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Vocabulary Flashcards

1
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Offsetting

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Compensatory

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Terrestrial

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Earthy

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Labile

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Likely to change

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Belligerent

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Pugnacious

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Sardonic

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Mocking, sneering

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Allocate

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Reverse for a specific reason

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Elated

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Super happy

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Untoward

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Improper or unfortunate

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Variable

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Something that changes

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Homologous

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Having the same relative position

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Parameter

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Guideline

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Allocated

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Reserved for a particular reason

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Dystrophy

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Weakening, degeneration l, or abnormal growth of muscle

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Atrophy

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Degeneration or wasting away

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Entropy

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Tendency toward chaos and disorder

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Discrete

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Seperate

Discrete symptoms are those that have no connection to one another

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Discreet

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Careful

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18
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Exposure

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Laying open

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19
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Exacerbate

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Aggravate

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Phlebotomist

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Person specialising in withdrawing blood

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Exacerbate

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Aggravate

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22
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Implicate

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To demonstrate involvement or assign blame

Often, doctors will implicate seemingly unrelated behaviors on a patient’s condition.

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Insensitive

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Not responsive

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Impending

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About to happen

Impending doom

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Geometric

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Things that resemble the classic geometric shapes like squares, circles and triangles

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Converted

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Changes or altered

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Repugnant (repug- nant)

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Offensive, especially to the senses or the morals

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Protrude

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Stick out

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Ingress

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Entering or going in

Determine a disease’s path of ingress to the body

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Incidence

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Rate of occurence

31
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Incidents

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Random events

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Proscribe

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Forbid

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Distended

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Swollen

34
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Supplement

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Something added to resolve a deficiency or obtain completion

35
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Acumen

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Expertise

36
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Congruent

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Agreeing or in complete accord

37
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Bicuspid

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Anything that ends in two points

38
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Labile

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Likely to change ; unstable

39
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Venereal

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Describe conditions that relate to sexual intercourse (venereal disease, STD)

40
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Entrails

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Internal parts ; intestines

41
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Androgynous

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Both male and female

Androgynous characteristics

42
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Terrestrial

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Earthly

Terrestrial vs. aqueous

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Alien

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Things that are unfamiliar or from an outside source

A person with a mysterious ailment might try to identify some contact with alien substances

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Foreign

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People or things that are from some other area or country

Foreign objects are forbidden when medical procedures are being performed.

45
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Apply

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To put something to use

Having a relevant or valid connection to something else

46
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Concise

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Straightforward

Absent of all excessive detail

47
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Contraindication

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The presence of a symptom or condition that would make a specific treatment unadvisable

48
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Diagnosis

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Determining the dysfunction

49
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Diameter

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The length of a line that passes through the body of an object

50
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Hematologic

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Concerning blood

51
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Incidence (other version)

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The arrival of something at the surface; something that occurs or affects something else

52
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Insidious

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Something or someone who is enticing but dangerous; slow- developing dangerousness

53
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Nutrient

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Something that provides nourishment

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Paroxysmal

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Characterised by a sudden fit or attack of symptoms; may be a sudden emotion or uncontrollable action

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Potent

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Able to copulate as a male; refers to something that is chemically or medically effective

56
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Prognosis

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The possibility off recovering after the diagnosis of an illness or disease

57
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Rationale

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An explanation regarding the principles, opinions, beliefs, or practices held by a specific party

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Recur

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Revisited for a second time

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Syndrome

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A group of symptoms that happen close together and suggest an illness or irregular condition

60
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Transdermal

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Passing through the skin

61
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Triage

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A system that helps to determine which patients need the most care by evaluating their condition and chances of responding positively to treatment

62
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Virus

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A microscopic pathogen that replicates in living cells and can cause disease

63
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Dipsomaniac

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Someone that drinks a crazy amount of alcohol

64
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Proscribe

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Forbid

65
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Belligerent

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Ready to fight

Pugnacious

66
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Pugnacious

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Ready to fight

Belligerent

67
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Sardonic

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Mocking

Sneering

68
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Offsetting

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Compensatory

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