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| being mentally alert and having awareness of surroundings. |
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| a disorder which causes seizures. |
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| a women whose physical, emotional, or romantic attraction is for other women. |
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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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| TIA-Transient Ischemic Attack |
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| is a warning sign of CVA, result of temporary lack of blood supply to the brain. |
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| a person whose gender identity does not fit into the category of man or woman, the persons gender may be in between those two categories or may be entirely different from them. |
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| do not eat any animals or animal products. |
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| CPR-Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation |
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| medical procedures used when a persons lungs or heart have stopped working. |
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| is the act of 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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| babies born more than 3 weeks before the due date. |
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| when something is blocking the tube through which air enters the lungs. |
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| which involves social interaction, emotions, intellect and spirituality. |
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| a term used to describe sexual orientation that is not exclusively heterosexual. |
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| SIDS- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome |
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| a condition in which babies stop breathing and die for no known reason while sleeping. |
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| a method of attempting to remove an object from the airway of someone who is choking. |
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| means caring for the whole person, the mind as well as the body. |
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| a person whose gender identity differs from the sex assigned at birth due to anatomy. |
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| related to thinking and learning. |
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| occurs when organs and tissues in the body do not receive an adequate blood supply. |
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| means 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, such as changing names and or sex. |
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| an infectious disease causing a mild fever and a rash of itchy inflamed blisters. |
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| or heart attack- occurs when the heart muscle does not receive enough oxygen due to blocked blood vessels. |
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| a persons physical emotional and romantic attraction to another person. |
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| means of, or relating to the spirit, or the soul. |
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| is a form of cancer. reduces the white blood cells ability to fight disease. |
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| difficult or labored breathing. |
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| a deeply felt sense of ones gender. |
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| Proper conduct and wisdom release a person from desire, suffering and a repeating sequence of births and deaths. |
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| an eating disorder in which a person does not eat or works out excessively to lose weight. |
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| also known as fainting occurs when the blood is not receiving proper blood flow |
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| a person whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction may be for people of the same gender or a different gender. |
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| the result of actions in past lives and actions in this live that can determine ones destiny in future lives. |
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| binges by eating large amounts of food and then purges. |
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| a sudden drop in blood pressure that occurs when a person stands or sits up. |
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| a person whose gender identity matches the persons birth sex. |
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| a small skullcap worn by someone of jewish faith. |
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| severe injury to the head. |
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| the medical term for a nosebleed. |
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| a continual process of revealing ones sexual orientation or gender identity to others. |
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| believe that they do not know, or cannot know whether god exists. |
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| the branch of medicine that deals with the treatment, diagnosis and prevention of disease in older and elderly adults. |
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| results from too much insulin or too little food. |
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| typically refers to a straight man who sometimes wears clothing and other items associated with women. |
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| people who believe that there is no god. |
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| the study of the aging process in people from midlife through old age |
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| results from too much insulin or too little food. |
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| a person whose physical, emotional, and or romantic attraction is for people of the same sex. |
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| rules about what an when patients can eat. |
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| prejudice towards, stereotyping of and/or discrimination of older persons or the elderly. |
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| DKA-Diabetic Ketoacidosis |
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| caused by having too little insulin in the body. |
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| a person whose physical, emotional, and romantic attraction is for people of the opposite sex. |
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| means not eating food or eating very little food. |
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| Developmental Disabilities |
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| are disabilities that are present at birth or emerge during childhood up to age 22. |
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