General Patient Care- Physical Exam & VS part 2

______________ measure the body's most basic functions.

• vital signs

• not this one

a balance between heat production and heat loss

• temperature

• febrile

The center of temperature control is located in a part at the base of the brain called ____________:

• medulla oblongata

• hypothalmus

an increase of body temperature above normal range of 98.6

• temperature

• fever

a fever above 104 degrees F

• pyrexia

• hyperpyrexia

fever above 105 degrees

• pyrexia

• hyperpyrexia

body temperature lower than 97 degrees F

• hyperthermia

• hypothermia

having normal body temperature

• afebrile

• febrile

having fever

• having normal body temperature

• having fever

fluctuating fever that returns to or below baseline, then rises again

• intermittent fever

• remittent fever