A&P Clinical App

is the condition of equilibirum in the body's internal environment due to the constant interaction of the body's many regulatory processes.

is a cycle of events in which the status of a body condition is monitored, evaluated, changed, remonitored, reevaluated, and so on.

• Palpation
• Auscultation
• Percussion

the examiner feels body surfaces with the hands.

examiner listens to body sounds to evaluate the functioning of certain organs, often using a stethoscope to amplify the sounds.

examiner taps on the body surface with the fingertips and listens to the resulting echo.

is a postmortem examination of the body and dissection of its internal organs to confirm or determine the cause of death.

is the science and skill of distinguishing one disorder from another.

consists of collecting information about events that might be related to a patients illness.

is an orderly evaluation of the body and its functions.

refers to techniques and procedures used to create images of the human body.

A single barrage of x-rays passes through the body, producing an image of interior structures on x-ray-sensitive film.

The body is exposed to a high-energy magnetic field, which causes protons in body fluids and tissues to arrange themselves in relation to the field.

Computer assisted radiography in which x-ray beam traces an arc at multiple angles around a section of the body.

High-frequency sound waves produced by a handheld wand reflect off body tissues and are detected by the same instrument.

A substance that emits positrons is injected into the body, where it is taken up by tissues.

A radionuclide is introduced intravenously into the body and carried by the blood to the tissue to be imaged.

The visual examination of the inside of body organs or cavities using a lighted instrument with lenses called an endoscope.

• Break apart molecules that pose threats to the human body.
• Can cause lung cancer.
• Use in medical imaging.

Radioisotopes used to follow the movement of certain substances through the body.

Cancer, athersclerosis, Alzheimer disease, emphysema, diabetes

Substances that inactivate oxygen derived free radicals.

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Essential to human health and cannot be produced by the body.