Vocab List 3 Flashcards
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Palpitation
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Forcible or irregular pulsation of the heart felt by the patient
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Infection
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Contamination of disease-producing germs
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Ambulatory
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Able to walk
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Febrile
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Pertaining to a fever
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Afebrile
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Without a fever
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Rale
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Bubbling or noisy sound caused by fluid or mucus in the air passages
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Pallor
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Paleness, lack of color
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Noninvasive
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Performing a procedure without penetrating the body
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Asphyxia
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Suffocation
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Anatomy
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Study of the structure of an organism
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Physiology
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Study of the function of a living organism
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Agglutination
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Clumping of foreign cells
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Exudate
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Fluid, pus or cells that have escaped from blood vessels into the tissue
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Serum
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Amber-colored fluid that exudes from clotted blood as a clot shrinks
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Lymph
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Thin watery fluid that forms when plasma diffuses into tissue spaces
