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Basal Metabolic Rate
The rate at which het is produced when the body is at rest
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Biot's respirations
Respirations that are shallow for two or three breaths with a period of variable apnea
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Cardiac output
The pulse rate multiplied by the stroke volume
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Cheyne-Stokes respirations
Respirations that gradually become more shallow and are followed by periods of apnea with repitition of the pattern
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Core temperature
Temperature deep within the body
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Crisis
Abrupt decline in fever
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Defervescence
Abatement of fever
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Eupena
Normal, relaxed breathing pattern
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Febrile
A stage of fever in which the body temperature rises to the new set point established by the hypothalamus and remains there until there is resolution of the cause of the fever
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Hyperventilation
A pattern of breathing in which there is an increase in the rate and depth of breaths and carbon dioxide is "blown off," causing the blood level of the carbon dioxide to fall
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Korotkoff sounds
Sounds that relate to the effect of arterial wall vibrations during auscultation of blood pressure
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Kussmaul's respirations
Respirations having an increased rate and depth with panting and long, grunting exhalations
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Lysis
Breakdown, disintegration
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Pulse deficit
Deficit between the apical and radial pulse
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Pulse pressure
The difference between and systolic and diastolic pressure
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Pyrexia
Fever; when a body temperature rises above 100.2
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Pyrogens
A substance that causes fever
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Respiration
The exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the lungs and tissues, which is initiated by the act of breathing
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Rhonchi
continous dry, rattling sounds heard on auscultation of the lungs; caused by partial obstruction
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Shock
Condition of circulatory failure
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Stertor
Snoring sound produced when patients are unable to cough up secretions from the trachea or bronchi
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Stridor
Shrill, harsh sound on inspiration; caused by obstruction of the upper air passages, as occurs in croup or laryngitis
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Stroke volume
The volume of blood pushed into the aorta per heartbeat
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Wheeze
A high-pitched whistling sound of air forced past a partial obstruction, as found in asthma or emphysema
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