| A | B |
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| ABSCESS | LOCALIZED COLLECTION OF PUS IN ANY PART OF THE BODY |
| ALBUMIN | A CLASS OF SIMPLE, WATER-SOLUBLE PROTEINS THAT CAN BE COAGULATED BY HEAT AND PRECIPITATED BY STRONG ACIDS AND ARE FOUND IN EGG WHITE, BLOOD SERUM, MILK AND MANY OTHER ANIMAL AND PLANT JUICES AND TISSUE |
| ALTERED TISSUE PERFUSION | WHEN OXYGENATED BLOOD DOES NOT FLOW FREELY THROUGH THE VESSELS TO THE TISSUE |
| ANGIOGENESIS | THE FORMATION OF NEW BLOOD VESSELS, ESPECIALLY BLOOD VESSELS THAT SUPPLY OXYGEN AND NUTRIENTS TO CANCEROUS TISSUE |
| ANTERIOR | SITUATED AT OR DIRECTED TOWARD THE FRONT; OPPOSITE OF POSTERIOR |
| APOPTOSIS | PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH, A PROCESS INCLUDING COAGULATIVE NECROSIS AND SHRINKAGE |
| ARTERIAL INSUFFICIENCY | LACK OF PERFUSION FROM THE ARTERIES |
| AUTOLYSIS | DISINTEGRATION OF TISSUE OR OF CELLS BY THE BODY'S OWN MECHANISMS |
| AVASCULAR | WITHOUT VASCULARIZATION |
| CAPILLARIES | SMALL, THIN-MEMBRANED, PERMEABLE BLOOD VESSELS THAT LINK ARTERIOLES AND VENULES, FEEDING AND REMOVING WASTES FROM THE TISSUES THROUGH WHICH THEY PASS |
| CELL MIGRATION | MOVEMENT OF CELLS IN THE REPAIR PROCESS |
| CELLULITIS | INFLAMMATION OF TISSUE AROUND A LESION, CHARACTERIZED BY REDNESS, SWELLING, AND TENDERNESS. SIGNIFIES A SPREADING OF INFECTIOUS PROCESS |
| COAGULATION | THE CLOTTING OF BLOOD |
| COCCYX | TAIL BONE |
| COLLAGEN | MAIN SUPPORTIVE PROTEIN OF SKIN, TENDON, BONE, CARTILAGE, AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE |
| DEBRIDEMENT | REMOVAL OF DEVITALIZED TISSUE AND FOREIGN MATTER FROM A WOUND |
| AUTOLYTIC DEBRIDEMENT | THE USE OF SYNTHETIC DRESSINGS TO COVER A WOUND AND ALLOW ESCHAR TO SELF DIGEST BY THE ACTION OF ENZYMES PRESENT IN WOUND FLUIDS |
| ENZYMATIC DEBRIDEMENT | AKA CHEMICAL DEBRIDMENT; THE TOPICAL APPLICATION OF PROTEOLYTIC SUBSTANCES TO BREAK DOWN DEVITALIZED TISSUE |
| MECHANICAL DEBRIDEMENT | REMOVAL OF FOREIGN MATERIAL AND DEVITALIZED OR CONTAMINATED TISSUE FROM A WOUND BY PHYSICAL FORCES. EX: WET TO DRY DRSGS, WOUND IRRIGATION, WHIRLPOOL |
| SHARP DEBRIDEMENT | REMOVAL OF FOREIGN MATERIAL OR DEVITALIZED TISSUE BY A SHARP INSTRUMENT SUCH AS A SCALPEL. |
| DERMIS | THE SENSITIVE VASCULAR INNER MESODERMIC LAYER OF THE SKIN |
| DEHISCE | TO SPLIT ALONG A NATURAL LINE |
| DENUDE | TO DIVEST OF A COVERING |
| DIABETES | DISEASE CHARACTERIZED BY AN INABILITY TO PROCESS SUGARS IN THE DIET, DUE TO A DECREASE OR TOTAL ABSENCE OF INSULIN PRODUCTION. |
| DIALYSIS | PROCESS OF FILTERING AND REMOVING WASTE PRODUCTS FROM THE BLOODSTREAM. 2 MAIN TYPES ARE HEMO AND PERITONEAL. |
| DISTAL | REMOTE; FARTHER AWAY FROM ANY POINT OF REFERENCE |
| EDEMA | THE PRESENCE OF ABNORMALLY LARGE AMTS OF FLUID IN THE INTERSTITIAL SPACE |
| ELECTROLYTES | ANY OF THE IONS THAT IN A BIOLOGICAL FLUID REGULATE OR AFFECT MOST METABOLIC PROCESSES USED ESPECIALLY IN BIOLOGY AND CHEM |
| EPIDERMIS | THE OUTTER NONSENSITIVE AND NONVASCULAR LAYER OF THE SKIN |
| EPITHELIAZATION | REGENERATION OF THE EPIDERMIS ACROSS WOUND SURFACE |
| ERYTHEMA | REDNESS OF THE SKIN SURFACE PRODUCED BY VASODILATION |
| ESCHAR | AVASCULAR TISSUE FOUND IN A WOUND THAT IS CHARACTERIZED BY A DARK AND LEATHERY APPEARANCE |
