Med Micro Block Test 1 – terms for clinical features/factors – Flashcards
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Unlock answers| Septicemia |
| blood poisoning, invasion of the blood stream by microorganisms from a focus of infection |
| Cellulitis |
| inflammation of body tissue characterized by fever, swelling, redness and pain |
| Epiglottitis |
| inflammation of the epiglottis and surrounding structures |
| Otitis media |
| inflammation of the middle ear/middle ear infection |
| Granuloma inguinale |
STI rarely seen in the US symptoms can appear 1 to 12 weeks after infection with the bacteria |
| Leptospirosis |
| rare and severe bacterial infection caused when people are exposed to certain environments, symptoms can take 2 to 26 days to develop |
| Angiomatosis |
non-neoplatic syndrome presenting with little knots of capillaries in multiple organs
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| Pyelonephritis |
an ascending urinary tract infection that has reached the pelvis of the kidney
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| Pelvic inflammatory disease |
| infection of the uterus, fallopian tubes, and/or ovaries |
| Bacillary dysentery |
| severe form of shigellosis |
| Erysipeloid |
cellulitis characterized by painful, puritic, inflammatory skin lesions
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| Puritic |
| causes the urge to scratch/itches |
| Impetigo |
| common skin infection, lots of blisters filled with pus, easily popped, leave a red base afterwards |
| folliculitis |
| inflammation of one or more hair follicles can occur anywhere on the skin |
| furuncle |
| a boil, basically deep folliculitis, since it's an inflammation of a hair follicle |
| Empyema |
collection of pus inside the pleural cavity ; |
| Rat-bite fever |
| symptoms depend on the bacteria that caused it, but symptoms caused by streptobacillus monoliformis include fever, chills, joint pain, redness or swelling |
| tularemia |
infection common in wild rodents transmitted to humans by contact with infected animal tissues, ticks, biting flies or mosquitos ; |
| Trench fever |
moderately serious disease transmitted by body lice ; |
| Actinomycosis |
long term bacterial infection commonly affecting the face and neck draining sores on the skin, especially on chest wall from lung infection with actinomyces |
| Necrotizing fasciitis |
flesh-eating disease infection of the deeper layers of the skin/subcutaneous tissues ; ; |
| Pseudomembraneous colitis |
| infection of the large intestine with an overgrowth of Clostridium difficile |
