Emergency Care Vocab

Health Occ

Laceration: A jagged, irregular tear of the skin.

Skin avulsion: tissue separates from the body.

Incision: A cut from a knife, glass, or sharp rock.

Puncture:

• A wound that is caused by a object piercing the skin.

Abrasion: wound to outer layers of skin that causes little bleeding.

Poison:

• Substance, solid liquid or gas, that causes illness, injury, or death when introduced to the body.

First Aid:

• The immediate temporary care to a person that has become sick or has been injured.

Shock:

• Failure of the system to keep adequate blood circulating to the vital organs of the body.

Rabies: A disease of the nervous system that could cause madness and

death.

• Dogs, squirrels, and rats are common carriers of this disease.

Sprain

• Stretching or tearing of ligaments that hold bone together.

Burns

• First degree: Involves the top layer of skin (sunburn).

• Second degree: Involves the top layer, the skin will blister and appear blotchy.

• Third degree: destroys all layers of skin, nerves, muscle, fat and bones. Burn looks brown or black.

Fainting

• A temporary loss of consciousness, caused by reduced blood supply to the brain.

Frostbite

• Ice crystals form in the spaces between the cells– This causes skin to

lose color and to become insensitive.

Gangrene

• Death of tissue, that comes from frostbite that is untreated.

Hurricane

• A powerful rain storm

Tornado

• A powerful twisting wind storm.

Blizzard

• Snow storm