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Vocab!! Flashcards

1
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SWIFT; FAST MOVING; UNCONTROLLED

A PRECIPICE IS A STEEP CLIF

A

PRECIPICE

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An opening or an empty area

Dental fillings are used to treat cavities

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Cavity

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Having mixed feelings

Some loved her some hated few were ambivalent about her

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Ambivalent

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A sum total of many things

The council was an aggregate of three regional assembly

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Aggregate

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Cure; A solution or remedy

The panacea for all corporate ills

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Panacea

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Scar or healed wound

He had a cicatrix from his injury in the war

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Cicatrix

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Control; protection

Negotiations were conducted under the aegis of the us

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Aegis

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The environment condition or setting

He grew up in a military milieu

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Milieu

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Beginning suddenly or abruptly

The mucus this is produced during the paroxysmal stage is thicker and more difficult to clear.

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Paroxysmal

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10
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Showing advance development

She was a precocious child

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Precocious

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A rapid increase in number

At his appointment the doctor explained the proliferation of the tumor leads to it growing rapidly.

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Proliferation

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12
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Unrestrained

The political party was rampant

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Rampant

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13
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Reason why something is not advisable or why it should not be done

Surgery may also be contraindicated for more general reasons of increased operative risk.

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Contraindication

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14
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Press downward; to make someone feel dejected

The first day of school made her nervous and she was depressed.

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Depress

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15
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Only lasting for a short period of time

Fashion trends are ephemeral.

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Ephemeral

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The cause or origin of disease

The etiology of asthmas is unknown

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Etiology

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17
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To cough up phlegm from the lungs and out of the mouth (spit)

The patient began to expectorate small amount of blood

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Expectorate

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18
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Exaggeration; making something more than it is

He ran faster than the speed of light is an example of an hyperbole.

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Hyperbole

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19
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Energy which a body possesses by virtue of being in motion

The kinetic energy of the molecules

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Kinetic

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20
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Changing rapidly and often

Patients whose blood pressure is labile

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Labile

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21
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Of a route or journey , longer than the most direct way

The driver followed a circuitous way

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Circuitous

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22
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Very careful and hardworking

She is an assiduous nurse

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Assiduous

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23
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Showing sympathy, understand generosity

The saint jude foundation has a reputation of a very benevolent spirit

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Benevolent

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Muscles secretion from the lungs, bronchi, and trachea expelled through the mouth.

The nurse needed to collect sputum

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Sputum

25
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Sound knowledge , judegment and foresight

He was a man of great medical sagacity.

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Sagacity

26
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Adverse, negative, or unseemly

They both acted as if nothing untoward had happened between them

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Untoward

27
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Everywhere at once; found everywhere

Wi-Fi connections are ubiquitous

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Ubiquitous

28
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Dull; uncommon

His words sounded trite to me

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Trite

29
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Lasting for only a short period of time or duration

In the ER there is a transient population of millions of patients each year

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Transient

30
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To the point; concise

Her presentation was terse

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Terse

31
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Determined without change or doubt

A tenacious plan

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Tenacious

32
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A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence; uncertain belief

There were working on a supposition that his death was a murder

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Supposition

33
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More than is needed, desired or necessary

The report contained a mass of superfluous details

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Superfluous

34
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Under the tongue

The medication was to be administrated sublingual

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Sublingual

35
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A liquids resistance to flow

Plasma viscosity can be used as an indirect measure of the amount of protein present in the blood

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Viscosity

36
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To regard with much respect

Ancient civilizations venerated the moon, stars, and the sun

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Venerate

37
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Worthy of respect because of wisdom or age

As an M.D. for 40 years she was considered venerable

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Venerable

38
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Serving to alleviate pain

The anodyne properties of certain drugs

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Anodyne

39
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Incapable of being corrected or amended

The plague was incorrigible in the time it took place

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Incorrigible

40
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Lacking material substance; marked by unusual delicacy or refinement

It was the smallest most ethereal and dainties bird.

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Ethereal

41
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Effectiveness ; the power to produce a desired result

I questioned the efficacy of the alarms in actually preventing auto theft

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Efficacy

42
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Characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset

The pain of childbirth may often be acute

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Acute

43
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Obvious; easily seen; not secret or hidden

She was showing an overt symptom to the fly

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Overt

44
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To go over and mentally take in the content of ; take notes

She perused the manuscript checking for grammatical errors

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Perused

45
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Showing or expressing respect and high regard to a superior or elder

She listened with deferential attention to her grandfather

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Deferential

46
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Enlarged, expanded, or stretched out (from internal pressure)

The abdomen was mildly dissented with moderate tenderness

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Distended

47
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To endow with life or renewed life; animate

Rains that vilify the barren hills

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Vivify

48
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Favoring to start wars or quarrels

The children became bellicose after too much time in the moving car

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Bellicose

49
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Following or accruing after death

He made a posthumous donation to the clinic

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Posthumous

50
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A judgement involving condemnation; denounce it

Unorthodox practices awaiting the censure of the city council

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Censure

51
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To diffuse through or penetrate something

Quick action kept the disease from permeating the general population

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Permeate

52
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A break in skin/ mucous membrane with loss of surface tissue

A sore with disintegration of tissue might be called an ulcer.

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Ulcer

53
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Marked by feeling of great happiness and excitement

He knew he was going to win big, he was euphoric about it

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Euphoric

54
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Having the ventral surface of a body facing downward

The patient is laying prone next to the monitor

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Prone

55
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To reduce violence of a disease

Travel is like a palliative against depression for him

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Palliative

56
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Pregnant

She was very Gravid

A

Gravid

57
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The hospital accepts a certain quota of indigent patients.

Indigent: in need

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Indigent

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