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| Purple-colored spots and patches that occur on the skin, organs, and in mucus membranes |
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| Enlargement of the lymph nodes |
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| Abnormally enlarged thyroid gland |
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| Condition in which the adrenal glands, located above the kidneys, do not produce adequate amounts of steroid hormones |
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| Condition in which the body does not have enough healthy red blood cells |
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| Diabetic Ketoacidosis - occurs when the body cannot use sugar (glucose) as a fuel source because there is no insulin or not enough insulin. Fat is used for fuel instead and produces ketones |
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| Diabetes Mellitus - a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced |
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| Finger Stick Blood Sugar - used to test glucose level in blood |
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| Refers to a group of bleeding disorders in which it takes a long time for the blood to clot |
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| Thyroid gland makes too much thyroid hormone |
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| Thyroid gland does not make enough thyroid hormone |
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| Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus |
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| Type of cancer of the blood or bone marrow characterized by an abnormal increase of immature white blood cells |
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| Non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus |
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| Reduction in the number of red and white blood cells as well as platelets |
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| Relative decrease of platelets in blood |
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| Operation that involved the removal of part or all of the thyroid |
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