above the testis.

A swollen, twisted vein just under the skin, most often in the legs, in which the valves do not work well.

The muscular tube that carries sperm from the epididymis, up through the spermatic cord and inguinal canal, to the ejaculatory duct.

A word root that means blood vessel.

Relating to blood vessels.

A clamp with light, finely ridged jaws that stops or slows blood flow in a vessel without crushing or tearing its wall.

A tube or patch, synthetic or biologic, sewn in to replace a section of blood vessel, carry blood around a blockage, patch a vessel or make dialysis access.

Inflammation of blood vessels.

The narrowing of blood vessels when the muscle in their walls tightens.

The widening of blood vessels as the muscle in their walls relaxes, which lets more blood flow through.

A drug that widens blood vessels by relaxing the muscle in their walls.

A man-made form of antidiuretic hormone, given by IV mainly to raise blood pressure in shock.

A drug that narrows the blood vessels to raise the blood pressure.

A sudden tightening of the muscle in a blood vessel wall that narrows the vessel and cuts the blood flow.

The largest of the four quadriceps muscles, on the outer front of the thigh, which straightens the knee.

An intermediate-acting nondepolarizing muscle relaxant given by vein for intubation and to keep the muscles relaxed during surgery.

A blood vessel that carries blood back toward the heart.

Failure of the soft palate to close off the nose from the mouth during speech, so air escapes through the nose.

The Latin word for vein, used in names such as vena cava.

One of the two large veins that return oxygen-poor blood from the body to the right atrium of the heart.

Putting a needle into a vein to draw blood or start an IV.

An SNRI antidepressant, taken by mouth, used for depression and anxiety disorders.

Blood in the veins, returning to the heart after it has given up oxygen to the tissues.

A long-term condition in which the leg veins cannot carry blood back to the heart well.

The flow of blood back to the heart through the veins.

Slow or pooled blood flow in the veins, most often in the legs.

Air moving in and out of the lungs as a person breathes.

A lung infection that starts 48 hours or more after a client has been put on a breathing machine through a tube.

On or toward the front, belly side of the body.

One of the two lower chambers of the heart, or one of the fluid-filled spaces inside the brain.

A word root that means a ventricle, a chamber of the heart or a fluid-filled space in the brain.