Vocab Flashcards
(212 cards)
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To voluntarily refrain from something
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Abstain
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Sudden and possibly unexpected
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Abrupt
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Tribute or honor
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Accolade
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To be responsible
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Accountable
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Sudden,intense.
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Acute
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To hold fast or stick together
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Adhere
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Undesired, possibly harmful
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Adverse
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Control,protection
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Aegis
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Hurt or angry
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Aggrieved
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A sum total of many things
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Aggregate
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Uncertain, having contradictory feelings
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Ambivalent
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A thing of the past
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Anachronism
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Cure or remedy
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Antidote
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Stimulates the production of antibodies
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Antigen
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Reduce. “The medicine is alleviating my pain.”
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Alleviate
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To place,put on or spread on something
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Apply
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To give consent, to agree
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Assent
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Able to be heard
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Audible
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Single-celled, microscopic organisms
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Bacteria
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Bombardment, onslaught
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Barrage
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Manner,direction or influence
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Bearing
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Not harmful
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Benign
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Presenting on two sides
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Bilateral
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Heartless, cruel or pitiless
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Callous
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Of or relating to the heart
Cardiac
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Medical condition in which the lens of the eye becomes progressively opaque,resulting in blurred vision
Cataract
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An opening or an empty area
Cavity
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Come to an end, to bring to an end
Cease
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Order of events as they occurred;timeline
Chronology
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Offsetting (amount that diminishes or balances the effect of a contrary one) or making up for something. Best described as corrective.
Compensatory
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something that completes or makes up a whole
Complement
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Rounded inward
Concave
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Brief, to the point
Concise
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Degree of viscosity; how thick or thin a fluid is in relation to how it flows. (Texture).
Consistency
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To establish, create, or organize
Constitute
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To draw together or become smaller.
Constrict
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Dependent/reliant
Contingent
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A reason something is not advisable or should not be done.
Contraindication
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To be complex.
Convoluted
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Having or causing convulsions (violent shaking of the body [epilepsy])
Convulsive
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Hidden or concealed.
Convert
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Quick, perfunctory, not thorough.
Cursory
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Expel feces
Defecate
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to throw someone out of a window
defenestrate
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A deficiency or lack of something.
Deficit
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Confused or mistaken
Delusional
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Press downward
Depress
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Downward measurement from a surface.
Depth
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Dried or withered. "Her feces were desiccated"
Desiccated
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Worsening
Deteriorating
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Tool or piece of equipment
Device
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Identification of an injury or disease.
Diagnosis
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To enlarge or expand
Dilate
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To make a liquid less concentrated.
Dilute
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Distinct, separate.
Discrete
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Distant; away from the center (body).
Distal
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Enlarged or expanded from pressure.
Distended
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Easily handled, tame i.e. not dangerous or frightened by people.
Docile
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Impaired or abnormal functioning.
Dysfunction
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Worldly or possible
Earthly
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Ability to share what others are feeling; understanding the feelings of another.
Empathy
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Developing internally of body.
Endogenous
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To destroy completely.
Eradicate
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Balance
Equilibrium
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Being extremely delicate or refined, ghostly, or eerie.
Ethereal
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The origin or cause of a disease or condition.
Etiology
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An inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive. "Im sorry, but your father passed away."
Euphemism
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Confident
Euphoric
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To make worse or more severe
Exacerbate
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Developing externally of body.
Exogenous
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To increase in size or amount
Expand
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To cough up discharge from the lungs through the mouth. (spit).
Expectorate
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To come in contact
Exposure
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Lengthening; unbending a joint.
Extension
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Located outside the body
External
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Resulting in death
Fatal
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Extreme tiredness, exhaustion.
Fatigue
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Feeling feverish
Febrile
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Soft and hanging loosely or limply, especially so as to look or feel unpleasant. (LIMP) (PENIS)
Flaccid
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Bending a joint. "FLEXING YOUR ARM"
Flexion
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Reddened or ruddy appearance
Flushed
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Omit (to leave out or exclude).
Forgo
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Of or relating to the stomach and the intestines.
Gastrointestinal
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Bad breath
Halitosis
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Evade, circumvent, or dodge. (ESCAPE OR AVOID).
Hedge
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To be thoughtless, unmindful, or careless.
Heedless
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Of or relating to blood.
Hematologic
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Maintenance of body fluid balance.
Hydration
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Measures contributing to cleanliness and good health.
Hygiene
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Diminished or lacking some usual quality or level.
Impaired
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Occurring in the near future, about to happen.
Impending
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Impenetrable, not allowing anything to pass through. "skin"
Impervious
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To put into action or to cause it to happen.
Implement
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To suggest without explicitly stating. (Sender of a message implies)
Imply
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Occurrence
Incidence
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Contamination or invasion of body tissue by pathogenic organisms.
Infection
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To conclude or deduce- arrive at a fact. (The receiver of the message infers)
Infer
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Reddened, swollen, warm, and often tender.
Inflamed
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To swallow for digestion
Ingest
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To hold back, constrain, reduce, or slow.
Inhibits
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To begin or to put into practice
Initiate
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So gradual as to not become apparent (clearly visible) for a long time.
Insidious
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In place,unharmed, or whole
Intact
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Located within the body.
Internal
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Inserting or entering into a body part.
Invasive
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Of or relating to movement.
