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62 Cards in this Set
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BS |
Breath sounds |
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R |
Respirators |
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SOB |
Shortness of breath |
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Reg |
Regular |
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Bpm |
Beats per minute |
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IDDM |
Insulin dependent diabetes, type 1 diabetes |
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Inj |
Injection |
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MI |
Myocardial injection |
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O2 |
Oxygen |
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AIDS |
Acquired immunodifiency syndrome |
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FBS |
Fasting blood sugar |
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CSF |
Cerebrospinal fluid |
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Asthma |
Disease of the air passage |
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Mild airway block |
Can talk or make sounds, cough loudly |
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Choking sign |
Holding the neck with one or both hands |
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Severe allergic reaction |
Trouble breathing, swelling of tongue, shock |
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Sudden cardiac arrest |
Results from an abnormal heart rhythm that causes the heart to quiver so that it can no longer pump blood |
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Fainting |
Short period of time when a person stops responding and then seems fine |
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Choking |
When food or another object gets stuck in the airway in the throat |
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Severe airway block |
Cannot breathe or talk or make sounds has a cough with no sounds makes choking sign |
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Mild allergic reaction |
Stuffy nose sneezing itching around the eyes or skin rash |
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Epinephrine |
A drug that can stop a severe allergic reaction |
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Heart attack |
Blood flow to part of the heart muscle is blocked by a clot |
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Diabetes |
A disease that affect the levels of sugar in the blood |
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Stroke |
When blood stops flowing to a part of the brain due to block vessel |
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Nas/o |
Nose |
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Bronchi/o |
Bronchial tube |
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Hemo-, hemat/o |
Blood |
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Dys- |
Difficult, bad, painful |
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-ia |
Abnormal condition |
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A- |
Not, no, without |
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Pharyng/o |
Throat |
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Trache/o |
Trachea, windpipe |
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-pnea, pnea |
Breathing |
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-al, -ary, -ic, -ac |
Pertaining to |
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Thorac/o |
Chest |
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-itis |
Inflammation of |
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Cardi/o card/o |
Heart |
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Circulat/o |
Circulate |
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-ion |
Condition |
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Arter/o |
Artery |
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Coagul/o coagulat/o |
Clotting |
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Gluc/o |
Glucose/sugar |
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-um |
Noun ending |
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Pulmon/o |
Lung |
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Cerebr/o |
Cerebrum, brain |
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Crani/o |
Skull |
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Nuer/l, neur/o |
Nerve |
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Spin/o |
Spine |
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Nasopharynx |
Nose throat |
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Hemothorax |
Blood in chest |
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Dyspnea |
Difficult/painful breathing |
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Artery |
Blood vessel that brings blood away from the heart |
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Bronchitis |
Inflammation of the bronchioles |
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Apnea |
Inability to breath |
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Systemic circulation |
General circulation to the systems. Oxygentated blood from the left ventricle to tissues of the body returning de-oxygenated blood to right atrium |
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Cranium |
Skull |
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Pulmonary |
Pertaining to the lungs/respiratory system |
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Cerebrospinal fluid |
Fluid contained in the brains ventricles, intracranial spaces and ventral canal of the spinal cord |
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Coagulation |
Condition of clotting |
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Epileps |
Transient disturbances of the brain function |
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Brain stem |
Maintains the heartbeat, respiration and BP |