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Aauscultation / Auscultacion

Action to listen to the sounds expressed by the organs.


Anaemia/ Anemia

Decrease of red blood cells in the blood or of his content in the haemoglobin


Anatomy/anatomia

It is a descriptive science that studies the internal structures of the living entities, that is to say the topography, the location, the disposition and the relation between yes of the organs that compose them.


Asthma / asma
The asthma is a chronic disease of the respiratory system characterized by airways you hyperreactivate, that is to say, an increase in the response broncoconstrictora of the bronchial tree.


APPENDIX XIFOIDES = XIFOIDES / xifoides apendice xifoides

And lower triangular portion of bone Sternum


Anti-bodies/ anticuerpos

The antibodies (also known as immunoglobulin) are glycoprotein’s of the type gamma globulin. They can be of soluble form in the blood or in other corporal fluids of the vertebrates, having an identical form that acts as recipient of the lymphocytes B and are used by the system inmunitario to identify and to neutralize such strange elements as bacteria, virus or parasites.


Antigenes/ antigeno

An antigen is a substance that unleashes the formation of antibodies and can cause an immune response. The modern definition includes all the substances that can be recognized by the immune adaptative system, well be own or foreign.


AINES/AINES

The antiinflammatory ones not asteroidean (abridged AINE) are a varied group and chemically heterogeneous of principally antiinflammatory, analgesic medicaments and antipyretics, for what they reduce the symptoms of the inflammation, the pain and the fever respectively


Asepsis/ asepsia

The asepsis is the free condition of microorganisms that produce diseases or infections.


Artery / arteria

It is each of the glasses that take the blood from the heart to other parts of the body


AUTOPSY / autopsia

Consideration of a body after death, to determine the causes of it.



B

Blood/sangre

It is a type of conjunctive specializing fabric, with a colloidal liquid counterfoil and a complex constitution. There has a solid phase (elements form, that it includes to the white blood cells, the red blood cells and the platelets and a liquid phase represented by the blood plasma.

His principal function is the logistics of distribution and systemic integration, which containment into the blood glasses (vascular space) admits his distribution (blood stream) towards almost the whole body.


Bile/bilis

The bile is a liquid alkaline yellowish substance produced by the liver of many vertebrates. It intervenes in the processes of digestion working like emulsionante of the oily acids (it is to say, they turn them into very small droplets that can be attacked by more facility by the digestive juices). It contains you work out biliary, proteins, cholesterol and hormones.


Bruise/ Hematoma

Extravasations of blood in a natural cavity or under the skin


Blood Pressure
BLOOD PRESSURE. Is the pressure exerted by blood on the walls of the arteries. It is measured in mm. Mercury (Hg.). For blood pressure are used and the Stethoscope Sphygmomanometer. / Sampling method: bloody and bloodless (Within the bloodless method, we find the auscultatory and Palpatorio). / MAXIMUM Systolic or between 120-140 mm.Hg.; minimum or diastolic between 70-90 mm. Hg.; / HYPERTENSION: Above figures above normal, more than 150 MAX. and more than 90 min.; Hypotension: less than 100, MAX. and less than 60 min.
High Systolic Blood Pressure and is the highest recorded in the apparatus when the arteries are full of heart contractions. It is the pressure that the heart pumps blood to the rest of the body (between 120 and 140 mm. Hg.).
Minimal or Diastolic Blood Pressure is the lowest point in the device when the heart relaxes. It is the resistance which the arteries and blood vessels to the passage of blood while the heart is recovered for re-pumping (between 70 and 90 mm. Hg.).


BASIC EMOTIONAL NEEDS
Basic emotional needs are the need for affection, acceptance, the Sufficiency, etc..
Daily fat or fat 80 gr. day; PROTEINS: 60-80 gr. day. / The FAT Calories in must represent the 25-35% PROTEIN Calories in must represent the 12-15%. Carbohydrates should represent a 55-60% calorie.


