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Abrupt

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Sudden

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Abstain

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Stay away from something

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Access

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Enter

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Accountable

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Responsible

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Adhere

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Stick together

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Adverse

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Undesired, harmful

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Affect

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Impact, influence

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Annual

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Occurring every year

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Apply

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To place or to put on

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Audible

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To be heard, or perceptible

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Bilateral

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On both sides

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Cardiac

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Related to the heart

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Cast

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Hard protective device applied to protect broken bones

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Cavity

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Opening or empty area

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Cease

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To end

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Compensatory

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Offsetting or making up for something

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Complication

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Undesired problem

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Comply

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Do as directed

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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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Consistency

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Degree of viscosity

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Constrict

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To shrink or become smaller

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Contingent

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Dependent

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Contour

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Shape or outline

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Contract

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To reduce in size

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Contraindication

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Why something is not advisable and should not be done.

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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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Measure how deep is is something downward from the surface

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Deteriorating

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Worsening

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Device

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Tool or piece of equipment

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Diagnosis

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Identification of injury or disease

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Diameter

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Distance across the center

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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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Disconnected, Separated ( like the chicken pox lesions)

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Distended

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Enlarged or swollen. “Distended stomach”

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Dysfunction

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Abnormal functioning

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Elevate

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To lift up

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Endogenous

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Produced within the body

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Exacerbate

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To make worse or more severe

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Excess

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Surplus (more than what is needed)

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Exogenous

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Produced outside of the body

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Expand

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To increase in size or amount

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Exposure

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Contact with someone or something

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External

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Located outside of the body

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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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Flaccid

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Limp, lacking tone

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Flushed

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Reddened appearance

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Gaping

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Wide open

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Gastrointestinal

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Related to the stomach and intestines

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Gender

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Male or Female (the sex of a person)

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Hematologic

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Blood related

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Hydration

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Maintenance of bloody fluids

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Hygiene

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Cleanliness

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Impaired

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Lacking some usual quality or level

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Impending

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Be about to happen. “My impending departure”

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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 pathogens

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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

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Initiate

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To start something

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Insidious

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Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects.
“Sexually transmitted diseases can be insidious and sometimes without symptoms.”

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Intact

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Not damaged or impaired in any way; complete. ( in place)

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Internal

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Within the body

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Invasive

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Involving entry into the body by cutting or by inserting an instrument

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Labile

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Changing rapidly or Volatile

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Laceration

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A deep cut to the skin or flesh.

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Latent

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Present but not active or visible. ( Like cancer)

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Lethargic

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Difficult to arouse

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Manifestation

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Indication or sign of a condition. (Like the rash in chicken pox is the manifestation of the varicella zoster virus.)

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Musculoskeletal

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Relating to muscle

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Neurologic

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Related to the nervous system

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Neurovascular

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Related to the nervous system and blood vessels

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Nutrient

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Ingredient that provides nourishment

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Occluded

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Closed or obstructed. Makeup can occlude the pores of the skin.

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Ominous

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Important

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Ongoing

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Continuous

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Oral

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Given trough or affecting the mouth

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Overt

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Obvious, evident, easily observed.

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Parameter

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A characteristic or constant factor, limit.

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Paroxysmal

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Sudden, violent outburst. For example a sudden, abrupt breathing pattern.

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Patent

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Open

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Pathology

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Processes, causes or effects of a disease

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Posterior

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Behind

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Potent

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Strong

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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 something more likely to occur. To expose to something.

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Preexisting

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Already present

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Primary

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First

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Priority

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Of great importance

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Prognosis

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Anticipated or expected outcome

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Rationale

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The underlying reason. (Az oka valaminek)

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Recur

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To occur again

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Renal

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Related to the kidney

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Respiration

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Breathing

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Restrict

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To limit. For example to limit fluid intake

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Retain

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To hold or keep ( for example to hold fluid, swelling)

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Site

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Location

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Status (The patient’s status is her/his …)

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Condition

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Strict

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Stringent, exact, complete, enforcing rules

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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

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Suppress

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Stop

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Symmetric

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Being equal or same in size or shape

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Symptom

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Indication if a problem

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Syndrome

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Group of symptoms that together reflect a specific disease or disorder.

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Therapeutic

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  • Producing good effects on your body or mind

- Of or relating to the treatment of illness

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Transdermal

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Crossing trough the skin

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Transmission

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Transfer, such as of disease

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Trauma

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Injury, wound

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Triage

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Determine the priority of treatment for patients according to the severity of a patient’s condition.

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Untoward

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Negative, not good, adverse

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Urinate

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Excrete urine

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Vascular

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Related to blood vessels

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Verbal

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Spoken

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Virus

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Microscopic infectious agent usually causing infectious disease

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Vital

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Essential

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Void

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Excrete urine from the body.

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Volume

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Amount of space occupied by fluid

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Distal

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Further away from the point of attachment

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Proximal

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Closer to the point of attachment

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Inferior

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Below

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Superior

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Above

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Anterior

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Facing forward

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Posterior

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Toward the back

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Saggital ( body cut)

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The median plane of the body. ( between legs, breast middle cut)

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Transverse ( body cut)

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(Also called the horizontal plane, axial plane, or transaxial plane) An imaginary plane that divides the body into superior and inferior parts.

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Frontal ( body cut)

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The coronal or frontal plane divides the body into dorsal and ventral (back and front, or posterior and anterior) portions.

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Docile

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Easily thought or handled. Bring compliant.

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Progeny

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Offspring

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Indigent people

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Poor people

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Febrile

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Having fever

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Decomposition

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Lysis

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Implement something

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Cause it to happen.

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Unseemly

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Inappropriate

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Proliferation

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Increase

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Ravenous

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Hungry

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