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| being mentally alert and having sound awareness of surroundings, sensations, and thoughts. |
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| a brain disorder that results from a disruption in normal electrical impulses in the brain, which causes repeated seizures. |
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| a woman whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction is for other women. |
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| people who do not eat meat, fish, or poultry and may not eat eggs and dairy products. |
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| emergency care given immediately to an injured person by the first people to respond to an emergency. |
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| a warning sign of a CVA/stroke resulting from a temporary lack of oxygen in the brain; symptoms may last up to 24 hours. |
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| acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. |
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| vegetarians who do not eat any animal products, including milk, cheese, other dairy items, or eggs; vegans may also choose to not use or wear any animal products. |
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| a medical procedure used when a person's heart or lungs have stopped working. |
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| the act of vomiting, or ejecting stomach contents through the mouth and/or nose. |
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| acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. |
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| the term for babies who are born before 37 weeks' gestation (more than three weeks before the due date). |
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| a condition in which something is blocking the tube through which air enters the lungs. |
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| needs that involve social interactions, emotions, intellect, and spirituality. |
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| a term used by some people to describe sexual orientation that is not exclusively heterosexual and who may feel that terms such as lesbian and gay are too limiting. |
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| a condition in which babies stop breathing and die for no known reason while asleep. |
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| a method of attempting to remove an object from the airway of someone who is choking. |
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| a type of care that involves caring for the whole person - the mind as well as the body. |
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| a person whose gender identity conflicts with his or her birth sex (sex assigned at birth due to anatomy). |
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| related to thinking and learning. |
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| a condition that occurs when organs and tissues in the body do not receive an adequate blood supply. |
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| to touch or rub sexual organs in order to give oneself or another person sexual pleasure. |
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| the process of changing genders, which can include legal procedures, medical measures, telling others, and using new pronouns. |
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| DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES |
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