Bunions / juanetes
Deformation of the first phalanx of the big toe caused by diversion to the other fingers. SYMPTOMS: 1) The skin becomes thin at the scene of the deformity (the base of the thumb), 2) Sometimes fluid accumulates under the skin of the affected area, 3) of the foot pain and stiffness of the joint finger. CAUSES: Bunions occur when people are especially prone to using inappropriate footwear compress the toes. The case is worse if you have flat feet, if you suffer from inflammatory processes, etc.. The gastric juice gastric juice is secreted by the stomach and is involved in digestion. CONTENTS: mucus and enzymes. The normal gastric juice contains a ferment called Factor blood catla, this factor is necessary for the absorption of vitamin B12 (pernicious anemia produces its lack). View DIGESTION.



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Cirrhosis/cirrosis

It is a histopathology in which the cells of the parénquima of an organ I hospitalize anyone they are replaced, on having died, for an abnormal fabric of type cicatricial formed from the fabric estromal of the proper organ


Cystitis/cistiti

The infection of urine is provoked by the invasion of microorganisms in the urinary tract. It can take place (be produced) for two different routes: for the low end of the urinary tract (opening in the top of the penis or of the urethra, as it is a question of a man or of a woman), that it is the most frequent case; or across the blood flow, in whose case the infection concerns directly the kidneys. The infections of the most habitual urinary tract are the produced ones for bacteria, though also they can appear because of virus, fungi or parasites.


Cranium/cranea

It is a bony osseous box that it protects and contains to the encephalon principally. The human cranium is shaped by the joint of 8 bones,which form an opened and ovoid cavity of changeable thickness, by an approximate capacity of 1.450 ml (in adults).


Cough/ tos

expiration that opens violently the glottis produced by a phenomenon irritable.


Cyanosis/ Cianosis

Blue coloration of the skin proper to an insufficient oxygenation of the blood.


CHEMOTHERAPY / quimioterapia
When we act on a cause of a disease, administering pharmacy. View TUMORS.


CERVICAL INCOMPETENCE / incopetencia cervical
Were named to the inability of the cervix to stay closed during pregnancy. The solution, to avoid interruption of pregnancy is to perform an operation called Cerclage in the neck by a close sliding thread, which is removed at birth.

D

Diagnosis / Dignostico

To realize an evaluations about of a disease

Difficulty in breathing / disnea

Difficulty in the respiration with origin the respiratory device.

Diarrhea/ Diarrea

It is an alteration of the dregs as for volume, fluidize or frequency in abnormal relation to the physiological one, which carries a low absorption of liquids and nutrients, being able to be accompanied of pain, fever, nauseas, vomit, weakness or loss of the appetite.

Diet/dieta

A diet is the guideline that an animal follows consumption in the habitual consumption of food.

Disenfection/desinfección

It reduces the load of pathogenic organisms in the environment of his ship of birds it will diminish the risk of disease. The disinfectants are the chemical agents who can kill to the pathogenic organisms to the contact. Cleaning the place before the disinfection it exhibits to the pathogenic organisms to the disinfectant.

Digestive device/aparato digestivo

The digestive device is the set of organs (mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine and large intestine) managers of the process of the digestion, that is to say, the transformation of the food in order that they could be absorbed and used by the cells of the organism.

The function that it realizes is that of transport (food), secretion (digestive juices), absorption (nutrients) and excretion (by means of the process of defecation).

Deep/ coma

It is a severe condition(state) of loss of conscience, which can ensue from a great variety of conditions including the poisonings (drugs, alcohol or toxins), metabolic anomalies (hypoglycemia, hyperglycemias, ketosis), diseases of the nervous central system, ictus, traumatism encephalic cranium, convulsions and hypoxia. The metabolic reasons are the most frequent

Delirium/ Delirio

The patient is disconnected of the reality, with incoherent ideas, illusions and hallucinations

Diaphoresis/ Diaforesis

Intense Secretion of sweat with elevation of the corporal temperature.)


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Edema/ edema

Swelling of the subcutaneous tissue or of other organs.


Erogenous zones
Those parts of the body such as breasts or genitals, are especially sensitive to sexual stimulation.


Epilepsy/epilepsia

A " neurological chronic disorder characterized by a predisposition of the brain to generate epileptic attacks appellants, and for the consequences neurobiológicas, cognitive, psychological and social of this condition ".


