Med Terms Word List 1 And 2

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Diaphoresis

Back 1

Perspiration.

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Anorexia

Back 2

Diminished appetite or aversion to food.

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Apex

Back 3

The extremity of a conical or pyramidal structure.

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Occult

Back 4

Hidden, concealed.

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Fetid

Back 5

Foul smelling.

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Viable

Back 6

Capable of living. Denoting a fetus sufficiently developed to live outside the uterus.

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Atelectasis

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Airlessness of the lungs due to failure of expansion or reabsorption of air from the alveoli.

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Transient

Back 8

A short-lived cardiac sound having little duration as compared to a murmur. First, second, third and fourth sounds, clicks and opening snaps.

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Postprandial

Back 9

Following a meal.

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Icterus

Back 10

Jaundice

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Aneurysm

Back 11

Circumscribed dilation of an artery or blood containing tumor, connecting
directly with the lumen of an artery.

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Pile

Back 12

An individual hemorrhoidal tumor.

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Ictal

Back 13

Relating to or caused by a stroke or seizure.

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Anomaly

Back 14

Deviation from the normal, contrary to a general rule.

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Malingerer

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One who feigns illness.

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Adhesion

Back 16

The process of adhering or uniting of two surfaces or parts, especially the union of the opposing surfaces of a wound.

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Viscosity

Back 17

Stickiness, adhesiveness. In general, the resistance to flow or alteration of shape by any substance as a result of molecular cohesion.

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Regurgitation

Back 18

A backward flow, as of blood through an incompetent valve of the heart.

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Benign

Back 19

The mild character of an illness or the nonmalignant character of a neoplasm.

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Alimentation

Back 20

Providing nourishment.

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Shunt

Back 21

To change direction; divert.

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Cerumen

Back 22

Earwax.

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Distress

Back 23

Mental or physical suffering or anguish.

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Adipose

Back 24

Fatty; relating to fat.

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Pica

Back 25

A depraved or perverted appetite. A hunger for substances not fit for food.

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Bilious

Back 26

Relating to bile.

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Alopecia

Back 27

Baldness; loss of hair.

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Extravasate

Back 28

To exude or pass out of a vessel into the tissues. Blood, lymph, urine.

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Flaccid

Back 29

Relaxed, flabby, without tone.

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Nuchal

Back 30

The nape of the neck, back of the neck.

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Paroxysm

Back 31

A sharp spasm or convulsion.

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Stridor

Back 32

A high-pitched, noisy respiration like the blowing of the wind. A symptom of
respiratory obstruction; especially the trachea, larynx.

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Urticaria

Back 33

Hives. An eruption of itching wheals. Usually of systemic origin. May be due to hypersensitivity.

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Metastasis

Back 34

The shifting of a disease, or its local manifestations, from one part of the body to another.

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Apoplexy

Back 35

A classical term for cerebral hemorrhage, thrombus, embolism or vasospasm. Also called stroke, CVA.

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Syndrome

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The aggregate of signs and symptoms associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease.

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Perforate

Back 37

Pierced with one or more holes.

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Perfusion

Back 38

Artificial passage of fluid through blood vessels.

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Sepsis

Back 39

The presence of various pus forming or other pathogenic organisms, or their
toxins in the blood or tissues.

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Obesity

Back 40

Fattiness, corpulence; an abnormal increase of fat in the subcutaneous connective tissues.

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Nystagmus

Back 41

Rhythmical oscillation of the eyeballs, horizontal, vertical or rotary.

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Prosthesis

Back 42

A fabricated substitute for a missing part of the body i.e. limb, tooth, eye,
heart valve etc.

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Catarrh

Back 43

Simple inflammation of a mucus membrane, properly, chronic rhinitis.

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Insufficiency

Back 44

Lack of completeness of function or of power.

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Contraindication

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Any special symptom or circumstance that renders the use of a remedy or the carrying out of a procedure inadvisable.

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Superficial

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On, near, or relating to the surface.

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Radiation

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(in reference to pain): The act or condition of diverging in all directions from a center (of pain).

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Chief Complaint

Back 48

A malady, disease or symptom; or the description of it.

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Tinnitus

Back 49

Noises in the ears.

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Pan

Back 50

All; entire.

