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42 Cards in this Set
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Something that absorbs
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Absorbent
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Easy to approach, reach, enter, speak with or use
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Accessible
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The automatic adjustment by which the eye adapts itself to distinct vision at different distances
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Accommodation
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Seperation of a whole into its component parts
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Analysis
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To study or determine the nature and relationship
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Analyze
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Something that is advantageous
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Beneficial
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To make void or to revoke
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Canceled
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Aware of one's own exsistance, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc
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Conscious
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Characterized by the systematic comparision of phenomena and especially likenesses and dissimilarities
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Comparative
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Recovering from sickness or debility
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Convalescent
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A lack or shortage of something essential to health
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Deficiency
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Excessive and frequent evacuation of watery feces
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Diarrhea
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Fit or proper to be chosen
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Eligible
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The presence of excessive gas in the digestive tract
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Flatulence
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Heavy or uncontrollable bleeding
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Hemorrhage
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A science of the establishment and maintenance of health
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Hygiene
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An unintentional result due to lack of attention
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Inadvertently
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Capable of causing infection
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Infectious
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Coming and going at intervals
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Intermittent
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To cause an organ or tissue to be inflamed or made raw
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Irritated
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To flush (a body part) with a stream of liquid
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Irrigated
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The ability to judge, make a decision, or form an opinion objectively
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Judgment
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Needed to acheive a certain desired effect or result
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Necessary
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An appropriate or favorable time or occasion
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Opportunity
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Something that happens
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Occurrence
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Relieving or soothing the symptoms of a disease or disorder without effecting the cure
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Palliative
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Steady persistence in a course of action
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Perseverance
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To go or be before someone or something in time, place, or rank
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Precede
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A written order, especially by a physician, for the preparation and administration of a medicine or other treatment
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Prescription
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A series of steps followed in a regular definite order
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Procedure
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Return of symptoms of a disease after a remission
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Reocurrence
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The process of directing or redirecting a medical case or a patient to an appropriate specialist or agency for defenitive treatment
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Referral
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Conditions characterized by inflammation or pain in muscles, joints, or fibrous tissue
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Rheumatism
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Harshness, sterness, or rigor
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Severity
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Marked by a favorable outcome
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Successful
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Enough to meet a need or purpose
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Sufficient
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Having little resistence to a specific infectious disease
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Susceptible
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A stitch to close a wound
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Suture
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A rapid or fast heartbeat
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Tachycardia
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A method or body of methods for accompishing a desired end
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Technique
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Pertaining to the navel or belly button
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Umbilicus
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Sword shaped bone in the thoracic cavity
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Xiphoid
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