| Vocabulary | Signs & Symptoms | Organs | Bruises and stuff | Miscellaneous |
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What is Guarding?
Contracting the stomach muscles to minimize the pain of abdominal movement.
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What is Grey Turner sign?
Bruises in the right upper quadrant, left upper quadrant, or flank.
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What is the stomach, intestines, ureters, and bladder?
Hollow organs
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What is bruises in the RUQ?
Suggest injury to the liver.
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What is severe abdominal pain, tenderness, and muscular spasm?
The first signs of peritonitis.
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What is Kehr sign?
Left shoulder pain caused by blood in the peritoneal cavity.
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What is Cullen sign?
Bruises around the umbilicus.
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What is the liver, spleen, kidneys, and pancreas?
Solid organs
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What is bruises in the LUQ?
Suggest injury to the spleen.
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What is rigidity?
A common sign of bleeding in the abdomen.
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What is Evisceration?
Displacement of organs outside of the body.
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What is the liver, spleen, or kidney?
Grey Turner sign might suggest injury to these organs.
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What is the liver, gallbladder, duodenum of the intestines, and a small portion of the pancreas?
Organs commonly found in the right upper quadrant.
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What is bruises to the flank?
Suggest injury to the kidney.
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What is hematuria?
Blood in the urine.
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What is Flank?
The posterior region below the margin of the lower rib cage.
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What is bruises around the umbilicus?
This sign is predictive of significant internal abdominal bleeding.
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What is the stomach and spleen?
Organs found in the left upper quadrant.
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What is predictive of significant internal abdominal bleeding?
Bruising around the umbilicus.
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What is tachycardia?
A very common sign of significant abdominal injury.
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What is Blumberg sign?
Commonly referred to as rebound tenderness.
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What is an abdominal aneurysm?
Pain that is described as tearing and going from the abdomen posteriorly.
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What composes the small intestine.
Duodenum, jejunum, and ileum.
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What is decreased b/p and pale, cool, moist skin, or changes in mental status.
Later signs of evidence of shock.
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What is pain following the angle from the lateral hip to the midline of the groin?
The result of damage to the kidneys or ureters.
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