Epidemic/ epidemia

It is a description in the community health that happens when a disease affects a top number of individuals to waited in a population during a certain time.


Endocrine system/ sistema endocrino

The endocrine or hormonal system is a set of organs and fabrics of the organism(organisation) that liberate a type of substances called hormones and is constituted besides these, for specializing cells and endocrine glands. It(he,she) acts as a network of cellular communication that answers to the stimuli liberating hormones and he is the manager of diverse metabolic functions of the organism(organisation); between(among) them we find:

* To control the intensity of chemical functions in the cells.

* To govern the transport of substances across the membranes of the cells.

* To regulate the balance (homeostasis) of the organism(organisation).

* Make appear the sexual secondary characteristics.

* Other aspects of the metabolism of the cells, as growth and secretion



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Falanga / falages
Each of the bones that form the skeleton of the fingers. From inside out: Falanga, FALANGINA and FALANGETA. / HAND: 3 Phalange each finger except the thumb which has only two (Falange and Falangeta). And two (Falange and Falangeta).

FECES / heces
They are the remnants of digestion, fecal droppings.



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Glore/ guantes

Bidirectional barrier between the sanitary personnel and the environment with which this one takes contact across his hands:

They reduce the possibility that the present microorganisms in the hands of the personnel are transmitted to the patients during the accomplishment of tests or taken care of the pacientes and of a few patients to others.


Genitary device / aparato urinario

The device excretory is a set of organs in charge of the elimination of the nitrogenous residues of the metabolism, known by the medicine as urine; that it shapes the urea and the creatinina. His architecture consists of structures that leak the corporal fluids (liquid celomático, hemolinfa, bleeds). In the invertebrates the basic unit of filtration is the nephritis, whereas in the vertebrates it is the nefrona or nefrón. The urinary human device consists, fundamentally, of two parts that are:

* The organs secretors’: kidney, which produce the urine and other functions recover

* The route excretory that gathers the urine and expels her on the outside.



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Health/ Salud

Condition of an organic exempt being of diseases.


Haemorrhage / Hemorragia

Exit of blood out of the blood vessels.


Haemodialysis / Hemodialisis

Method of blood purification.


HELMINTHS / helmintico
Intestinal worm parasite.


HEMARTROS/ hemartros
Presence or effusion of blood in a cavity


Hematemesis / Hematemesis
Expulsion with vomiting of blood from the digestive system



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Illness/ enfermedad

The disease is a process and the consistent status of affection of an alive being, characterized by an alteration of his ontological condition of health


Indigestion / indigestion
Stomach pain, stomach expands due to gas or acid in it. / Digestion disorder characterized by feelings of discomfort (no apparent organic cause), after eating or drinking. Symptoms can last for months. CAUSES: 1) very spicy, spicy foods, 2) Fast food and states of stress, 3) Excess of meat, 4) Food allergy; 5) Smoking; 6) Alcohol abuse. SYMPTOMS: 1) Acidity of stomach, need to burp; 2) Nausea mild 3) Pain in abdomen; 4) bloating, gas and flatulence.


Injure/ herida

A wound is an injury that takes place in the body of a human being or animal. It can be produced for multiple reasons, though generally it is due to blows or tears in the skin. Depending on his gravity, it is a necessary medical assistance.


Iatrogenic / yatrogenia

Illness caused by drugs.


Injection/ inyeccion

The injection is a procedure by means of which one makes spend a liquid or a viscous material across a pipe or a circular conduit for a certain end.


Infiltration/ Infiltracion

Slow step of a liquid across the interstices of a body.)


Inflammation/ Inflamacion

Pathological reaction that appear as consequence of a traumatic aggression.)


IODINE/ yodo

Essential for the proper functioning of the thyroid (thyroid hormones to produce). Their deficit in the intake causing a disturbance known as goiter. The normal daily intake should be between 100-200 mg. View Goiter and thyroid.


Syringe SUPPLY / Jeringa SUMINISTRO

50 ml syringe. which is connected to a nasogastric tube (NGT) and is used for feeding the patient. We must introduce the food slowly and continuously.

