The Shift- Theresa Brown, RN
This week I read pages 1 to 94
Vocabulary WordsCavalry ( pg. 5) - n. Troops trained to fight on horseback or in light armored vehicles
Catastrophic ( pg. 11) - n. A great, often sudden calamity; disaster.
Sepsis ( pg. 13) - n. The presence in tissue of harmful bacteria and their toxins, typically through infection of a wound.
Doxorubicin ( pg. 33) - n. A bacterial antibiotic that is widely used to treat Leukemia and various other forms of cancer.
Paucity ( pg. 34) - n. The presence of something only in small or insufficient quantities or amounts; scarcity
Rituxan ( pg. 35) - A cancer medicine that interferes with the growth and spread of cancer cells in the body. Used to treat non-Hodjkin's lymphoma or chronic lymphocytic leukemia. One of the scariest treatments used against cancer.
Platelet ( pg. 39) - n. A small colorless disk- shaped cell fragment without a nucleus, found in large numbers in blood and involved in clotting.
Cascade ( pg. 43) - n. A process whereby something typically information or knowledge is successively passed on.
Saline ( pg. 46) - adj. Containing or impregnated with salt.
Neutrophil ( pg. 53) - n. A neutrophilic white blood cell ( fights against infection)
ANC ( pg. 58) - Absolute neutrophil count- measure of the number of neutrophil granulocytes present in the blood.
Hematology ( pg. 62) - n. The study of the physiology of the blood- study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood forming organs.
Abstemious ( pg. 63) - adj. Sparing or moderate in eating and drinking; temperature in diet.
Decompensate ( pg. 64) - verb. To lose the ability to maintain normal or appropriate psychological defenses, sometimes resulting in depression, anxiety, or delusions.
Sedate ( pg. 65) - adj. Calm, quiet, or composed, undisturbed by passion or excitement.
Aspirate ( pg. 72) - verb. To articulate so as to produce an audible puff of breath.
Vaccilate ( pg. 82) - verb. To waver in mind or opinion, be indecisive or irresolute.
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