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Shock

Back 51

A sudden physical or mental disturbance.

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Parenteral

Back 52

By some other means than through the elementary canal. Referring to the
introduction of nutritive matter into veins and subcutaneous tissues.

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Exophthalmos

Back 53

Protrusion of the eyeballs.

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Crepitation:

Back 54

1. Crackling; the quality or sound of a rale, which resembles noise, heard on rubbing hair between fingers.
2. The sensation felt on placing the hand over the seat of a fracture when the broken ends of the bones are moved, or over tissue in which gas gangrene is present.
3. Noise or vibration produced by rubbing bone or irregular cartilage surfaces together as by movement of patella

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Micturition

Back 55

Urination. The desire to urinate or frequency of urination.

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Turgor

Back 56

Fullness.

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Calculus

Back 57

A concentration formed in any part of the body, usually composed of salts of organic and inorganic acids or other material.

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Lymphadenopathy

Back 58

Any disease process affecting a lymph node or nodes.

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Differential Diagnosis

Back 59

The determination of which of two or more diseases with similar symptoms, is the one from which the patient is suffering.

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Nevus

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Birthmark. A circumscribed malformation of skin especially if colored by hyperpigmentation or increased vascularity.

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Somatic

Back 61

Relating to the soma or trunk. Relating to the body. Physical.

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Adventitious

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Coming from without, entrinsic. Accidental.

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Rales

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A small rhonchus. An adventitious sound, of varied character, heard on
auscultation of the chest in many cases of disease of lungs or bronchi.

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Normotensive

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Indicating a normal arterial blood pressure.

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Scotoma

Back 65

An isolated area of varying size and shape, within the visual field, in which
vision is absent or depressed.

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Incontinence

Back 66

Inability to prevent the discharge of any of the excretions; especially urine or feces.

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Fasciculation

Back 67

Involuntary contractions or twitching, of groups of muscle fibers, a courser form of muscular contraction than fibrillations.

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Broad Spectrum

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A term indicating a broad range of activity of an antibiotic against a wide variety of microorganisms.

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Uremia

Back 69

Azotemia; An excess or urea and other nitrogenous wastes in the blood.

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Diuresis

Back 70

Excretion of urine. Commonly denotes production of unusually large amounts of urine.

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Clubbing

Back 71

Broadening and thickening of ends of fingers; seen in chronic pulmonary disease.

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Nocturnal Dyspnea

Back 72

Shortness of breath; subjective difficulty breathing, appearing suddenly at night, waking the patient preventing an hour or two of sleep.

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Serology

Back 73

The branch of science dealing with serum; especially with specific immune or lytic serums.

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Angina pectoris

Back 74

Severe constricting pain in the chest

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Formication

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An abnormal sensation resembling that made by insects creeping in or on the skin.

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Edema

Back 76

An accumulation of an excessive amount of fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities.

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Anasarca

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A generalized infiltration of edema fluid into subcutaneous connective tissue.

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Ascites

Back 78

An accumulation of serous fluid in the peritoneal cavity.

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Idiopathic

Back 79

Denoting a disease of unknown cause.

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Etiology

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Causation; the doctrine of causes; specifically the cause of disease.

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latrogenic

Back 81

Resulting from, or in the course of, activities of a doctor or surgeon.

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Pathognomonic

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Characteristic or indicative of a disease; denoting one or two specific symptoms.

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Pathogenesis

Back 83

The mode of origin or development of any disease or morbid process.

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Cachexia

Back 84

A general lack of nutrition and wasting occurring in the course of a chronic disease or emotional disturbance.

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Asthenia

Back 85

Weakness, debility.

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Emaciation

Back 86

Extreme loss of flesh; growing lean.

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Murmur

Back 87

Soft sound, like that made by a somewhat forcible expiration such as the mouth opening; heard on auscultation of the heart, lungs or blood vessels.

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Bruit

Back 88

An ausculatory sound, especially an abnormal one.

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Thrill

Back 89

The vibration accompanying a cardiac murmur which can be felt on palpation.

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Suppuration

Back 90

The formation of pus.

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Febrile

Back 91

Feverish. Pyretic. Relating to fever.

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Pyrexia

Back 92

Fever

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Syncope

Back 93

Fainting; a swoon. A sudden fall in blood pressure or of the cardiac systole resulting in cerebral anemia and more or less complete loss of consciousness.

