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1
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To voluntarily refrain from something

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Abstain

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Sudden and possibly unexpected

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Abrupt

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3
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Tribute or honor

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Accolade

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4
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To be responsible

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Accountable

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Sudden,intense.

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Acute

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To hold fast or stick together

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Adhere

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7
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Undesired, possibly harmful

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Adverse

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8
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Control,protection

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Aegis

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9
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Hurt or angry

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Aggrieved

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10
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A sum total of many things

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Aggregate

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11
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Uncertain, having contradictory feelings

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Ambivalent

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12
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A thing of the past

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Anachronism

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13
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Cure or remedy

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Antidote

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14
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Stimulates the production of antibodies

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Antigen

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15
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Reduce. “The medicine is alleviating my pain.”

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Alleviate

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16
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To place,put on or spread on something

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Apply

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17
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To give consent, to agree

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Assent

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18
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Able to be heard

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Audible

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19
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Single-celled, microscopic organisms

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Bacteria

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20
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Bombardment, onslaught

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Barrage

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21
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Manner,direction or influence

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Bearing

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22
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Not harmful

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Benign

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23
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Presenting on two sides

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Bilateral

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24
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Heartless, cruel or pitiless

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Callous

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25
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Of or relating to the heart

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Cardiac

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26
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Medical condition in which the lens of the eye becomes progressively opaque,resulting in blurred vision

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Cataract

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27
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An opening or an empty area

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Cavity

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28
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Come to an end, to bring to an end

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Cease

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29
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Order of events as they occurred;timeline

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Chronology

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30
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Offsetting (amount that diminishes or balances the effect of a contrary one) or making up for something. Best described as corrective.

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Compensatory

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31
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something that completes or makes up a whole

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Complement

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32
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Rounded inward

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Concave

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33
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Brief, to the point

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Concise

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34
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Degree of viscosity; how thick or thin a fluid is in relation to how it flows. (Texture).

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Consistency

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35
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To establish, create, or organize

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Constitute

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36
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To draw together or become smaller.

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Constrict

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37
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Dependent/reliant

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Contingent

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38
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A reason something is not advisable or should not be done.

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Contraindication

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39
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To be complex.

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Convoluted

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40
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Having or causing convulsions (violent shaking of the body [epilepsy])

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Convulsive

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41
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Hidden or concealed.

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Convert

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42
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Quick, perfunctory, not thorough.

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Cursory

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43
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Expel feces

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Defecate

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44
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to throw someone out of a window

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defenestrate

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45
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A deficiency or lack of something.

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Deficit

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46
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Confused or mistaken

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Delusional

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47
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Press downward

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Depress

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48
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Downward measurement from a surface.

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Depth

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49
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Dried or withered. “Her feces were desiccated”

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Desiccated

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50
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Worsening

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Deteriorating

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51
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Tool or piece of equipment

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Device

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52
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Identification of an injury or disease.

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Diagnosis

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53
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To enlarge or expand

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Dilate

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54
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To make a liquid less concentrated.

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Dilute

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55
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Distinct, separate.

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Discrete

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56
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Distant; away from the center (body).

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Distal

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57
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Enlarged or expanded from pressure.

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Distended

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58
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Easily handled, tame i.e. not dangerous or frightened by people.

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Docile

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59
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Impaired or abnormal functioning.

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Dysfunction

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60
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Worldly or possible

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Earthly

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61
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Ability to share what others are feeling; understanding the feelings of another.

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Empathy

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62
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Developing internally of body.

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Endogenous

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63
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To destroy completely.

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Eradicate

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64
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Balance

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Equilibrium

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65
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Being extremely delicate or refined, ghostly, or eerie.

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Ethereal

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66
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The origin or cause of a disease or condition.

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Etiology

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67
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An inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive. “Im sorry, but your father passed away.”

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Euphemism

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68
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Confident

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Euphoric

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69
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To make worse or more severe

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Exacerbate

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70
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Developing externally of body.

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Exogenous

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71
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To increase in size or amount

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Expand

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72
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To cough up discharge from the lungs through the mouth. (spit).

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Expectorate

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73
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To come in contact

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Exposure

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74
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Lengthening; unbending a joint.

