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| Pertaining to away from the normal |
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| Process of being stuck together |
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| Pertaining to an agent that works against fever |
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| Pertaining to an agent that works against sepsis; putrefaction |
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| Pertaining to an agent that works against coughing |
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| Without decay; sterile, free from all living microorganisms |
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| Apparatus used to sterilize articles by steam under pressure |
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| Condition of being self-governed; to function independently |
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| Condition of ill health, malnutrition, and wasting; can occur in chronic diseases such as cancer and pulmonary tuberculosis |
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| Having 100 steps or degrees, as the Celsius temperature scale |
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| Unit of measurement in the metric system; one hundredth of a meter |
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| Device used in a laboratory to separate solids from liquids |
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| Treatment using chemical agents |
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| Determination of the cause and nature of a disease |
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| To carry through sweat glands; profuse sweating |
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| Pertaining to a different formation |
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| Unit of weight in the metric system; 1000 g |
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| Pertaining to objects large enough to be examined by the naked eye |
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| Process of being badly shaped, deformed |
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| Unit of weight in the metric system; 0.001 mg |
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| Small living organism not visible to the naked eye |
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| Instrument used to view small objects |
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| Unit of weight in the metric system; 0.001 g |
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| Unit of volume in the metric system; 0.001 L |
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| Condition of tissue death |
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| Surgical puncture of a body cavity for fluid removal |
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| Literally means condition of foreknowledge; prediction of the course of a disease and the recovery rate |
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| Pertaining to the production of heat; a fever |
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| Study of radioactive substances |
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| Combination of signs and symptoms occurring together that characterize a specific disease |
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| Instrument used to measure degree of heat |
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| Sorting and classifying of injuries to determine priority of need and treatment |
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| Process of scraping away from a surface, such as skin or teeth, by friction; may be the result of trauma |
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| To induce a loss of feeling or sensation with the administration of an anesthetic |
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| Pertaining to a state of alertness |
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| Unequal in size or shape; without proportion of the body or parts of the body; different in placement or arrangement about an axis |
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| Literally means without contraction of the heart; a life-threatening cardiac condition characterized by the absence of electrical and mechanical activity in the heart |
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| Pertaining to a state of deep sleep (coma) |
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| Difficult articulation of speech resulting from interference in the control over the muscles of speech, usually caused by damage to a central or peripheral motor nerve |
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| Structure that covers the internal and external organs of the body and the lining of vessels, body cavities, glands, and organs; layer of cells forming the outermost layer of the skin and the surface layer of mucous and serous membranes |
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| Pertaining to originating outside the body or an organ of the body or produced from external causes, such as a disease caused by a bacterial or viral agent foreign to the body |
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| Pertaining to a feeling of “greatness”; refers in psychiatry to a person’s unrealistic and exaggerated concept of self-worth, importance, wealth, and ability |
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| Literally means excessive nourishment; the increase in the size of an organ, structure, or the body caused by an increase in the size of the cells rather than the number of cells; also called overgrowth |
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| Process whereby a pathogenic microorganism invades the body, reproduces, multiplies, and causes disease |
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| Pertaining to not being regular |
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| Pertaining to the nose and lip |
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| To use the hands or fingers to examine by touch; to feel |
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| Literally means resembling a solid substance; applies to any one of a large group of substances chemically related to sterols |
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| Physical injury or wound caused by external force, violence, or a toxic substance; also refers to psychological injury resulting from a severe emotional shock, which can cause disordered feelings and/or behavior |
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| Generally refers to the expected resiliency of the skin caused by the outward pressure of the cells and interstitial fluid |
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| Pertaining to without fever |
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| Pertaining to without jaundice (yellowish discoloration of the skin, whites of the eyes, mucous membranes, and body fluids) |
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| To stop, inhibit, restrain; a condition of being stopped, such as occurs in cardiac arrest when cardiac output and effective circulation stop |
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| Having two forks or two branches or two divisions; forked |
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| Pertaining to separating into two branches or composed of two elements |
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| Process in psychology of being able to bring to the center one thought and focus on it, while excluding other thoughts |
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| Failure of a system; in cardiology_failure of the heart to maintain adequate circulation; in psychology_failure of the defense mechanism system that may occur during a relapsing of a mental condition |
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| Literally means to remove the kernel of; used to describe the removal of the eyeball surgically or to remove a cataract surgically; also means to remove a part or a mass in its entirety |
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| Pertaining to outside the eye, as used in describing the extraocular eye muscles that control eye movement and eye coordination |
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| Nature or quality of excessive activity; can refer to the entire organism or to a particular entity such as the thyroid, heart, or muscles; also describes an individual who exhibits constant overactivity |
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| Underdevelopment of a tissue, organ, or body |
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| Condition of not being able to sleep |
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| Pertaining to situated between two bodies or occurring between two periods of time |