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Vertigo

Back 94

A sensation of irregular or whirling motion either of oneself or of external objects.

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Sign

Back 95

Any abnormality indicative of a disease discoverable by the physician at his examination of the patient. Objective symptom of a disease.

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Symptom

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Any morbid phenomenon or departure from the normal in
function, appearance or sensation, experienced by the patient and indicative of a disease. Subjective sign of a disease.

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Purulent

Back 97

Suppurative; suppurating. Containing or forming pus.

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Sequela

Back 98

A morbid condition following as a consequence of a disease.

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Prodromal

Back 99

An early or premonitory symptom of a disease.

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Acute

Back 100

A short and sharp course. Not chronic. Said of a disease.

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Exudate

Back 101

Passage of fluid, often coagulable, or blood cells, into tissues or cavities, especially as a result of increased vascular permeability.

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Relapse

Back 102

The return of a disease after it had once spent its course.

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Remission

Back 103

Abatement or lessening in severity of the symptoms of a disease.

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Petechiae

Back 104

Minute hemorrhagic spots, of pinpoint to pinhead size, in the skin.

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Ecchymosis

Back 105

A purplish patch caused by extravasation of blood into the skin.

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Chronic

Back 106

Of long duration. Denoting a disease of slow progress and long
continuance.

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Insidious

Back 107

Denoting a disease that progresses with few or no symptoms to indicate its gravity.

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Prostate

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Gland

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Transudate

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Term given to solvents and solutes that pass through membranes, such as the capillary wall, as a result of difference in hydrostatic pressure; the solvent filters through, and carries with it any solutes to which the membrane is permeable.

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Percussion

Back 110

A diagnostic procedure designed to determine the density of a part by means of tapping the surface with a finger or presser.

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Auscultation

Back 111

Listening to the sounds made by the thoracic or abdominal viscera, by the contracting muscles, by the blood in the vessels, by the fetus in utero, or to the sounds in any other internal parts of the body.

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Inspection

Back 112

To examine by looking.

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Palpitate

Back 113

Forcible pulsation of the heart perceptible to the patient, usually with an increase in frequency, with or without irregularity in rhythm.

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Palpate

Back 114

To examine by feeling and pressing with the palms of the hands and fingers.

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Exogenous

Back 115

Originating or produced outside.

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Palliative

Back 116

Mitigating - reducing the severity of denoting a method of treatment of a disease or its symptoms.

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Prophylaxis

Back 117

The prevention of disease. To guard before, take precaution.

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Endogenous

Back 118

Originating or produced within the organism or one of its parts.

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Melena

Back 119

The passage of dark colored or tarry stools, due to the presence of blood altered by intestinal juices.

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Resonance

Back 120

The sound obtained on percussing a part that can vibrate freely.

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Paralysis

Back 121

Loss of power of a voluntary muscle through injury or disease of its nerve supply. Loss of any function.

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Anesthesia

Back 122

Loss of power of a voluntary muscle through injury or disease of its nerve supply. Loss of any function.

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Paresthesia

Back 123

An abnormal, spontaneous sensation, such as burning, prickling, tingling or tickling.

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Hematuria

Back 124

Any condition in which the urine contains blood or red blood cells.

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Epistaxis

Back 125

Nosebleed. Nasal hemorrhage.

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Hematochezia

Back 126

The passage of bloody stools.

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Hematemesis

Back 127

Vomiting of blood.

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Hemoptysis

Back 128

Pulmonary hemorrhage; the spitting of blood derived from the lungs or bronchial tubes.

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Dullness

Back 129

The character of the sound obtained by percussing over a solid
part, which is incapable of vibrating.

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Functional Disease

Back 130

Nonorganic; ailment is one that is not caused by a structural defect.

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Localized

Back 131

Restricted or limited to a definite part.

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Systemic

Back 132

Relating to a system in any sense. Arranged according to a system.

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Eructation

Back 133

Belching. The raising of gas or a small amount of acid fluid from
the stomach.

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Flatus

Back 134

Expired air. Gas in the stomach or small intestine. Eructation.

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Tympany

Back 135

Low pitched, resonant drum like sound; note obtained by percussing the surface of a large air containing space.