Syringes - Comments 1) They can be glass or polystyrene; 2) The glass is reused if sterilized, 3) are normally used to inject a suitable volume, 4) The barrel is graduated in cubic centimeters


INFERTILITY / infertilidad
Inability to get pregnant for a woman or a man for a pregnant woman sterility.
Infestation is the presence in the human or animal body of macroscopic parasites (protozoa and metazoa). For example, the plasmodium that causes malaria is a protozoan.

ILEUM / ileo
The terminal ileum is the region of the small intestine below the jejunum.

IMPOTENCE / impotensia

Male sexual dysfunction that results in the inability to achieve or maintain an erection necessary for sexual intercourse or ejaculate. SYMPTOMS: 1) Inability to achieve an erection, 2) inability to maintain an erection for normal sexual intercourse (erections may be weak, painful or too short). CAUSES: 1) Side effects of drugs, 2) heart disease; 3) Alcohol, drugs, 4) Problems partner; 5) hypertension, stress, 6) Surgery; 7) hormonal imbalance; 8) Lack of information; 9) Problems genitals. COMMENTS: impotence is diagnosed when an erection is not achieved at least 50% of the occasions on which attempts.

INCINERATION / incineracion

Get ashes by crematoria destroyed by burning objects and waste.


INCUBATOR / incubadora
Apparatus used for the medical care of premature babies. WATCH: When the care of an incubator is to monitor temperature, humidity and oxygen concentration



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Jejunum/ yeyuno

Installment of the Small Intestine of about 2 meters long, located between the duodenum and the ileum. View small intestine.


Jaundice / ictericia
Yellowing of skin, mucous secretions and the presence of bile pigments (bilirubin). It is a sign that appears in anemia, liver diseases and in the pathology of the biliary tract. / It is an objective sign of illness.



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KERATIN / QUERATINA

Sulfur and insoluble protein that forms the core of the horny cells of the epidermis and appearing in large numbers in the nails and hair.


Keratitis / Queratitis

Is the inflammation of the cornea



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LANGUAGE / lengua
It is a muscular organ covered by mucosa in its dorsal part presents some taste buds, where the pleasure lies in the lower panel presents a mucosal fold is known as braces. Language emerge from the floor of the mouth.

LEUKEMIA / leucemia
TUMORS are affecting bone marrow, lymphatic system and spleen. It is characterized by an irregular and disorganized growth of Leucocytes. No one knows the cause, but are known factors such as high dose of radiation.

Leucocytes / leucocitos
Also called white blood cells, there are between 9,000 and 10,000 units per mm3 of blood. Act to defend the body of harmful agents. There are three main types of leukocytes: granulocytes, monocytes and lymphocytes. See white blood cells.

Leukocytosis / leucocitos

Transient rise in blood-leukocytes. Generally occurs during digestion and during pregnancy, but can also be a syndrome of infectious disease. For very high figures of speech are LEUCOMOIDE REACTION.


Liver / higado

The liver is an organ or visceral of the human and, body simultaneously, the most voluminous gland of the anatomy and one of the most important as for the metabolic activity of the organism. It recovers the only and vital functions as the synthesis of plasmatic proteins, function desintoxicante, store of vitamins, glycogen, etc. In addition, he is the person in charge of eliminating of the blood the substances that can turn out to be harmful to the organism, transforming them into innocuous others


Laryngitis/ laryngitis

The laryngitis is a respiratory sharp infection that it deals with inflammation of the larynx, with I initiate typically in the night. The larynx is a structure that one finds in the entry of the respiratory device and that allows the step of the air from the pharynx up to the trachea. In her the vocal chords are located.

The laryngitis, except very rare exceptions, is caused by virus. There are in the habit of being annual epidemics between November and of March, nevertheless, it is necessary to consider the hemisphere for the dates of major number of cases, since the climatic conditions are different for both hemispheres in a certain month, as well as also there can be moderately well isolated cases.



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Malnutrition/ Desnutricion

Damage of the organism for a deficient nutrition or of upset of the organism).


