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Abstain

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To voluntarily obtain from something

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Accountable

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To be responsible

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Acute

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Sudden, Intense

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Adhere

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To hold fast or stick together

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Adverse

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Undesired, possibly harmful

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Ambivalent

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Uncertain Having contradictory feelings

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Ambulate

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To walk

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Apply

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To place, put on or spread something

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Assent

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To give consent, to agree

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Audible

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Able to be heard

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Bacteria

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single-celled microscopic organisms

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Bilateral

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Present on two sides

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Cardiac

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Of or relating to the heart

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Cavity

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An opening or an empty area

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Cease

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come to an end or bring to an end

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Chronic

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Lasting or recurring over a long period of time

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chronology

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Order of events as they occurred: time line

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Compensatory

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Offsetting or making up for something

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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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Congenital

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present at birth

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Consistency

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Degree of viscosity, How thick or thin is in relation to how it flows

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Constrict

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To draw together or become smaller

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Contingent

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Dependent

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Contraindiction

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A reason of something is not advisable or should not be done.

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Convulsive

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Having or causing convulsions IE violent shaking of the body

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Cursory

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Quick perfunctory not thorough

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Defecate

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Expel feces

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Deficit

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A deficiency or lack of something

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Depress

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press downward

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Depth

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Downward measurement from a surface

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Deteriorating

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Worsening

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Diagnosis

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Identification of an injury or disease

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Diffuse

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Spread over a large area: Generalized

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Dilate

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To enlarge or expand

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Dilute

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To make a liquid less concentrated

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Discrete

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Distinct, Separate

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Distal

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Distant: Away from the center

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Distended

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Enlarged or expanded from pressure

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Dysfunction

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Impaired or abnormal functioning

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Empathy

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Ability to share what others are feeling: understanding the feeling of another

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equilibrium

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Balance

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Etiology

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The origin or cause of disease or condition

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Exacerbate

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To make worse or more severe

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Exposure

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To come in contact

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Extension

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Lengthening: unbending a joint

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Fatal

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Resulting in death

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fatigue

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extreme tiredness exhaustion

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Febrile

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Related to or caused by a fever

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Flexion

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Bending a joint

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Flushed

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Reddened or ruddy appearance

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Gastrointestinal

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of or relating to the stomach and the intestines

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Hematologic

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Of or relating to blood

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Hydation

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maintenance of body fluid balance

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Hygiene

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measures contributing to cleanliness and good health

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Impaired

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diminished or lacking some quality or level

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impending

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occurring in the near future about to happen

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impervious

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Impenetrable Not allowing anything to pass through

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Imply

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To suggest without explicitly stating

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Incidence

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Occurrence

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Infection

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Contamination or invasion of body tissue by pathogenic organisms

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infer

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to conclude or deduce

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Inflamed

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Reddened, swollen, warm , and often tender

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ingest

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To swallow for digestion

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initiate

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to begin or put into practice

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insidious

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Gradual as to not become apparent for a long time

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intact

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In place, unharmed

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intubate

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to insert a tube into something (usually a patients airway)

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Invasive

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Inserting or entering into a body part

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Kinetic

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Of or related to movement

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Labile

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Changing rapidly and often

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Laceration

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Cut: Tear

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Latent

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Present but not active or visible

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Lateral

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On the side

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Lethargic

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Difficult to arouse

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Manifestation

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An indication or sign of a condition

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Musculoskeletal

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Of or relating to muscle and skeleton

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Neurologic

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Of or relating to the nervous system

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Neurovascular

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Of or relating to the nervous system and blood vessels

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Nutrient

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Substance or Ingredient that provides nourishment

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Occluded

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Closed or obstructed

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ongoing

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Continuous

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oral

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Given through or affecting the mouth

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Otic

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of the ear

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parameter

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a characteristic or consent factor

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Patent

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open

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pathogenic

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Causing or able to cause disease

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Pathology

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Processes, causes and effects: abnormality

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posterior

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Located behind

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Potent

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Producing a strong effect

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potential

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Capable of occurring or likely to occur

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Precaution

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Preventive measure

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Precipitous

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Rapid uncontrolled

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predispose

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to make more susceptible or more likely to occur

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preexisting

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Already present

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primary

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First or most significant

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priority

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Of great importance

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prognosis

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The anticipated or expected course or outcome

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Rationale

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The underlying reason

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Recur

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To occur again

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Renal

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of or relating to the kidneys

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residual

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Remaning, continuing

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Respiration

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Inhalation or exhalation or air

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Retain

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To hold or keep

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Status

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Condition

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subcutaneous

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Under the skin

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sublingual

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Under the tongue

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supplement

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To take in addition to or to complete

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Suppress

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to stop or subdue

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symmetric

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Being equal or the same in size, shape and relative position

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symptom

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An indication of a problem

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syndrome

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Group of system that, when occurring together, reflect a specific disease or disorder

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Therapeutic

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Of or relating to the treatment of a disease or disorder

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toxic

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Causing harm, poisonous

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Transdermal

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Crossing through the skin

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Transmission

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Transfer, such of a disease, from one person to another

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Trauma

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Injury wound

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Triage

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Process used to determine the priority of treatment for patients according to the severity of a patients condition and the likelihood of benefit from the treatment `

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Ubiquitous

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Being or seeming to be everywhere at once

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Urinate

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Excrete or Expel urine

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Vascular

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Of or relating to blood vessels

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Vascular

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Of or relating to blood vessels

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Virulent

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Extremely harmful and severe

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Virus

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Microscopic infectious agent capable of replicating only in living cells usually causing infectious disease

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Vital

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Essential

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Volume

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Amount of space occupied by a fluid

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