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Rigidity

Back 136

Rigor.

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Rebound Tenderness

Back 137

Felt when pressure, particularly abdominal pressure, is suddenly released.

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Flatulence

Back 138

The presence of an excessive amount of gas in the stomach and/or small intestines.

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Organic Disease

Back 139

Relating to an organ.

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Stricture

Back 140

A circumscribed narrowing or stenosis of a tubular structure.

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Ischemia

Back 141

Hypoemia. Local anemia due to mechanical obstruction to the blood supply.

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Prostrate

Back 142

A marked loss of strength, as in exhaustion.

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Claudication

Back 143

Charcots' syndrome: a condition caused by ischemia of the leg muscles due to sclerosis with narrowing of the arteries.
Attacks are characterized by lameness and pain usually brought on by walking.

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Somnolent

Back 144

Sleepy, drowsy, having an inclination to sleep. In a condition of
incomplete sleep. Semicomatose.

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Inanition

Back 145

Exhaustion from lack of food or defect in assimilation.

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Lethargy

Back 146

A state of deep or prolonged unconsciousness resembling profound slumbers from which the person can be aroused, but into which he immediately relapses.

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Stupor

Back 147

Lethargy; unconsciousness.

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Obtund

Back 148

To dull or blunt. Especially to blunt sensation or deaden pain.

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Stenosis

Back 149

A narrowing of any canal; a stricture; especially the narrowing of
one of the cardiac valves.

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Gavage

Back 150

Feeding by the belly tube.

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Constriction

Back 151

Binding or contracting of a part, stricture, stenosis.

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Dilation

Back 152

Enlargement of a cavity, canal, blood vessel, or opening occurring physiologically or made artificially.

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Gravida

Back 153

A pregnant woman.

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Parity

Back 154

The state of having given birth of an infant or infants, alive or dead.

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lpsilateral

Back 155

On the same side; denoting especially motor or sensory disorders occurring on the same side as the causative brain lesion.

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Atresia

Back 156

Absence of a normal opening or normally patent lumen.

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Occlusion

Back 157

The act of closing or the state of being closed.

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Contralateral

Back 158

Relating to the opposite side, as when pain is felt or paralysis occurs on the side opposite to that of the lesion.

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Lavage

Back 159

The washing out of a hollow organ i.e. stomach or lower bowel, by copious injections and rejections of water.

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Compliance

Back 160

The ease (measure of) with which a structure or substance may be deformed. Usually a measure of the ease with which a hollow viscus may be distended.

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Tussive

Back 161

Relating to a cough.

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Expectorate

Back 162

To spit, to eject saliva, mucus or other fluid from the mouth.

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Proximal

Back 163

Nearest the flank or point of origin; said of part of a limb, artery, and nerve etc., so situated.

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Distal

Back 164

Situated away from the center of the body, or from the point of origin. Specifically applied to the extremity or distant part of a limb or organ.

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Fissure

Back 165

A deep furrow, cleft or split.

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Dehiscence

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A bursting open, splitting or gaping by the divergence of parts.

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Evisceration

Back 167

To disembowel. Protrusion of the abdominal viscera through a
defect created by wound dehiscence.

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Fistula

Back 168

A pathologic sinus or abnormal passage leading from an abscess cavity or a hollow organ, to the surface or from one organ to another.

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Efficacy

Back 169

The power to produce an effect.

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Contraction

Back 170

A shortening or increase in tension denoting the normal function of muscular tissue. A shrinkage or reduction in size.

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Contracture

Back 171

A permanent muscular contraction due to tonic spasm or to loss of muscular equilibrium, the antagonists being paralyzed.

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Diabetes mellitus

Back 172

A metabolic disease in which carbohydrate utilization is reduced and that of lipid and protein enhanced. It is caused by a deficiency of insulin and is characterized in more severe form by glycosuria, water and electrolyte loss, ketoacidosis and coma. Chronic complications include neuropathy, retinopathy, nephropathy, and generalized degenerative changes in large and small blood vessels.

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Diabetes insipidus

Back 173

The chronic excretion of very large amounts of pale urine of low specific gravity, accompanied by extreme thirst, It ordinarily results from inadequate output of pituitary ADH, though it may be mimicked as a result of excessive fluid intake in emotionally disturbed individuals