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Affect

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Expression

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Delirium

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Sudden severe confusion

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Flight of ideas

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Excessive speech at a rapid rate that involves fragmented or unrelated ideas

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Lethargy

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Lack of energy & enthusiasm

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Perseveration

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The tendency to continue or repeat an act or activity after the cessation of the original stimulus

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Broca’s aphasia

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Loss of ability to produce language

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Delusion

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a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary

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Echolalia

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Echoing someone else

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Hallucination

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sensing things while awake that appear to be real, but instead have been created by the mind

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Neologism

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A new word, expression, or usage

ex. schizophrenia

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Wernicke’s aphasia

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Unable to understand language

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Analgesia

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Inability to feel pain

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Chorea

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Abnormal involuntary mvmt

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Cogwheel rigidity

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tension in a muscle which gives way in little jerks when the muscle is passively stretched

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Fasciculation

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Muscle twitch

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Hemiparesis

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Weakness on one side of the body

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Paresthesias

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burning, prickling, itching, or tingling, with no apparent physical cause

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Spasticity

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Stiff or rigid mucles

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Xanthochromia

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Yellow CSF

Usually means subarachnoid hemorrhage

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Somatiform

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Sx in a Pts brain w/ no physical illness

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Ataxia

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uncoordinated mvmt

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Bradykinesia

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Slowness of mvmts & reflexes

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Clonus

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series of involuntary, rhythmic, muscular contractions and relaxations

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Dystonia

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involuntary muscle contractions that cause slow repetitive movements or abnormal postures

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Hemiplegia
paralysis of the arm, leg, and trunk on the same side of the body
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Paraplegia
Paralysis of lower extremities
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Postictal
AMS after a seizure
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Pleocytosis
presence of a greater than normal number of cells in CSF
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Psychosomatic
caused or aggravated by a mental factor such as internal conflict or stress
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SLR
straight leg raising
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GAD
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Annular
Ring-shaped
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Beau's lines
Horizontal lines across the nail
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Eccrine
Sweat gland
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Hyperkeratosis
Thickening of stratum corneum
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Lentigines
Benign pigmented spot on the skin
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Nits
Head lice eggs
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Splinter hemorrhage
Blood under the nails
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Vellus
Short, fine hair
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Apocrine glands
Sweat glands under hair follices
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Cherry angioma
Bright red spot on skin
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Confluent
Flowing together
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Hirsutism
Excess hairiness on women
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Intertriginous
2 areas of skin may rub together
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Lunula
white area of the nail
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Paronychia
skin infection around the nails
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Serpiginous
Having a wavy margin
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Fibrocystic breast changes
Painful, lumpy breasts
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Fibroadenoma
noncancerous breast tumor
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Peau d'orange sign
A swollen pitted skin surface overlying carcinoma of the breast
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Adnexa
ovaries & fallopian tubes
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Bartholin's glands
glands in the vag that secrete fluid
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Cystocele
the tough fibrous wall between a woman's bladder and her vagina (the pubocervical fascia) is torn
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Dyspareunia
Painful intercourse
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Introitus
Vaginal opening
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Perineum
gooch
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Mucopurulent cervicitis
infection of cervix
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Rectocele
bulging of the front wall of the rectum into the back wall of the vagina
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Hypospadius
Opening of urethra is on underside of the penis
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Paraphimosis
the foreskin of an uncircumcised male cannot be pulled back over the head of the penis
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Prepuce
foreskin
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Spermatocele
benign cystic accumulation of sperm that arises from the head of the epididymis
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Varicocele
widening of the spermaticord
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Hydrocele
fluid-filled sack in the scrotum
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Orchitis
inflammation of the testes
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Smegma
secretion of sebaceous gland
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Nikolsky sign
Putting pressure on blister causes further separation of dermis
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Macerated
pale-white & edamatous | pruney fingers

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