ALBEIT

EVEN THOUGH

ALBUMIN

NECESSARY PROTEIN PRODUCED IN THE LIVER

ARTHRITIS

INFLAMMATION OF THE JOINTS

AZATHIOPRINE

DRUG USED FOR RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

AZULFIDINE

ANTIBACTERIAL AGENT

CHLORAMBUCIL

USED IN CHEMOTHERAPY

ALSO

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT

COMPRESSION FRACTURE

ANY BREAK OR RUPTURE OF BONE DUE TO COMPRESSION

CORTICOSTEROIDS

GROUP OF STEROID USED FOR HORMONE REPLACEMENT

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE

DRUG USED IN CHEMOTHERAPY ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT

DEBILITATING

CAUSING WEAKNESS OR LACK OF STRENGTH

DEHYDRATION

RESULT OF EXCESSIVE LOSS OR INADEQUATE INTAKE OF BODY WATER

DERMATOLOGY

STUDY OF THE SKIN

DIFFUSE

WIDELY DISTRIBUTED

DISALCID

NONSTEROIDAL  ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUG FOR MINOR PAIN

DISTALLY

IN  A REMOTE DIRECTION OPPOSITE OF PROXIMAL

DOLOBID

DIFLUNISAL

USED TO TREAT MILD PAIN TO MODERATE PAIN

DYSPHAGIA

DIFFICULTY SWALLOWING

ECCHYMOSIS

BRUISE

SMALL SPOT ON SKIN OR MUCOUS MEMBRANE

ENTERITIS

INFLAMMATION OF THE INTESTINES

EROSION

DESTRUCTION OF SURFACE OF EPIDERMIS

HEALS W/O SCAR

ERYTHEMA

REDNESS OF SKIN PRODUCED BY ABNORMAL ACCUMULATION OF BLOOD

ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME

MULTIPLE SKIN LESIONS OF VARYING DEGREES OF SEVERITY

EXOPHTHALMOS

ABNORMAL PROTRUSION OF THE EYEBALL

EXUDATE

FLUID THAT ESCAPED FROM BLOOD VESSELS DEPOSITED IN TISSUES

FISSURING

SPLITTING , NORMAL OR OTHERWISE CAN INCLUDE PAINFUL ULCERATIONS

FLARE

AREA OF REDNESS OF THE SKIN

FOLIC ACID

A B COMPLEX VITAMIN LACK CAUSE SEVERE ANEMIA AND BIRTH DEFECTS

GINGIVA

THE PALE PINK TISSUES OF ORAL MUCOUSA (GUMS)

HCTZ

TREATMENT USED TO TREAT EDEMA AND HYPERTENSION

HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE

USED TO TREAT RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

HYPERPIGMENTATION

ABNORMALLY INCREASED COLORATION

HYPOREFLEXIA

DECREASED REFLEXES

IV HYDRATION

RECIEVING FLUIDS INTRAVENOUSLY

INJECTION (N)

CONDITION OF BEING CONGESTED OR OVERLOADED WITH BLOOD

INTRAVENOUS

WITHIN OR THROUGH A VEIN

KYPHOSIS

ABNORMALLY INCREASED CURVATURE OF THE THORACIC SPINE (HUMPBACK)

LEUCOVORIN

USED TO TREAT BOTH ANEMIA AND MALIGNANCIES

LIDEX GEL

TOPICALLY APPLIED GEL

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENT

LIVER ENZYMES

PROTEIN MOLECULES INDUCE CHEMICAL REACTIONS IN THE LIVER

MACULAR

NONELEVATED DISCOLORED SPOT ON THE SKIN

METHOTREXATE

CHEMOTHERAPY DRUG USED IN IMMUNOSUPPRESSANT DISORDERS

NEPHROCALCINOSIS

SCATTERD CALCIFICATIONS IN THE KIDNEYS LEADING TO RENAL INSUFFICIENCY

NSAID

ABBREV. NONSTEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUG

OSTEOPOROSIS

REDUCTION IN BONE MASS

PALATE

ROOF OF THE MOUTH

PENICILLAMINE

USED TO TREAT RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

PERIMALLEOLAR

AROUND THE BONY PROTUBERANCES ON EITHER SIDE OF THE ANKLE

PITTNG EDEMA

TOO MUCH FLUID IN THE TISSUES

p.o.[L.]

BY MOUTH

POSTERIOR PHARYNX

BACK OF THE THROAT

PREDNISONE

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DRUG

PREMARIN

TRADE NAME PREPERATIONS OF ESTROGEN

QUIESCENT

AT REST, INACTIVE

REGIMEN

STRICTLY REGULATED PLAN OF THERAPY

RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

CHRONIS SYSTEMIC PAINFUL JOINT DISEASE CAN CAUSE DEFORMITIES

SERUM CHOLESTEROL

LEVEL OF CHOLESTEROL IN THE LIVER AND OTHER TISSUES HIGH LEVELS CLOG ARTERIES

STASIS EDEMA

STAGNATION OF THE FLOW OF BLOOD OR FLUIDS RESULTING IN SWELLING

STEVENS-JOHNSONS SYNDROME

SEVERE SOMETIMES FATAL MULTISYSTEMIC FORM OF ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME

STOMATITIS

INFLAMMATION OF THE ORAL MUCOSA

t.i.d.

3 TIMES A DAY

TOPICALLY

SURFACE AREA

APPLYING A SUBSTANCE TO A CERTAIN AREA

TOTAL PROTEIN

LABRATORY TEST TO DETERMINE LEVEL OF ALL PROTEINS IN THE SERUM

VERTEBRAL BODIES

ANY OF THE 33 BONES OF THE SPINAL CANAL

VOLUME DEPLETION

DEHYDRATED STATE

WESTERGREN SEDIMENTATION RATE