| ETIOLOGY | THE CAUSE OR ORIGIN OF A DISEASE OR DISORDER AS DETERMINED BY MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS |
| EXCORIATION | SUPERFICIAL TRAUMATIC ABRASIONS AND SCRATCHES WHICH REMOVE SOME OF THE SKIN SURFACE |
| EXCRETION | A WASTE PRODUCT ELIMINATED FROM THE BODY |
| EXUDATE | MATERIAL WHICH HAS ESCAPED FROM BLOOD VESSELS AND HAS BEEN DEPOSITED IN TISSUE SURFACES |
| FASCIA | A SHEET OR BAND OF FIBROUS TISSUE THAT LIES DEEP BELOW THE SKIN OR ENCLOSES MUSCLES AND VARIOUS ORGANS OF THE BODY |
| FIBROBLAST | ANY CELL OR CORPUSCLE FROM WHICH CONNECTIVE TISSUE IS DEVELOPED |
| FIBRIN | AN INSOLUBLE PROTEIN THAT IS ESSENTIAL TO CLOTTING OF BLOOD, FROM FROM FIBRINOGEN BY ACTION OF THROMBIN |
| FIBRINOGEN | A PROTEIN IN THE BLOOD PLASMA THAT IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE COAGULATION OF THE BLOOD AND IS CONVERTED TO FIBRIN BY THROMBIN AND IONIZED CALCIUM |
| FULL THICKNESS TISSUE LOSS | TISSUE DESTRUCTION EXTENDING THROUGH THE DERMIS TO INVOLVE THE SUB-Q LAYER AND POSSIBLY MUSCLE/BONE |
| GRANULATION TISSUE | THE PINK/RED, MOIST TISSUE THAT CONTIAINS NEW BLOOD VESSELS, COLLAGEN, FIBROBLASTS AND INFLAMMATORY CELLS, WHICH FILLS AN OPEN, PREVIOUSLY DEEP WOUND WHEN IT STARTS TO HEAL |
| GROWTH FACTORS | PROTEINS THAT AFFECT THE PROLIFERATION, MOVEMENT, MATURATION AND BIOSYNTHETIC ACTIVITY OF THE CELLS. |
| HEMOSTASIS | THE STOPPING OF BLEEDING OR BLOOD FLOW THROUGH A BLOOD VESSEL OR ORGAN. IN WOUND HEALING, THIS IS THE FIRST PHASE |
| HOMEOSTASIS | THE STATE OF BALANCE IN THE INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE BODY ACHIEVED BY VARIOUS CONTROL MECHANISMS |
| HYDRATION | THE INTRODUCTION OF ADDITIONAL FLUID INTO THE BODY |
| HYDROPHYLIC | ATTRACTING MOISTURE |
| HYDROPHOBIC | REPELLING MOISTURE |
| HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY (HBO) | A TREATMENT IN WHICH THE PATIENT IS PLACED IN A CHAMBER AND BREATHES OXYGEN AT HIGHER-THAN-ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE |
| IMPEDIMENT | SOMETHING THAT IMPEDES; A HINDRANCE OR AN OBSTRUCTION |
| INCONTINENCE | INABILITY TO CONTROL EVACUATIVE FUNCTIONS, SUCH AS DEFECATION OR URINATION |
| INFECTION | THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PATHOGEN IN ITS HOST AFTER INVASION |
| INFERIOR | A PART OF THE BODY LOCATED BELOW ANTOHER; THE OPPOSITE OF SUPERIOR |
| INFLAMMATION | A PROTECTIVE TISSUE RESPONSE TO INJURY OR DESTRUCTION OF TISSUES, WHICH SERVES TO DESTROY, DILUTE, OR WALL OFF BOTH THE INJURIOUS AGENT AND THE INJURED TISSUES. CLASSIC SIGNS: PAIN, HEAT, REDNESS, AND SWELLING |
| ISCHEMIA | A DEFICIENCY OF BLOOD DUE TO FUNCTIONAL CONTSTRICTION OR OBSTRUCTION OF A BLOOD VESSEL TO A PART |
| LATERAL | ON THE SIDE |
| MACERATION | SOFTENING OF TISSUE BY SOAKING IN FLUIDS |
| MACROSTRAIN | THE VISIBLE CONTRACTION OF WOUND EDGES UNDER NEGATIVE PRESSURE |
| MALLEOLUS | ANKLE BONE |
| MEDIAL | TOWARD THE MIDDLE |
| METABOLISM | THE CHEMICAL CHANGES IN LIVING CELLS BY WHICH ENERGY IS PROVIDED FOR VITAL PROCESS AND ACTIVITIES AND NEW MATERIAL IS ASSIMILATED |
| MICRODEFORMATION | THE DEFORMATION OF TISSUE AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL AS CELLS ARE STRETCHED WITH VAC GRANUFOAM UNDER NEGATIVE PRESSURE |
| MICROSTRAIN | A UNIT OF MEASUREMENT OF STRAIN |
