New Never Seen Before Flashcards
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Excoriation
Wear off of the skin
Inoculate
Inoculation
- to implant (disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal
- the process of introducing an antigenic substances or vaccine
Celibate
Abstaining from marriage and sexual relations
Teratogen
Agent or factor cause the malformation of embryo
Douche
Irrigation vagina
Douche bag: jerk guy
Efface
Crevical stretch at labor
Introspection
Examination of one’s conscious
Recede
Move back from high point or level
Elapse
Pass or go by
Grunt
Make a short, low noise
Proximity
Nearest in space, time, or relationship
Papule
Solid pimple or swelling but not producing pus
Drenched
Soaking wet
exhilaration
a feeling of excitement, happiness, or elation.
defibrillation
the stopping of fibrillation of the heart by administering a controlled electric shock in order to allow restoration of the normal rhythm.
fibrillation
1 : an act or process of forming fibers or fibrils. 2a : a muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination. b : very rapid irregular contractions of the muscle fibers of the heart resulting in a lack of synchronism between heartbeat and pulse.
anomaly
something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected.
appraisal
an act of assessing something or someone
Floppy
loose, hang, flexible, limp
Limp–> limpness and
adj. lacking internal strength or structure; not stiff or firm
parched
very dried out
lineated
delineated
- marked with lines; streaked
- describe something very exactly; decide or show the limits of something; show a line or border.
necrotizing–necrosis
the death of most or all of the cells in an organ or tissue due to disease, injury, or failure of the blood supply.
Transudation
Passage of a fluid or solute through a membrane by a hydrostatic or osmotic pressure gradient