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Extension

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75
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Located outside the body

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External

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76
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Resulting in death

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Fatal

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77
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Extreme tiredness, exhaustion.

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Fatigue

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78
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Feeling feverish

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Febrile

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79
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Soft and hanging loosely or limply, especially so as to look or feel unpleasant. (LIMP) (PENIS)

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Flaccid

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80
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Bending a joint. “FLEXING YOUR ARM”

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Flexion

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81
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Reddened or ruddy appearance

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Flushed

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82
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Omit (to leave out or exclude).

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Forgo

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83
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Of or relating to the stomach and the intestines.

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Gastrointestinal

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84
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Bad breath

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Halitosis

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85
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Evade, circumvent, or dodge. (ESCAPE OR AVOID).

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Hedge

86
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To be thoughtless, unmindful, or careless.

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Heedless

87
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Of or relating to blood.

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Hematologic

88
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Maintenance of body fluid balance.

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Hydration

89
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Measures contributing to cleanliness and good health.

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Hygiene

90
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Diminished or lacking some usual quality or level.

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Impaired

91
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Occurring in the near future, about to happen.

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Impending

92
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Impenetrable, not allowing anything to pass through. “skin”

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Impervious

93
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To put into action or to cause it to happen.

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Implement

94
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To suggest without explicitly stating. (Sender of a message implies)

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Imply

95
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Occurrence

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Incidence

96
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Contamination or invasion of body tissue by pathogenic organisms.

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Infection

97
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To conclude or deduce- arrive at a fact. (The receiver of the message infers)

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Infer

98
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Reddened, swollen, warm, and often tender.

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Inflamed

99
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To swallow for digestion

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Ingest

100
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To hold back, constrain, reduce, or slow.

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Inhibits

101
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To begin or to put into practice

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Initiate

102
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So gradual as to not become apparent (clearly visible) for a long time.

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Insidious

103
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In place,unharmed, or whole

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Intact

104
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Located within the body.

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Internal

105
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Inserting or entering into a body part.

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Invasive

106
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Of or relating to movement.

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Kinetic

107
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Changing rapidly and often. (VOLATILE)

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Labile

108
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Cut , tear

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Laceration

109
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Present but not active or visible.

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Latent

110
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On the side

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Lateral

111
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Bequest or relic.

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Legacy

112
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sluggish, languid

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Lethargic

113
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the watery fluid in the lymph vessels collected from the tissue spaces

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Lymph

114
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Sickness, condition, or dissatisfaction.

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Malaise

115
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Expected to grow and worsen.

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Malignant

116
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An indication or sign of a condition.

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Manifestation

117
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The environmental condition or setting.

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Milieu

118
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Of or relating to muscle and skeleton.

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Musculoskeletal

119
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Vague (uncertain, unclear

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Nebulous

120
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Of or relating to the nervous system.

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Neurologic

121
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Of or relating to the nervous system and blood vessels.

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Neurovascular

122
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Substance or ingredient that provides nourishment.

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Nutrient

123
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Ignorant

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Obtuse

124
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Closed or obstructed.

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Occluded

125
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Giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious. (portentous).

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Ominous

126
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Giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious. (portentous).

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Ominous

127
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Ongoing

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Continuous

128
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Given through or affecting the mouth.

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Oral

129
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Of the ear

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Otic

130
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Dungeon, prison, or cell.

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Oubliette

131
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Obvious or visible

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Overt

132
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Aching (sore, throbbing with pain)

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Pain

133
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Worthless

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Paltry

134
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Cure, solution, or remedy.

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Panacea

135
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A characteristic or constant FACTOR, limit. Structure. Guideline.

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Parameter

136
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Sudden, recurrence spasms or seizures

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Paroxysmal

137
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Open

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Patent

138
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Causing or able to cause a disease.

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Pathogenic

139
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Processes, causes, and effects of a disease; abnormality.

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Pathology

140
Q

Infested with lice

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Pediculosis

141
Q

Located behind; in the back.

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Posterior

142
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Producing a strong effect

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Potent

143
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Capable of occurring or likely to occur.

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Potential

144
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Preventive measure.

