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1
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Abstain

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To voluntary refrain from something

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Abrupt

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Sudden and possibly unexpected

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Accolade

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Tribute or honor

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Accountable

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To be responsible

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Acute

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Sudden, intense

The nurse administered they prescribe pain medication to the patient who is experiencing acute pain after surgery

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Adverse

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Undesired, possibly harmful

Vomiting is an adverse effect of many medications

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Aegis

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Control, protection

Unit staffing decisions are under aegis of nursing manager

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Aggregate

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A some total of many things

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Aggrieved

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Hurt or angry

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Ambivalent

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Uncertain, having contradictory feelings

After learning that she had breast cancer the patient was ambivalent about having a mastectomy.

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Anachronism

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A thing of the past

My disease is anachronism

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Antidote

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Cure or remedy

I need an antidote for this headache

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13
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Alleviate

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Reduce

The medicine is alleviating my pain

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Apply

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To place on, put on or to spread

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Assent

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To get consent, to agree

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Audible

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Able to be heard.

The respiratory therapist noticed the patients out of the wheezing as a symptom of the patients asthma.

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Bacteria

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Single – Cell, microscopic organism

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Barrage

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Bombardment, onslaught (contagious attack)

This staph disease is so barrage, I keep getting butt pimples.

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Bearing

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Manner, direction,or influence

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Benign

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Not harmful

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21
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Bilateral

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Present on two sides

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Callous

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Heartless, Carol, or Pitiless

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Cardiac

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Of or relating to the heart

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24
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Cataract

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Medical condition in which the lens of the eye becomes progressively overpaid, resulting and blurred vision.

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Cavity

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An opening or empty area

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26
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Cease

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Come to an end or bring to an end

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Chronology

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Order of events as they occurred, timeline

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Compensatory

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

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Concave

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Rounded inward.

Example – red blood cells

30
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Concise

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Brief, to the point

31
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Consistency

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Degree of viscosity, how thick or thin a fluid is in relation to how it flows. Texture

32
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Constrict

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To drive together or become smaller.

Example – blood vessels constrict when they are in a cold environment.

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Contingent

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Depend/reliant

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Contraindication

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A reason something is not advisable or should not be done

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Convoluted

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To be complex.

Example – her symptoms were very consulted: back pain, headache and severe nosebleed.

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Convulsive

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Having a causing convulsions – violent shaking of the body

example – epilepsy

37
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Covert

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I Hidden or concealed.

Example – her bruises or Coovert under her clothes.

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Cursory

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Quick, perfunctory, not thorough

Example – run a cursory examination on the adult.

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Defecate

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Expel feces

40
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Deficit

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A deficiency or lack of something

41
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Delusional

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Confused or mistaken

42
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Depresse

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Press downward

43
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Depth

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Downward measurement from a service

44
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Desiccated

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Dried or weathered. Example – her faces were desiccated

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Deteriorating

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Worsening

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Device

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Tool or piece of equipment

47
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Diagnosis

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Identification of an injury or disease

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Dilate

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To enlarge or expand

49
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Dilute

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To make a liquid less concentrated

50
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Discrete

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Distinct, separate

example – her bruises were so discrete, scattered all around her body

51
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Distal

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Distinct; away from the center – body

52
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Distended

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Enlarged or expanded from pressure.

Example – her stomach looked like a balloon it was distended .

53
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Docile

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Easily handled, Tame I.e. Not dangerous or frightened by people.

Example – the little girl was docile, very gullible.

54
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Dysfunction

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Repaired or a normal functioning

55
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Earthly

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Worldly or possible

56
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Empathy

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Ability to share what others are feeling, understanding the feelings of others

57
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Endogenerous

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Developing internally of body. Example Dash cells are Endogenerous

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Eradicate

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To destroy completely. Example – everyone wants to eradicate cancer

59
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Equilibrium

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Balance

60
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Ethereal

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Being extremely delicate or refined, ghostly, or eerie

61
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Etiology

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The origin or cause of a disease or condition

62
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Euphemism

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In an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive.

Example I’m sorry but your father passed away

63
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Euphoric

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Confident

example – I am euphoric about this exam

64
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Exacerbate

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To make worse or more severe

65
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Exogenous

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Developing externally a body example hair is exogenous

66
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Expand

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To increase in size or amount

67
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Expectorate

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To cover up discharge from the lines through the mouth – spit

68
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Exposure

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To come in contact

69
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Extension

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Lengthening; unbending a joint

70
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External

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Located outside the body

71
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Painstaking

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Done with employing great care

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