Kinetic
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Changing rapidly and often. (VOLATILE)
Labile
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Cut , tear
Laceration
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Present but not active or visible.
Latent
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On the side
Lateral
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Bequest or relic.
Legacy
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sluggish, languid
Lethargic
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the watery fluid in the lymph vessels collected from the tissue spaces
Lymph
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Sickness, condition, or dissatisfaction.
Malaise
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Expected to grow and worsen.
Malignant
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An indication or sign of a condition.
Manifestation
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The environmental condition or setting.
Milieu
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Of or relating to muscle and skeleton.
Musculoskeletal
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Vague (uncertain, unclear
Nebulous
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Of or relating to the nervous system.
Neurologic
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Of or relating to the nervous system and blood vessels.
Neurovascular
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Substance or ingredient that provides nourishment.
Nutrient
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Ignorant
Obtuse
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Closed or obstructed.
Occluded
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Giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious. (portentous).
Ominous
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Giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious. (portentous).
Ominous
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Ongoing
Continuous
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Given through or affecting the mouth.
Oral
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Of the ear
Otic
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Dungeon, prison, or cell.
Oubliette
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Obvious or visible
Overt
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Aching (sore, throbbing with pain)
Pain
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Worthless
Paltry
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Cure, solution, or remedy.
Panacea
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A characteristic or constant FACTOR, limit. Structure. Guideline.
Parameter
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Sudden, recurrence spasms or seizures
Paroxysmal
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Open
Patent
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Causing or able to cause a disease.
Pathogenic
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Processes, causes, and effects of a disease; abnormality.
Pathology
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Infested with lice
Pediculosis
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Located behind; in the back.
Posterior
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Producing a strong effect
Potent
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Capable of occurring or likely to occur.
Potential
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Preventive measure.
Precaution
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Rapid, uncontrolled.
Precipitous
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To make more susceptible or more likely to occur. make someone liable or inclined to a specified attitude, action, or condition.
"lack of exercise may predispose an individual to high blood pressure".
Predispose
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Already existing
Preexisting
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First or most significant.
Primary
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Of great importance.
Priority
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Offspring
Progeny
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The anticipated or expected course or outcome; the forecast (EX: The physician explained that, with treatment, the patient's prognosis was for a long and healthy life.)
Prognosis
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A rapid increase in number.
Proliferation
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To forbid
Proscribe
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quarrelsome, fond of fighting
Pugnacious
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4 times a day
Q.I.D
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Strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of a disease or to exclude, detain, or isolate. (CONFINEMENT: keep or restrict someone from something)
Quarantine
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Wild, loud, or disorderly.
Raucous
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Unrestrained.
Rampant
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Smelling unpleasant.
Rancid
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The underlying reason| LOGIC. (EX: To make sure that the patient will follow the diet instructions, the medical assistant explains the rationale for the low-salt diet.)
Rationale
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Hungry.
Ravenous
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To occur again.
Recur
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To entertain, amuse, or delight
Regale
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A systematic plan for therapy.
Regimen
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Thing of the past
Relic
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Improvement or absence of signs of disease.
Remission
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Of or relating to the kidneys.
Renal
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Inhalation or exhalation of air.
Respiration
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To limit
Restrict
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To hold or keep
Retain
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Not flexible
Rigid
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Calm,tranquil
Serene
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An Unmarried woman
Spinster
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A mixture of saliva and mucus coughed up from the respiratory tract, typically as a result of infection or other disease.
Sputum
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Condition
Status
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Under the tongue
Sublingual
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Having substance or sustaining. Strengthen or support physically or mentally.
Substantial
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To take in addition to or to complete.
Supplement
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To stop or subdue. (counter).
Suppress
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A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence.
Supposition
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Likely or liable to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing.
Susceptible
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occurring in corresponding parts at the same time
Symmetric (Symmetrical)
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An indication of a problem
Symptom
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Group of symptoms that, when occurring together, reflect a specific disease or disorder.
Syndrome
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A system to return patients to wellness.
Tertiary Health Care
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Of or relating to the treatment of a disease or a disorder.
Therapeutic
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Causing harm or poisonous.
Toxic
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Crossing through the skin.
Transdermal
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Transfer, such as of a disease, from one person to another.
Transmission
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Injury, wound.
Trauma
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Process used to determine the priority of treatment for patients according to the severity of a patient's condition and the likelihood of benefit from the treatment.
Triage
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Being or seeming to be everywhere at once.
Ubiquitous
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Adverse, negative.
Untoward
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Excrete or expel urine.
Urinate
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Of or relating to blood vessels.
Vascular
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Spoken, using words.
Verbal
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Extremely harmful and severe.
Virulent
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Microscopic infectious agent capable of replicating only in living cells, usually causing infectious disease.
Virus
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Essential
Vital
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To urinate.
Void
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Labile, change rapidly.
Volatile
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Amount of space occupied by a fluid.
Volume
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become less in amount or intensity
Abate
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to give up or leave
Abdicate
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once a day
q.d
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At bedtime
ATBE
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every 8 hours
q8h
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more votes than anyone else, but less than half
Plurality
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Baby is delivered feet or buttocks first
Breech birth
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Plastic prongs placed in nose to deliver oxygen
Cannula
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the simultaneous presence of two chronic diseases or conditions in a patient
Co-morbidity
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harmful, injurious
deleterious
