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Ch. 4 Flashcards

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Against taking a medication

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Contraindiction

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Congenital anomaly

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Irregularly presented at birth

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Dialysis

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Completely separate waste material from blood

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Dyspnea

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Difficulty or painful breathing

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Dysplasia

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Abnormal growth or development

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Ectopic pregnancy

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Embryo develops outside the uterus

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Endotracheal

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Pertaining to inside the trachea

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Epigastric

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Pertaining to above the stomach

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Euthyroid

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Normal thyroid

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Euphoria

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Feeling good

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Hemiglossectomy

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Removal of half the tongue

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Hemicolectomy

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Removal of half the colon

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Hypodermic

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Pertaining below the skin

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Insomniac

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Not sleeping

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Infracostal

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Pertaining to beneath the ribs

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Intercostal

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Pertaining to between the ribs

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Macrocephalic

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Pertaining to a large head

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Malaise

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Bad ease

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Metastasis

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Beyond control

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Neoplasm

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New growth

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20
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Pancytopenia

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Deficiency of all cells

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Paralysis

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Abnormal loss of movement on one side of the body

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Percutaneous

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Pertaining to through the skin

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Pericardium

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Surrounding the structure of the heart

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Periosteum

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Structure surrounding the bone

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Polymorphonuclear

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Pertaining to many shaped nuclei

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Polyneuritis

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Inflammation of many nerves

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Postpartum

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Pertaining to after birth

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Postoperative

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After surgery

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Prenatal

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Pertaining to before birth

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Prodromal

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Sign and symptoms that occur before the actual illness

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Prolapsed

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Sliding forward

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Pseudocyesis

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False pregnancy

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Relapse

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Returning of a disease or it’s symptoms

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Retroperitoneal

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Pertaining to behind the peritoneal

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Retroflexion

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Bending backward

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Subcutaneous

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Pertaining to under the skin

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Suprapubic

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Pertaining able the pubic bone

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Syndactyly

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Webbed together

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Tachypnea

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Fast breathing

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Tachycardia

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Pertaining fast heart beat

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transfusion

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Transfer of blood from one person to another

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Transurethral

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Pertaining across the urethral

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Transdermal

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Pertaining across the skin

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Meals cf

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Cib/o

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Skin cf

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Cutane/o

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Fingers, toes cf

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Dactyl/o

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To lead, carry cf

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Duct/o

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Forking, branching cf

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Furc/o

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Protection cf

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Immun/o

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To bind, tie, connect

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Nect/o

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Rule, order cf

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Norm/o

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Pubic cf

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Pub/o

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Infection cf

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Seps/o

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Sleep cf

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Somn/o

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Sound cf

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Son/o

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To put, place cf

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The/o

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Nipple cf

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Thel/o

Theli/o

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Thyroid gland cf

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Thyr/o

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Place, position, location cf

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Top/o

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Uretrha cf

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Urethr/o

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To secrete s

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-crine

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To run s

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-drome

63
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Coming together, to pour s

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-fusion

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Substance that produces s

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-gen

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To slide, fall, sag s

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-lapse

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To send s

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-mission

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One who s

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-or

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Oxygen s

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-oxia

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To bear, carry, feeling s

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-phoria

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To grow s

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-physis

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Development, formation, growth s

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-plasia

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Structure or formation s

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-plasm

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Breathing s

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-pnea

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Falling, drooping, prolapse s

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-ptosis

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Stopping, controlling s

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-stasis

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Development, nourishment s

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