Words Flashcards
(142 cards)
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Abrupt
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Sudden
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Abstain
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Stay away from something
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Access
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Enter
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Accountable
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Responsible
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Adhere
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Stick together
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Adverse
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Undesired, harmful
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Affect
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Impact, influence
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Annual
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Occurring every year
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Apply
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To place or to put on
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Audible
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To be heard, or perceptible
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Bilateral
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On both sides
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Cardiac
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Related to the heart
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Cast
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Hard protective device applied to protect broken bones
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Cavity
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Opening or empty area
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Cease
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To end
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Compensatory
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Offsetting or making up for something
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Complication
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Undesired problem
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Comply
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Do as directed
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Concave
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Rounded inward
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Concise
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Brief to the point
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Consistency
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Degree of viscosity
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Constrict
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To shrink or become smaller
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Contingent
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Dependent
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Contour
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Shape or outline
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Contract
To reduce in size
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Contraindication
Why something is not advisable and should not be done.
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Defecate
Expel feces
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Deficit
A deficiency or lack of something
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Depress
Press downward
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Depth
Measure how deep is is something downward from the surface
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Deteriorating
Worsening
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Device
Tool or piece of equipment
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Diagnosis
Identification of injury or disease
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Diameter
Distance across the center
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Dilate
To enlarge or expand
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Dilute
To make a liquid less concentrated
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Discrete
Disconnected, Separated ( like the chicken pox lesions)
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Distended
Enlarged or swollen. "Distended stomach"
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Dysfunction
Abnormal functioning
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Elevate
To lift up
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Endogenous
Produced within the body
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Exacerbate
To make worse or more severe
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Excess
Surplus (more than what is needed)
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Exogenous
Produced outside of the body
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Expand
To increase in size or amount
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Exposure
Contact with someone or something
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External
Located outside of the body
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Fatal
Resulting in death
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Fatigue
Extreme tiredness, exhaustion
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Flaccid
Limp, lacking tone
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Flushed
Reddened appearance
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Gaping
Wide open
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Gastrointestinal
Related to the stomach and intestines
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Gender
Male or Female (the sex of a person)
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Hematologic
Blood related
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Hydration
Maintenance of bloody fluids
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Hygiene
Cleanliness
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Impaired
Lacking some usual quality or level
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Impending
Be about to happen. "My impending departure"
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Incidence
Occurrence
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Infection
Contamination or invasion of body tissue by pathogens
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Inflamed
Reddened, swollen, warm and often tender
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Ingest
To swallow
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Initiate
To start something
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Insidious
Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects.
"Sexually transmitted diseases can be insidious and sometimes without symptoms."
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Intact
Not damaged or impaired in any way; complete. ( in place)
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Internal
Within the body
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Invasive
Involving entry into the body by cutting or by inserting an instrument
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Labile
Changing rapidly or Volatile
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Laceration
A deep cut to the skin or flesh.
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Latent
Present but not active or visible. ( Like cancer)
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Lethargic
Difficult to arouse
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Manifestation
Indication or sign of a condition. (Like the rash in chicken pox is the manifestation of the varicella zoster virus.)
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Musculoskeletal
Relating to muscle
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Neurologic
Related to the nervous system
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Neurovascular
Related to the nervous system and blood vessels
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Nutrient
Ingredient that provides nourishment
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Occluded
Closed or obstructed. Makeup can occlude the pores of the skin.
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Ominous
Important
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Ongoing
Continuous
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Oral
Given trough or affecting the mouth
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Overt
Obvious, evident, easily observed.
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Parameter
A characteristic or constant factor, limit.
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Paroxysmal
Sudden, violent outburst. For example a sudden, abrupt breathing pattern.
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Patent
Open
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Pathology
Processes, causes or effects of a disease
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Posterior
Behind
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Potent
Strong
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Potential
Capable of occurring or likely to occur
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Precaution
Preventive measure
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Precipitous
Rapid, uncontrolled
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Predispose
To make something more likely to occur. To expose to something.
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Preexisting
Already present
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Primary
First
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Priority
Of great importance
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Prognosis
Anticipated or expected outcome
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Rationale
The underlying reason. (Az oka valaminek)
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Recur
To occur again
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Renal
Related to the kidney
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Respiration
Breathing
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Restrict
To limit. For example to limit fluid intake
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Retain
To hold or keep ( for example to hold fluid, swelling)
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Site
Location
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Status (The patient's status is her/his ...)
Condition
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Strict
Stringent, exact, complete, enforcing rules
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Sublingual
Under the tongue
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Supplement
To take in addition
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Suppress
Stop
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Symmetric
Being equal or same in size or shape
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Symptom
Indication if a problem
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Syndrome
Group of symptoms that together reflect a specific disease or disorder.
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Therapeutic
- Producing good effects on your body or mind
| - Of or relating to the treatment of illness
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Transdermal
Crossing trough the skin
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Transmission
Transfer, such as of disease
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Trauma
Injury, wound
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Triage
Determine the priority of treatment for patients according to the severity of a patient's condition.
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Untoward
Negative, not good, adverse
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Urinate
Excrete urine
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Vascular
Related to blood vessels
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Verbal
Spoken
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Virus
Microscopic infectious agent usually causing infectious disease
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Vital
Essential
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Void
Excrete urine from the body.
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Volume
Amount of space occupied by fluid
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Distal
Further away from the point of attachment
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Proximal
Closer to the point of attachment
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Inferior
Below
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Superior
Above
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Anterior
Facing forward
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Posterior
Toward the back
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Saggital ( body cut)
The median plane of the body. ( between legs, breast middle cut)
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Transverse ( body cut)
(Also called the horizontal plane, axial plane, or transaxial plane) An imaginary plane that divides the body into superior and inferior parts.
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Frontal ( body cut)
The coronal or frontal plane divides the body into dorsal and ventral (back and front, or posterior and anterior) portions.
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Docile
Easily thought or handled. Bring compliant.
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Progeny
Offspring
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Indigent people
Poor people
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Febrile
Having fever
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Decomposition
Lysis
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Implement something
Cause it to happen.
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Unseemly
Inappropriate
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Proliferation
Increase
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Ravenous
Hungry