Microorganism/ microorganismo

The microorganisms are very small forms of life that only can be observed across the microscope. In this group the bacteria are includes, the virus, the mildews and the yeasts


MAMAS / mamas

(in women)
Are exocrine glands. They are composed of glandular tissue, fat and abundant connective tissue. Present 15 to 20 lobes (mammary glands) that arrive through the milk ducts to the exterior of the nipple. FUNCTION: produce milk for the newborn. / Breasts are not muscles, but is maintained through the thin ligaments that hold the skin in front and behind the chest.

Maceration / maceracion
Softening of a tissue.


Macrophages / Macrófagos

Mobile cell reticular endothelial system capable of phagocyte foreign bodies and dead cells in the body. Macrophages are the most common histiocytes as well as certain types of leukocytes.

Macul Erithemathosus / macula eritematosa
Altering the color of the skin. They are reddish patches of vascular origin. Also called purple.


Myocardial Infarction
/ infarto miocardio
It consists of necrosis of a portion of the heart muscle (myocardium) because of lack of irrigation of the coronary arteries which is ischemia or a lack of oxygen. Is the leading cause of death in the Western world. Affects several vital organs, not just the heart. CAUSES: The two most important causes are atherosclerosis and obstruction by Tromba or a plunger. SYMPTOMS: Cursa with chest pain not relieved by rest or taking vasodilators, lasts about 30 minutes or more and its location is similar to angina. The pain spreads from the middle of the chest to the sternum and into the jaw, neck, arms, shoulder blades and upper abdomen. Also produces nausea, vomiting, dyspnea, paleness, cold sweats, anxiety, cyanosis and arrhythmias. RISK FACTORS: Diet rich in fat and cholesterol, snuff, obesity, inactivity, hypertension, diabetes and family history of heart attack. View angina and INSUFFICIENCY
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NAUSEA/ nauseas

sensation of wanting to vomit. Produced by digestive disorders, early pregnancy, unpleasant memories, etc.


NECROSIS / necrosis

morphological changes indicating death of cells or tissues.

Nicturia / Nicturia

Emission of urine during the night.

Nurse/ enfermera

The Nursing is the science of the care of the health of the human being. It is a discipline that in the last century and particularly in the last years it has been defining increasingly his functions inside the sciences of the health.

Nervous system/ sistema nervioso

The nervous system is a highly specializing network of fabrics, in two vital functions for the animals: The relation and the Control, which is effected by other organs in the animals. Besides that it is affected also by the external way, in order to manage homeostasis to


NOSOCOMIAL
/ nosocomial
Which appears in a patient hospitalized for a different process of hospitalization. The most common site of nosocomial infections occur in the urinary tract.

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Obesity / Obesidad

Pathological increase of the fat, which determine a weight superior to the normal.

Oxygenotherapy / oxigenoterapia
Procedure which involves the administration by inhalation of oxygen to a patient, usually mixed in with different values of air concentration. Given concentrations of between 24% and 100%, although the usual percentage of oxygen in the range between 24% -28%. / The concentration of oxygen in air is 20%.

Operating Room / Sala de operaciones
Area of the hospital where the surgeries are performed. AREAS of the Operating Room: 1) no limitation of access: at the entrance and separated by a hall door access, 2) exchange: where are the rest rooms and changing rooms of health personnel intervener; 3) access semilimitado: requires the use of pajamas working two parts, footwear specific but common to the operating room or covered with plastic shoes and a hat to cover her hair; 4) Restricted Area: In that required the mandatory use of masks. It covers: the antequirófano the operating room and laundry room pre-surgical hand and arm.



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Patient/ paciente

The patient is someone who suffers pain or discomfort (many diseases cause diverse inconveniences, and a great number of patients also suffer pain).


Analgesic / analgesico

An analgesic is a medicine that calms or eliminates the pain.

Though it is possible to use the term(end) for any substance or mechanism that reduces the pain, generally one says to a set of medicaments, of chemical different families that they calm or eliminate the pain for different mechanisms.


Pain / dolor

Sensation of physical suffering.


