Word List #1

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Perspiration

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Diaphoresis

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Diminished appetite or aversion to food

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Anorexia

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Extremity of a conical or pyramidal structure

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Apex

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Capable of living

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Viable

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Airlessness of the lungs

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Atelectasis

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Short-lived cardiac sound having little duration as compared to a murmur

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Transient

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Following a meal

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Postprandial

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Circumscribed dilation of an artery or blood containing tumor

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Aneurysm

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An individual hemorrhoidal tumor

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Pile

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Narrowing of any canal, especially of one of the cardiac valves

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Stenosis

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Relating to or caused by a stroke or seizure

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Ictal

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Deviation from the norm, contrary to a general rule

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Anomaly

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Process of adhering or uniting of two surfaces or parts

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Adhesion

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Stickiness, adhesiveness. In general, the resistance to flow

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Viscosity

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Backward flow, as of blood through an incompetent valve of the heart

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Regurgitation

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

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Benign

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Providing nourishment

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Alimentation

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To change direction; divert

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Shunt

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Earwax

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Cerumen

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Mental or physical suffering or anguish

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Distress

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Fatty; relating to fat

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Adipose

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Depraved or perverted appetite.

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Pica

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Relating to bile

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Bilious

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Baldness; loss of hair

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Alopecia

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To exude or pass out of a vessel into the tissues

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Extravasate

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Relaxed, flabby, w/o tone

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Flaccid

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Back of the neck

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Nuchal

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Sharp spasm or convulsion

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Paroxysm

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High-pitched, noisy respiration like the blowing of the wind

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Stridor

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Hives. An eruption of itching wheals

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Urticaria

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Shifting of a disease, or its manifestations from one part to another

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Metastasis

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Classical term for cerebral hemorrhage. Also called stroke, CVA

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Apoplexy

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The aggregate of signs and symptoms associated with any morbid process

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Syndrome

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Pierced with one or more holes

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Perforate

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Artificial passage of fluid through blood vessels

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Perfusion

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Presence of various pus forming or other pathogenic organisms in the blood or tissues

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Sepsis

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Fattiness

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Obesity

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All; entire

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Pan

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Rhythmical oscillation of the eyeballs

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Nystagmus

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Fabricated substitute for a missing part of the body

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Prosthesis

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Simple inflammation of a mucus membrane

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Catarrh

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Symptom or circumstance that renders the use of a remedy inadvisable

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Contraindication

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On or near the surface

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Superficial

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

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Radiation

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

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Chief Complaint

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Noises in the ears

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Tinnitus

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Sudden physical or mental disturbance

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Shock

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

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Parenteral

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Protrusion of the eyeballs

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Exophthalmos

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Urination

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Micturition

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Fullness

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Turgor

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Concentration of salts formed in any part of the body

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Calculus

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Any disease process affecting a lymph node or nodes

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Lymphadenopathy

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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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Differential Diagnosis

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Birthmark

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Nevus

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Excretion of large amounts of urine

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Diuresis

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Relating to the body

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Somatic

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A small rhonchus. An adventitious sound, of varied character, heard on auscultation of the chest of diseased lungs or bronchi

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Rales

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Indicating a normal arterial blood pressure

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Normotensive

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

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Scotoma

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Inability to prevent the discharge of urine or feces

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Incontinence

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Involuntary contractions or twitching, of groups of muscle fibers

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Fasciculation

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Broad range of activity of an antibiotic

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Broad Spectrum

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Excess of urea and other nitrogenous wastes in the blood

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Uremia

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

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Clubbing

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Shortness of breath appearing suddenly at night

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Nocturnal Dyspnea

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Branch of science dealing with serum

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Serology

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Severe constricting pain in the chest

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Angina Pectoris

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Abnormal sensation resembling that made by insects creeping in or on the skin

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Formication

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Increased thirst

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Polydipsia

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Lack of nutrition, wasting

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Cachexia

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Pinpoint hemorrhages

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Petechiae

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Pregnant woman

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Gravida

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Drooping eyelids

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Ptosis

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Failure of lower esophagus to relax

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Achalasia

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Telescoping bowel

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Intussusception

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Scanty Urine

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Oliguria

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Excessive bleeding during menses

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Menorrhagia

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Opening of urethra underneath penis

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Hypospadias

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Loss of ability to produce/comprehend language

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Aphasia

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Pain after walking, but stops at rest

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Claudication

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Windpipe

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Trachea

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Flap-like cartilage that covers larynx

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Epiglottis

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Spitting blood

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Hemoptysis

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Most common cancer in aids patients

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Karposi sarcoma

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Humpback (spine degradation)

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Kyphosis

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Lumbar spine degradation - causes leaning back appearance

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Lordosis

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Dry skin

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Xeroderma

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Nail coming off finger

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Oncholysis

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Inflammation of eyelids

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Blepharitis