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| Lying hidden; quiet; not active |
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| Space within an artery, vein, intestine, or tube; also the hollow core of a hypodermic needle, which forms an oval-shaped opening when exposed at the beveled (flat, slanted surface) point |
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| Pertaining to or arising from many locations |
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| Process of closing or state of being closed of a passage |
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| Pertaining to beside the sternum (breastbone) |
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| Pertaining to the pericardium (sac surrounding the heart) |
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| Pertaining to having more than the normal number of fingers and toes |
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| Pertaining to the time before the discharge of the menses |
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| Literally means to act again; to respond to stimuli; to participate in a chemical reaction |
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| Process of a backward flow of solids or foods from the stomach to the mouth or the backflow of blood through a defective heart valve |
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| Any objective evidence of an illness or disordered function of the body that can be seen, heard, measured, or felt by the examiner |
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| Literally means below sharp; describes a state between acute and chronic with some acute features; used to describe the course of a disease process or the healing process following tissue injury |
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| New infection caused by a different organism from one that caused the initial infection; can occur from a harmful effect of an antibiotic, when there is an overgrowth of a resistant strain of bacteria, fungi, or yeast |
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| Any perceptible change in the function of the body that indicates disease; can be classified as objective (signs), subjective (symptoms described by the patient), and cardinal (vital signs: temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure) |
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| Pertaining to not being aware; lacking awareness of one’s environment |
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| Pertaining to fatty tissue throughout the body |
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| Literally means to cut up or to cut apart; study of the structure of an organism such as humans |
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| Microscopic body that carries the genes that determine hereditary characteristics |
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| Pertaining to the cranium (the portion of the skull that contains the brain) |
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| To remove water; to lose or be deprived of water from the body; to become dry |
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| Process in which parts of a substance move from areas of high concentration to areas of lower concentration |
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| Slender physical body form marked by predominance of tissue derived from the ectoderm (the outer layer of cells in the developing embryo) |
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| Round physical body form marked by predominance of tissue derived from the endoderm (the inner layer of cells in the developing embryo) |
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| State of equilibrium maintained in the body's internal environment |
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| Formation of a cell's nucleus |
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| Well-proportioned body form marked by predominance of tissue derived from the mesoderm (the middle layer of cells in the developing embryo) |
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| Process of pouring through |
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| Study of the nature of living organisms |
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| Essential matter of a living cell |
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| Pertaining to stimulation of body growth |
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| Pertaining to a place, definite locale |
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| Pertaining to body organs enclosed within a cavity, especially abdominal organs |
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| Inflammation of the skin caused by exposure to radiant energy, such as x-rays, ultraviolet light, and sunlight |
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| Absence of pigment in the skin, hair, and eyes |
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| Condition in which there is a lack or complete absence of sweating |
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| Graft taken from one part of the patient's body and transferred to another part |
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| Intense burning pain associated with trophic skin changes in the hand or foot after trauma to the part |
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| Technique of using subfreezing temperature (usually with liquid nitrogen) to produce well-demarcated areas of cell injury and destruction |
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| Surgical procedure to remove acne scars, nevi, tattoos, or fine wrinkles on the skin by using sandpaper, wire brushes, or other abrasive materials on an anesthetized epidermis |
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| Physician who specializes in the study of the skin |
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| Instrument used to cut the skin for grafting |
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| Skin condition caused by a fungus |
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| Condition in which the blood seeps into the skin causing discolorations ranging from blue-black to greenish-yellow |
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| Abnormal redness of the skin occurring over widespread areas of the body |
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| Abrasion of the epidermis by scratching, trauma, chemicals, burns, etc. |
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| Literally means an eating sore; necrosis, or death, of tissue or bone that usually results from a deficient or absent blood supply to the area |
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| Inflammation of the sweat glands |
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| Condition of excessive sweating |
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| Pertaining to under the skin or inserted under the skin, as a hypodermic injection |
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| Pertaining to within the skin, as an intradermal injection |
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| Overgrowth of scar tissue caused by excessive collagen formation |
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| Localized loss of pigmentation of the skin |
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| Cancerous tumor that has black pigmentation |
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| Malignant black mole or tumor |
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| Infectious condition of the marginal structures around the nail |
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| Condition of infestation with lice |
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| Plastic surgery for the removal of wrinkles |
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| Chronic condition with hardening of the skin and other connective tissues of the body |
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| Excessive flow of oil from the sebaceous glands |
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| Condition of dry skin and localized scaling caused by excessive exposure to the sun occurring in older people |
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| Malignant tumor of squamous epithelial tissue |
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| Pertaining to below the skin, as a subcutaneous injection |
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| Pertaining to below the nail |
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| Inability to distinguish between the sensations of heat and cold |
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| Fungus condition of the hair |
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