Question

Please write the meaning (definition in your own words) to the following medical terms and also use each one in a sentence as it applies to the health care industry.

SOAP:

Acute:

Chronic:

Symptom:

Palpation:

Marked:

Percussion:

Impression:

Discharge:

Supportive Care:

Answer 1

Definitions.....

***** SOAP:

SOAP stands for subjective, objective, assessment and plan

****** Acute:

suggests severe intensification of an event, condition, etc. that is sharply approaching a climax .

***** chronic:

suggests long duration or frequent recurrence and is used especially of diseases or habits that resist all efforts to eradicate

***** Symptoms:

a change in your body that is a sign of illness.

***** Palpation:

to examine (an area of the body) by the sense of touch and pressure.

***** Marked:

To an extent which is clearly noticeable;

***** Percussion:

the striking of one body against another with some sharpness;

****** Impression:

the effect that a person or thing produces on somebody else

****** Discharge:

to allow somebody officially to leave; to send somebody away

****** Supportive care:

Treatment given to prevent, control, or relieve complications and side effects and to improve the patient's comfort and quality of life.