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A word characterizing the degree of cataclysmic pressure exerted on the head of a baby as it is being delivered vaginally.
Tenses: squoze, squozed, had squozen
As the baby comes out you might see some early decelerations on the fetal heart monitor strip. This tells you that the baby's head is getting squozed.
A medical condition describing the copious diuresis experienced by postpartum women about 6 hours after delivery.
As a nurse, you should expect the new mommy to pee like a Russian racehorse within the first 24 hours after delivery.
Lordosis is a basketball term for when the player shoots the ball from under the basket, contorting their spine in spectacular fashion so as to score. The term originally described the change in spinal shape typically found in pregnant women, but since the word has the word "lord" in it, using the term implies that the player who scored the basket possessed - if only for a moment - divine finesse.
Did you see how tony made that hook shot!? LORDOSIS! Praise be to Lord Tony!
When you stand up from sitting or lying down and then get high for 3 seconds. This happens because your body couldn't adjust your blood pressure fast enough from a lying to a standing position. This is similar to how you feel like crap when you volunteered to quickly for a job that you were disastrously unqualified for.
Hey gramps, dont get up too fast or Orthostatic Hypotension will sit yo ass back down.
Nursing slang for "get off your ass"
Nursing Goal: Patient will ambulate to the restroom and back with minimal assistance.
a word nursing students use to replace inutterable and otherwise unprofessional obscenities.
Shut the fundus up. Life's a fundus. My patient just took a massive fundus.
Medical term describing the sound of a metered-dose inhaler when in use.
To use the inhaler, start breathing, press the trigger, and poosh. keep inhaling slowly after the poosh and then hold your breath for about 10 seconds for maximum effectiveness.