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| Hearing, seeing, or feeling things that do not exist |
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| A quantitative method of characterizing and recognizing various tissue types, beyond what is visually possible from source images |
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| Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) |
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| Federal law enacted by the Department of Health and Human Services marking the first comprehensive federal protection for the privacy of health information |
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| The inability of the heart muscle to pump blood. Leads to fluid accumulation in the lungs, which makes breathing difficult and causes swelling of the legs, feet, liver, and other internal organs. Also known as congestive heart failure. |
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| The percentage of the volume of a blood sample that contains erythrocytes |
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| A localized mass of extravasated blood because of trauma. Usually clotted in an organ, space, or tissue |
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| Paralysis of one side of the body |
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| A procedure to remove waste or other toxic substances from the blood that cannot be eliminated by the kidney |
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| Oxygen-carrying substance of the red blood cells |
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| Destruction of red blood cells |
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| Stopping the flow of blood |
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| An instrument or clamp used to stop bleeding |
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| A collection of blood in the pleural cavity |
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| A round drain with springs inside that must be compressed to establish proper suction |
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| A severe infectious liver virus. Classifications include hepatitis A, B, C |
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| Protrusion of an organ or part of an organ through the muscular wall |
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| A group of things arranged in order of rank, grade, or class |
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| A malignant disease characterized by swelling of the lymph glands |
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| The maintenance of constant sonditions in the internal enviroment. Enviroment of the body tends to return to normal whenever it is disturbed |
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| Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) |
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| A combination of estrogen and progestin therapy used for relief on menopausl symptoms. Patients taking these drugs may present with increased endometrial thickening |
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| A colliod gel in which water is the dispersion medium; super apsorbent (they can contain more than 90% water) natural or synthetic polymers. Most common uses int eh health care enviroment are in disposable diapers to "capture" urine and in dressing for healing of burn or other hard-to-heal wounds |
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| The use of water in treating disease |
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| An excess of blood in any part of the body |
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| Excess sugar in the blood |
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| An abnormal increase in the number of normal cells in a tissue or organ |
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| A persistently high arterial blood pressure |
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| An increase in the size of an organ or part because of an increasein the size of its constituent cells |
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| An abnormal increase in the circulating blood volume |
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| Underdevelopment of tissue or an organ usually caused by a decrease in the numb er of cells |
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| Shock caused by a reduction in the volume of blood, ar from hemorrage |
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| Surgical removal of a part or all of the stomach |
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| Feding by means of a stomach tube |
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| An agent that kills germs |
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| A powerful solution used to disinfect transducers. Also known by such trade names as Cidex and Metrex |
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| Enlargement of the thyroid glad |
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| Small, fleshy, beadlike protuberances cinsisting of outgrowths of new capillaries on the surface of a wound that is healing. Also known as granulation tissue |
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| A series of shades from white to black. The more shades or levels of gray, the more realistically an image can be recorded and displayed, especially a scanned photo |
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| Intense emotional suffering usually caused by loss |
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| Medical specialty that deals with the reproductive system of the nongravid female |
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| A sheet of fibrous tissue that covers mouscles and certain other organs |
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| Excrement from the bowels bowels |
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| Abnoramal condition of the fetus characterized by irregular heart rhythm and meconium (fetal bowel movement) that discolors amniotic fluid. Turning the mother onto her side and administering oxygen often helps, but early delivery sometimes is necessary |
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| A type of cardiac arrhythmia |
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| The formation of fibrous tissue, usually as a reparative process |
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| The process by which water and dissolved substances are pushed through a permeable membrane from areas of high pressure to areas of lower pressure |
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| Abnormal channel between two organs or internal organ and the skin. A deep ulcer or abnoraml passage often leading from a hollow organ to the body surface. Sometimes caused by congenital malformation or complications of surgery or childbirth |
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| Gass or air in the stoamch or intestines |
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| Decreasing of the angle at a joint (e.g., the bending of the elbow) |
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| Equipment designed solely for the use of people who are chronic invalids or have a physical disability. Pressure pads and other flotation pads are specially designed for the care and prevention of bed sores |
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| Fluid Volume Deficit (FVD) |
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| The condition that results from excessive loss of water from a living organism |
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| A condition that results in excessive accumulation of fluid (e.g., polyhydramnios, ascites, edema) |
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| An x-ray machine used to allow visual examination of internal organs and to observe the movement and contour of the organs |
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| A tube used for continuous drainage of urine |
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| A shallow or hollow place in a bone |
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| A portable bedpan designed for users who are immobalized (e.g., because of fractures or hip operations). it is smaller and more compact than a standard bedpan and thus easier to postion under this type of patient |
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| A plane that divides the body into front and back portions |
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| A bruise; a discoloration of the skin caused by the extravastion of blood |
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| Sonographic examination of the heart |
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| Swelling caused by fluid retnetion; accumulation of abnormally large amounts of fluid in the interstitial spaces |
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| Escape of fluid into a space, such as the Pleural cavity |
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| Not urgent. Elective surgery can be scheduled at the patient's convenience |
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| Electric Infusion Devices (EIDs) |