Poisoning/ intoxicacion

A poisoning takes place for the ingestion or for the inhalation of toxic substances


Palpation/ palpacion

It is the diagnostic technology that uses the tact of the external parts of the body or of the accessible part of the cavities. To feel consists of touching something with the hands to know it by means of the sense of the tact. This act provides information about form, size, consistency, surface, dampness, sensibility and mobility.


POINT / incisivos
Each of the 4 teeth in the form of a shovel in the front and center of each jaw.


Phagocytosis / Fagositosis

Process by which certain cells (such as leukocytes or macrophages of connective tissue) capture particles of a few microns in diameter.


Pharmacology / farmacologia

It is the science that studies the origin, the actions and the properties that the chemical substances exercise on the alive organisms. In a more strict sense the pharmacology is considered to be the study of the medicaments, be that those have beneficial or toxic effects. The pharmacology has clinical applications when the substances are used in the diagnosis, prevention, treatment and relief of symptoms of a disease.


Poliuria/poliuria

Emission of a quantity of urine upper to the normal.

Piuria/piuria

Presence of pus in the urine.


Puerperal infection
/ infeccion puerperal
Localized infection in the female genital tract during the puerperium. SYMPTOMS: High fever, uterine tenderness and a painful enlarged in size. The loqui often smelly.


Physiological solution / solucion fisiologico

Saline solution of certain composition and isotónica with the blood plasma.


Pancreatic juice / jugos pancreatico

Proceeds from the exocrine pancreatic secretion, which is released into the small intestine (Duodenum) and is involved in digestion. View PÁNCREASa digestion and intestinal parasites have to be a man of metazoan



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QUILÍFERO/ QUILÍFERO

Lymphatic vessel located in the intestinal villi, which absorb fatty acids.


QUILA / quilo

Liquid present in the lymphatic vessels of the small intestine, similar to the lymph, which is the transformation of the food bolus by gastric juices.


QUIM/ quimo

Fluid located in the stomach, caused by the action of gastric juice on foodstuffs. / They are the food, once ingested by the stomach. See gastric juice and Quiles.



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Red blood cells / Los glóbulos rojos

Erythrocytes or red blood cells. There are between 4.5 and 5.5 million per mm3 of blood. Its half-life is approximately 120 days. Transporting oxygen from the lung alveoli to the tissues (for hemoglobin-red pigment).


Respiratory device / aparato respiratorio

the only cells that have no nucleus.

The respiratory device generally includes pipes, as the bronchi, used to load air in the lungs, where the gaseous exchange happens. The diaphragm like any muscle can contract and to relax. On the lungs having relaxed on having possessed space they expand to fill with air and on the same one having contracted it is expelled. These respiratory systems change in agreement to the organism.

In human beings and other mammals, the respiratory system consists of airways, lungs and respiratory muscles that were measuring in the movement of the air so much in as out(like out) of the body. Gas exchange: it is the exchange of oxygen and dioxide of carbon, of the animal with his way.


RH FACTOR / factor RH
Mucoproteína located in red blood cells. If the person has mucoproteína this is said to be Rh positive, if it is not RH negative.



S

S.I.D.A. / s.i.d.a
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Clinical situation in which the body repeatedly succumb to infections due to a weakened immune system. It is caused by the V.I.H. (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). The routes of transmission of S.I.D.A. are sexual, parenteral exposure to infected blood by sharing needles.



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Traumatism / Traumatismo

Injuries of the cutaneous coating that interest a tissue or an organ.


Tumour/ Tumor

Pathological increase of the volume of the tissue or of an organ.


To dilate / dilatacion

Increase of the size of a natural conduit


Tibial malleolus / Maléolo tibial

It is part of the ankle in its inner part. Protuberance on each side of the ankle.



