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| a physician who specializes in diagnosing and treating diseases of blood. |
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| a physician who specializes in treating heart disorders. |
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| a physician who specializes in the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the lungs. |
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| 1. the nature of a disease; the identification of an illness. 2. a conclusion or decision reached by diagnosis. 3. the identification of any problem. |
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| of, done by, or obtained by an ophthamoscopic examination of the fundus of the eye |
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| inflammation of one or both lungs, with dense areas of lung inflammation. Frequently but not always due to infection. |
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| the condition of having a lower than normal number of red blood cells or quantity of hemoglobin. Anemia diminishes the capacity of the blood to carry oxygen. |
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| excess fluid between the two membranes that cover the lungs (the visceral and parietal pleurae) separating the lungs from the chest wall. A small quantity of fluid is normally spread thinly over the visceral and parietal pleurae and acts as a lubricant between the two membranes. Any significant increase in the quantity of pleural fluid is a pleural effusion. |
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| the transfer of blood or blood components from one person (the donor) into the bloodstream of another person (the recipient). |
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| the electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) is a diagnostic tool that is routinely used to assess the electrical and muscular functions of the heart. |
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| a commonly used abbreviation in medicine that stands for complete blood count, a set values of the cellular (formed elements) of blood. |
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| (activities of daily living) the things we normally do in daily living including any daily activity we perform for self-care such as feeding ourselves, bathing, dressing, grooming, work, homemaking and leisure. |
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| a sudden state of severe confusion and rapid changes in brain function, sometimes associated with hallucinations and hyperactivity, during which the patient in inaccessible to normal conduct. |
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| significant loss of intellectual abilities, such as memory capacity, that is severe enough to interfere with social or occupational functioning. |
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| any medication capable of affecting the mind, emotions and behavior. from the Greek- psycho- the mind + trop- a turning= (capable of) turning the mind. |
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| disease of the heart muscle (myocardium) |
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