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Precaution

145
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Rapid, uncontrolled.

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Precipitous

146
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To make more susceptible or more likely to occur. make someone liable or inclined to a specified attitude, action, or condition.
“lack of exercise may predispose an individual to high blood pressure”.

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Predispose

147
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Already existing

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Preexisting

148
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First or most significant.

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Primary

149
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Of great importance.

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Priority

150
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Offspring

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Progeny

151
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The anticipated or expected course or outcome; the forecast (EX: The physician explained that, with treatment, the patient’s prognosis was for a long and healthy life.)

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Prognosis

152
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A rapid increase in number.

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Proliferation

153
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To forbid

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Proscribe

154
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quarrelsome, fond of fighting

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Pugnacious

155
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4 times a day

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Q.I.D

156
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Strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of a disease or to exclude, detain, or isolate. (CONFINEMENT: keep or restrict someone from something)

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Quarantine

157
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Wild, loud, or disorderly.

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Raucous

158
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Unrestrained.

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Rampant

159
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Smelling unpleasant.

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Rancid

160
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The underlying reason| LOGIC. (EX: To make sure that the patient will follow the diet instructions, the medical assistant explains the rationale for the low-salt diet.)

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Rationale

161
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Hungry.

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Ravenous

162
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To occur again.

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Recur

163
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To entertain, amuse, or delight

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Regale

164
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A systematic plan for therapy.

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Regimen

165
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Thing of the past

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Relic

166
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Improvement or absence of signs of disease.

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Remission

167
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Of or relating to the kidneys.

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Renal

168
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Inhalation or exhalation of air.

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Respiration

169
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To limit

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Restrict

170
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To hold or keep

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Retain

171
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Not flexible

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Rigid

172
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Calm,tranquil

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Serene

173
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An Unmarried woman

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Spinster

174
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A mixture of saliva and mucus coughed up from the respiratory tract, typically as a result of infection or other disease.

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Sputum

175
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Condition

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Status

176
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Under the tongue

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Sublingual

177
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Having substance or sustaining. Strengthen or support physically or mentally.

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Substantial

178
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To take in addition to or to complete.

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Supplement

179
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To stop or subdue. (counter).

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Suppress

180
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A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence.

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Supposition

181
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Likely or liable to be influenced or harmed by a particular thing.

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Susceptible

182
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occurring in corresponding parts at the same time

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Symmetric (Symmetrical)

183
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An indication of a problem

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Symptom

184
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Group of symptoms that, when occurring together, reflect a specific disease or disorder.

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Syndrome

185
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A system to return patients to wellness.

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Tertiary Health Care

186
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Of or relating to the treatment of a disease or a disorder.

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Therapeutic

187
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Causing harm or poisonous.

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Toxic

188
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Crossing through the skin.

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Transdermal

189
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Transfer, such as of a disease, from one person to another.

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Transmission

190
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Injury, wound.

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Trauma

191
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Process used to determine the priority of treatment for patients according to the severity of a patient’s condition and the likelihood of benefit from the treatment.

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Triage

192
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Being or seeming to be everywhere at once.

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Ubiquitous

193
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Adverse, negative.

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Untoward

194
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Excrete or expel urine.

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Urinate

195
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Of or relating to blood vessels.

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Vascular

196
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Spoken, using words.

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Verbal

197
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Extremely harmful and severe.

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Virulent

198
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Microscopic infectious agent capable of replicating only in living cells, usually causing infectious disease.

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Virus

199
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Essential

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Vital

200
Q

To urinate.

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Void

201
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Labile, change rapidly.

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Volatile

202
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Amount of space occupied by a fluid.

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Volume

203
Q

become less in amount or intensity

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Abate

204
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to give up or leave

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Abdicate

205
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once a day

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q.d

206
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At bedtime

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ATBE

207
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every 8 hours

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q8h

208
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more votes than anyone else, but less than half

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Plurality

209
Q

Baby is delivered feet or buttocks first

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Breech birth

210
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Plastic prongs placed in nose to deliver oxygen

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Cannula

211
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the simultaneous presence of two chronic diseases or conditions in a patient

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Co-morbidity

212
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harmful, injurious

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deleterious

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