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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
mitigate
make less severe
stern voice
strict and severe
Spanking
the use of physical force with the intention of causing a child to experience pain, but not injury, for the purpose of correcting or controlling the child’s behavior. Spanking is never encouraged and is totally discouraged by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
your trials with puberty
trial: experiment, test,
introspective
introspective: spends considerable time examining his own thoughts and feelings. They tend to smooth out and the adolescent will become more introspective.
trivia game
An example of trivia is a game in which team members race to see who can be the first to answer questions about insiginificant facts of history, popular culture,
disfigurement
the action of spoiling the appearance of something or someone
relayed
questions relayed and answered. relayed: receive and pass on
arenas
all arenas of health care. arena: a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
hollow
Telling the adolescent the staff enjoys teens is hollow unless the girl experiences this behavior. hollow: having a hole or empty space inside
a void
opening, gap. b : empty space : emptiness
perforation
a hole made by boring or piercing
detrimental
Temperatures that are too cold or too warm are detrimental: tending to cause harm
brisk
fast, active, energetic
torpedo
a cigar-shaped self-propelled underwater missile
engross
demonstrated a unique ability to engross adolescents’ attention.
absorb all the attention or interest of
ophthalmologist
oph·thAl·mOl·o·gist
a specialist of the eyes
intermittent bouts
Bout: a short period of intense activity of a specified kind. period, time.
Hearing loss can be associated with intermittent bouts of acute otitis media
pustular
pocchooal
Red pus-feeled bump: pimple
Pustules are small bumps on the skin that contain fluid or pus
pustular drainage
shrill cry
having or emitting a sharp high-pitched tone or sound
