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27 Cards in this Set
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Abdominocentesis |
surgical puncture of the abdomen by a needle to withdraw fluids |
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Angiography |
the x-ray study of the blood vessels |
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Arthralgia |
pain in a joint |
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Cardiac |
pertaining to the heart |
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Cyanosis |
a physical sign causing bluish discoloration of the skin and mucous membrane |
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Dermal |
of a relating to the skin or dermis |
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Diarrhea |
abnormally frequent evacuation of watery feces |
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Edema |
condition of abnormally large fluid volume in the circulatory system or in tissues between the body's cells |
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Erythrocyte |
name for red blood cells or red blood corpuscles |
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Gastralgia |
pain in the stomach |
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Gastrosis |
an obsolete term for any of the stomach |
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Hepatomegly |
enlargement of the liver |
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Hypertension |
high blood pressure |
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Hypoglossal |
below the tongue |
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Infection |
invasion and multiplication of microorganisms in body tissues, especially that causing injury due to competitive metabolism, toxins, intracellular replication, or antigen-antibody response |
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Inflammation |
a protective tissue response to injury or destruction of tissues, which serves to destroy, dilute, or wall off both the injurious agent and the injured tissue |
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Intermuscular |
between muscles |
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Laceration |
the act of tearing |
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Lesion |
any pathological or traumatic discontinuity of tissue or loss of function of a part |
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Myorrhexis |
rupture of a muscle |
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Pyoderma |
any purulent of the skin |
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Pyrosis |
heartburn |
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Sign |
an indication of the existence of something |
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Symptom |
any subjective evidence of disease or of a patient's condition |
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Syndrome |
a set of symptoms occurring together |
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Tonsillitis |
an infection and swelling of the tonsils, which are oval-shaped masses of lymph gland tissue located on both sides of the back of the throat |
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Triage |
the sorting and prioritizing of nonemergency patients for treatments |