| MICROORGANISM | AN ORGANISM OF MICROSCOPIC OR ULTRAMICROSCOPIC SIZE |
| NECROTIC TISSUE | AVASCULAR TISSUE THAT IS DEAD OR DEVITALIZED |
| NEUROPATHY | A CONDITION AFFECTING THE NERVES SUPPLYING THE ARMS AND LEGS |
| PARTIAL THICKNESS TISSUE LOSS | LOSS OF EPIDERMIS AND POSSIBLE PARTIAL LOSS OF DERMIS. DOES NOT EXTEND INTO THE SUB-Q FAT OR BELOW |
| PERFUSION | THE PASSAGE OF FLUID THROUGH A SPECIFIC ORGAN OR AREA OF THE BODY |
| PERISTALSIS | A SEQUENCE OF MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS THAT PROGRESSIVELY SQUEEZE ONE SMALL SECTION OF THE DIGESTIVE TRACT AND THEN THE NEXT TO PUSH FOOD ALONG THE TRACT |
| PLANTAR | PERTAINING TO THE SOLE OF THE FOOT |
| POSTERIOR | DIRECTED TOWARD OR SITUATED AT THE BACK; OPPOSITE OF ANTERIOR |
| PRESSURE ULCER | OPEN WOUNDS THAT FORM WHENEVER PROLONGED PRESSURE |
| PRIMARY INTENTION | A METHOD OF WOUND CLOSURE USING SUTURES, STAPLES, OR SURGICAL BOND TO APPROXIMATE WOUND EDGES |
| PROLIFERATION | THE GROWTH AND REPRODUCTION OF SIMILAR CELLS. 3RD PHASE OF WOUND HEALING |
| PRONE | THE BODY LAYING FACE DOWN |
| PROXIMAL | NEAREST TO A POINT OF REFERENCE, AS TO A CENTER OR MEDIAN LINE OR TO THE POINT OF ATTACHMENT OR ORIGIN |
| PURULENCE | EXUDATE CONSISTING OF OR CONTAINING PUS |
| PUS | THICK FLUID CONTAINING LEUKOCYTES, BACTERIA, AND CELLULAR DEBRIS |
| REMODELING | THE FINAL DIFFERENTIATION PROCESSES IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, SUCH AS THE ATTAINMENT OF TOTAL FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITY BY A CELL, TISSUE OR AN ORGAN. IN WOUND HEALING, THIS IS THE 4TH PHASE OF HEALING AND IS SEEN AS SCAR FORMATION (MATURATION) |
| SACRUM | TRIANGULAR BONE AT THE BASE OF THE SPINE |
| SECONDARY INTENTION | A METHOD OF WOUND CLOSURE USED ON LARGE DEFICIT WOUNDS THAT CANNOT BE CLOSED WITH SUTURES, THIS METHOD LEAVES THE WOUND OPEN TO HEAL FROM THE INSIDE OUT |
| SENESCENT CELLS | FOUND IN CHRONIC WOUNDS, THESE ARE OLD CELLS THAT ARE UNRESPONSIVE AND UNABLE TO DIVIDE |
| SEROMA | A COLLECTION OF SERUM/PLASMA WITHIN A WOUND |
| SLOUGH | NECROTIC TISSUE IN THE PROCESS OF SEPARATING FROM VIABLE PORTIONS OF THE BODY. IN WOUNDS, THIS TISSUE IS USUALLY YELLOW OR CREAMY IN COLOR, MOIST AND STRINGY |
| SUPERIOR | SITUATED IN A HIGHER POSITION ON THE BODY, CLOSER TO THE HEAD AND FARTHER FROM THE FEET |
| SUPINE | A BODY LYING FACE UP ON THE BACK |
| TERTIARY INTENTION | A METHOD OF WOUND CLOSURE USED ON CONTAMINATED OR "DIRTY" WOUNDS LEAVING THEM OPEN FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME FOR CLEANSING AND DISINFECTING AND THEN CLOSED WITH SUTURES, STAPLES, OR SURGICAL BOND |
| ULCER | A LOCAL DEFECT, OR EXCAVATION OF THE SURFACE, OF AN ORGAN OR TISSUE, PRODUCED BY SLOUGHING OF NECROTIC INFLAMMATORY TISSUE |
| VASCULAR | PERTAINING TO VESSELS, PARTICULARLY BLOOD VESSELS |
| VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY | LACK OF PERFUSION FROM THE VEINS |
| VENOUS STASIS | THE POOLING OF VENOUS BLOOD IN A PARTICULAR REGION WHICH, IN THE LEGS RESULTS IN EDEMA, HYPERPIGMENTATION AND POSSIBLY ULCERATION |
| WOUND BED PREPARATION | THE MGMT OF THE WOUND TO ACCELERATE ENDOGENOUS HEALING OR TO FACILITATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF OTHER THERAPEUTIC MEASURES |
| WOUND MARGIN | RIM OR BORDER OF WOUND |