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Urinary Incontinence / incontinencia urinaria
It is the inadvertent or uncontrolled release of urine from the bladder.
It may be temporary (in the case of cystitis) or permanent (in the case of a neurological injury). CAUSES: 1) In women occurs because the urethra is very short and lost the support that the muscle attached to the base of the pelvis. These changes occur during pregnancy and shortly after the birth of a baby (especially if it is not the first) 2) in men is usually due to damage to the urethra, as well as surgery, radiotherapy or cancer that may have damaging urinary sphincter; 3) There may be other physical causes such as muscular disorders that affect the urethra, tumors, obstruction of the urinary tract ... 4) There are neurological diseases that can cause incontinence, such as senile dementia and Alzheimer's; 5) Obesity and diabetes; 6) Alterations in the central nervous system or spinal cord. / COMMENTS: 1) The risk factors specific to women, its causes higher incidence in this group; 2) The economic and psychological causes are enormous.



V

Vaccine / vacuna

It is prepared of antigens that once inside the organism there provokes a response of assault, named antibody. This response generates immunological memory producing, in most cases, permanent immunity opposite to the disease

Valve

Are lesions of the heart valves. The most common Stenosis and insufficient. The sign common to all valve is the presence of a heart murmur (noise caused by the turbulence that causes blood to pass through a difficult passage)


VARICELLA / varicela
Contagious disease caused by the action of the varicella-zoster virus. SYMPTOMS: These are mild in children and are more severe in adults: 1) fever, 2) abdominal pain, malaise; 3) Rash of small red spots which develop into blisters. Come out almost the entire body and are renewed every four or five days; 4) Adults also develop symptoms like the flu. CAUSES: The varicella infection due to herpes zoster virus. It is highly contagious and spreads through contact with infected persons (for the tiny drops of saliva-droplets expelled Pflugee that by talking, coughing or sneezing or by touching the blisters of chickenpox own). It has an incubation period of between 7 and 21 days.

Varicosis / varicosis
Are dilatations that occur in the veins which cause general failure of the venous valves. They are located mainly in the legs and also tend to be frequent in the esophagus (esophageal varices) and in the ano-rectal plexus (Haemorrhoids). SYMPTOMS: A feeling of heaviness, pain, itching, tiredness, cramps. If you are long in the lower limbs is a dark pigmentation of the skin or even an ulcer. CAUSES: 1) is usually due to a congenital insufficiency of venous valves (the folds located in the inner wall of the veins to prevent blood back into his path and leaves the heart to normal), 2) can also be Thrombophlebitis to, or the pressure of the veins during pregnancy. COMMENTS: 1) They are usually located in the lower extremities, 2) The long standing is a factor that exacerbates the process, 3) The feeling of heaviness, pain and itching are the usual symptoms, 4) Hemorrhoids are one of its variants .


VAGINAL INFECTION / infeccion vagina
Vaginal infections can occur for many reasons ranging from pregnancy, undergarments of synthetic fabrics, diabetes, sexual intercourse with an infected partner, and so on. The clinical symptoms are itching, burning after urination and increased vaginal discharge.


Vasectomy / vasectomia
Reserción surgical vas deferens of the male genital tract so that sperm can not reach the pass and semen as a means of contraception. / Vasectomy is an operation whose aim is to achieve male sterility.


Virus/ virus

It is a biological entity that to answer guest needs from a cell


VASO / vaso
Route by flowing blood. There are two types of vessels: arteries and veins. They also appear smaller caliber vessels such as arterioles, the venules and capillaries. See blood vessels.

Vasoconstriction Narrowing of blood vessels by the contraction of smooth muscle in their walls. / The application of prolonged cold produces vasoconstriction.


X

X- rayos

The denomination X-rays designates to an electromagnetic, invisible radiation, capable of crossing opaque bodies and of impressing the photographic movies.


Z

Zoophilia / zoofilia
Form of sexual behavior that includes sexual contact with animals: bestiality.


Zoonoses / zoonosis
Pass
infections from animals to humans (it is not contagious from person to person). Infections by indirect contact. Some are diseases. Some zoonoses are: Anthrax, hydatidosis, brucellosis, rabies, trichinellosis (type of zoonosis caused by a parasite).


Zygote / zigoto
Cell origin, by successive divisions will develop the multicellular organism. From the meeting of oocytes or ova Maternal and Paternal Spermatozoa. In the human species has a nucleus containing 46 chromosomes.

ZONE Asept / zona septica
Sterile area. View asepsis and aseptic









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