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| Electronic infusion pumps are designed to ensure accurate adminsitration of intravenous fluid volume (which may contain drugs) over a given period of time. Such devices, which include syringe drivers, are known as volumetric pumps, because they control and monitor volume, rather than drops per minute. THe IVAC model is an example of a volumetric pump that is in common use |
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| A graphic recording of the electrical current produced by the contraction of the heart |
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| A graphic recording of the electrical currents produced by brain action |
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| A solution, sucha as a salt solution, that can conduct electricity |
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| A mass of undissolved material traveling in the blood; it may be solid, liquid, or gaseous |
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| The fetus before the end of the eigth week of conception |
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| Sharing another's emotion |
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| A chronic lung disease usually characterized by greatly distended alveoli |
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| Pus in the pleural cavity |
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| Originating within the body |
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| An instrument used to inspect the interior of a body cavity |
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| Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatopraphy (ERCP) |
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| An endoscopic x-ray procedure that permits visualization and biopsy of the biliary and pancreatic tissues |
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| A tube inserted into the trachea to provide a passageway for air. Also called a tracheal tube |
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| Endovaginal Sonography (EVS) |
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| Also known as transvaginal sonography (TVS). EVS is an intracavitary ultrasound imaging technique that employs the insertion of a specialized transducer into the vaginal cavity |
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| Feeding by way of or within the small intestine |
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| To provide with an opening, usually by surgical means |
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| A protein that acts as a catalyst in biochemical reactions |
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| Study of the occurance of a disease within a population |
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| The science of work. Ergonomics removes barriers to quality, productivuty, and safe human performance by fitting products, tasks, and enviroments to people |
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| An unusual redness of the skin |
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| Visual examination of the esophagus |
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| The process of arriving at concrete judgements in situations in which action must be taken despite uncertainty |
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| Systems of valued behaviors and beliefs that govern proper conduct to ensure protection of an individual's rights |
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| Study of the cause of a disease or condition |
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| Turning out or inside out |
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| Protusion of internal organs through a wound |
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| An increase in the severity or or intensity of a disease and any of the symptoms |
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| An area where skin has been scraped away or chafed |
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| Originating outside the body |
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| The increasing or straightening of the angle at a point |
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| A premature contraction of the heart; a type of cardiac arrhythmia |
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| An abnormality in flow that allows liquids (usually blood or IV fluid) to flow from a normal vessel into the surrounding body tissues |
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| A substance thrown out, such as pus or serous fluid |
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| A patient care technique that allows patients to sit on the edge of the bed and let their legs dangle loosely as a prelude to getting up and out of bed |
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| To remove foriegn material and contaminated or devitalized tissue by sharo dissection |
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| Any communication that holds a person up to contempt, hatred, ridicule, or scorn and mars his or her reputation |
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| Elimination of wastes from the intestine |
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| To deprive of human qualities or attributes such as pity, kindness, and individuality |
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| Loss of mental powers resulting from organic disease |
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| The study of duty, moral obligation, and right action. Dentologists believe that one's duty is more important than bringing about good consequences; it is the motive or principle that determines right or wrong. one should do one's duty regardless of the consequences |
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| The lowest area; hanging down (e.g.; turning patients with a gallbladder problems onto their right side so that any gallstones will layer to the dependent area) |
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| A disease caused by a deficiency of antidiuretic hormone (ADH) |
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| A metabolic disease in which carbohydrates are poorly oxidized |
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| Diagnosis-related Groups (DRGs) |
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| A classification of hospital case types into groups expected to have similar hospital resource use. The groupings are based on diagnoses (using International Classifictaion od Disease [ICD] of the World Health Organization), procedures, age, sex, and the prescence of complications or comorbidities |
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| Cleansing the blood by artificial means when kidneys have failed. Hemodialysis filters blood throught a machine; peritoneal dialysis uses the peritoneal membrane that lines the abdomen to filter impurities |
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| The relaxation of the heart between contractions. The dialation or enlargement of an opening or a Hollow organ or tube |
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| Used or intended for teaching |
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| Image processing device that uses a stable electronic circuit to store and manipulate ultrasonic images in memory. The device than reconstructs and displays these images simultaneously to create one single image |
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| An agent that kills some pathogens |
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| Farther from the body or from the origin of a part |
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| Increased urine production |
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| A drug used to cause diuresis |
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| A potent cardiac stimulant used oin stress echocardiography |
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| Change in the observed frequency of a wave, occuring when the source and observer are in motion relative to each other. Frequency increases as the soure and observer approach each other and decreases as they move apart. Any source motion causes a real shift in wave frequencies, whereas the observer motion produces only an apparent shift in frequency |
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| The posterior aspect or back of the body or organ |
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| Flexion or bending of the foot toward the leg |
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| An exra (short) sheet placed int eh middle of the bed and under patients who cannot move on their own. A patient can be rolled or moved from one area of the bed to another by two people on either side of the bed, using the drawsheet like a sling to move the patient |
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| Disturbed or abnormal function of an organ |
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| Abnormal change or growth; alteration in size, shape, and organization of differentiated cells |
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| Any disturbance in normal rhythm |
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| Faulty or defective nutrition |
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| Painful or difficult urination |
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