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Drug classification Terms
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11th Grade
05/24/2011
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Enter
 Definition
small intestine
Term
Gastr
 Definition
stomache
Term
Nephr
 Definition
kidney the noun ex. nephritis
Term
renan
 Definition
kidney adj renalartery
Term
phleb
 Definition
vain with IV
Term
Vas
 Definition
blood vessels
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Ven
 Definition
Vain
Term
Cardi
 Definition
heart
Term
pulm
 Definition
lung
Term
encephal
 Definition
brain
Term
col
 Definition
large intestine
Term
Cyst
 Definition
bladder
Term
cholecyst
 Definition
gall bladder
Term
itis
 Definition
imfamation
Term
emia
 Definition
in the blood
Term
anti
 Definition
against
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dilate
 Definition
stretches the internal diameter of a tube (blood vessel) and lowers Blood pressuremaking it fatter
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constrict
 Definition
squeezes the internal diameter of a tube (blood vessel) and raising Blood pressuremaking it thinner
Term
toxic
 Definition
poisonous, damaging
Term
hyper
 Definition
high
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hypo
 Definition
low
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kal
 Definition
potassium K+
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natr
 Definition
sodium NA+
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vol
 Definition
volume (hypovolemia)-low blood volume
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thromb
 Definition
clot attatched to vein
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embol
 Definition
blood clot breaks free and floats in the blood stream and clogged a small vessel of a major organ causing cell death. (pulmonary embolism, strokes MI heart attack)
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