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| Respiratory and homatopoietic adjustments made via adaptive responses within the body to accommodate for long term exposure to changes in sea level. |
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| Process by which cilliary muscles alter the shape of the lens of the eye to allow focusing of incoming light rays on the retina |
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| "failure to relax"; Absense of peristalsis of the esophagus and high gastroesophogeal sphincter pressure resulting in dilation and loss of tone in the esophagus |
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| A genetic bone disorder of bone growth resulting from abnormal conversion of cartilage to bone. Usually results in Dwarfism. |
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| Loss or impairment of the sense of taste |
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| Morbid fear of being touched by a finger or any slender pointed thing |
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| Morbid fear or aversion to cats |
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| Loss of the ability to read |
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| Synthesis of larger molecules from smaller ones |
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| A decreased reaction to skin sensitivity tests |
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| The act of inhaling or drawing something into the lungs or respiratory passages |
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| Absence of contractions of the heart |
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| Inability to form connected sentences |
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| The incidence of increased allergic reactions as a result of hereditary disposition |
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| Listening to the sounds made by various body structures as a diagnostic method |
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| Chemicals that exert their effects on the same cells that secrete them |
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| Inflammation of the margins of the eyelids |
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| Hyperactive, high-pitched, tinkling,rushing or growling bowl sounds. |
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| Slowness of heartbeat; usually <60beats per minute |
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| A harsh,intermittent, especially abnormal, auscultatory sound |
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| Physical wasting with loss of weight and muscle mass due to disease. |
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| Breakdown of larger molecules into smaller ones |
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| Drugs that promote defecation |
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| Abnormal breathing pattern sometimes seen just before death ("death-rattle") |
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| Inflammation of the gallbladder |
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| Brain injury that occurs on the opposite side of the brain from the site of impact. |
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| Brain injury that occurs at the site of trauma |
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| The destruction of red blood cells |
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| Cerebrovascular accident or stroke is a disruption of blood flow to a portion of the brain due to either hemorrhage or blood clot, can cause permanent brain injury |
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| The crossing of nerve fibers carry sensation from one side of the body over to be processed on the contralateral side of the brain |
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| The act or sense of taste |
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| Passage of blood or any of it's formed elements through the intact walls of blood vessels |
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| Excretion of urine; usually used to denote large quantities produced |
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| Used to describe a general diseased state of blood, usually secondary to abnormal material present. |
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| Difficult or labored breathing, often referred to as "air hunger" |
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| Impairment of muscle tone |
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| Inflammation of the brain, most often but not always, due to a viral or bacterial infection |
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| Opening of artery and removal of obstructing plaque |
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| A thin plastic tube threaded into the trachea through the nose or mouth used to deliver oxygen to patients who are breathing inadequately, in a coma, or under anesthesia |
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| Surgical removal of an eyeball |
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| A disorder in which irregular electrical signals are suddenly discharged from neurons, causing the body to become overloaded with impluses resulting in a seizure. |
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| An abnormal redness of the skin |
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| In burn patients, refers to the burned, dead tissue. |
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| Anteriorly bulging eyeballs; Sometimes seen in hyperthyroidism |
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| The leaking of chemotherapeutic agents into surrounding tissue during IV administration |
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| Membrane underneath your tongue, that prevents you from swallowing your tongue |
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| The writing of long lists of meaningless words |
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| Patches of discolored skin caused by benign tumors of the blood capillaries; Birthmarks |
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| bloody or maroon colored stool |
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| Weakness or loss of motion on one side of the body |
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| Excessive or undesirable hairiness in areas that are not usually hairy, especially in women and children. |
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| Excess CSF in the brain due to trauma, birth defects, tumors, etc. |
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| High CO2 levels in the blood |
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| An abnormal acuteness to sensation |
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| Excessive cell proliferation |
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| Increased ventilation in response to metabolic needs |
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| A condition in which affected individuals sleep as much as 15 hours daily. |
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| An increase in the rate and depth of breathing that exceeds the body's need to remove CO2 |
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| Low CO2 levels in the blood |
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| Surgical removal of the pituitary gland |
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| The supply of nerve fibers functionally connected to a certain body part |
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| The process by which the nervous system processes and interprets sensory input and makes decisions about what should be done at each moment |
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| White ,precancerous lesion that develops on the tongue or the inside of the cheek in response to chronic inflammation. |
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| Smallness of the auricle or pinna (small ears) |
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| describes a specific form of cutaneous and dermal edema secondary to increased deposition of connective tissue components in subcutaneous tissue as seen in various forms of hypothyroidism. |
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| Inflammation in bone tissue |
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| Act locally, but affect cell types other then the ones that released them |
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| Venotomy; incision into a vein for the purpose of drawing blood. |
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| Process by which the eye detects light |
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| A ruddy(dark,flushed) color of the face,hands,feet, ears and mucous membranes resulting from the engorgement or distention of blood vessels |
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| Cells who's daughter cells can give rise to a specific group of cells but not all types of cells |
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| Sagging or drooping or a structure inferiorly, usually associated with a drooping or lazy eye as seen in Myasthenia Gravis |
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| An infection of the pulp of a tooth; treatment may involve a root canal procedure |
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| Vision in low light or "night vision" |
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| A serious and dangerous medical condition that is characterized by a whole-body inflammatory state (called a systemic inflammatory response syndrome or SIRS); A large scale and uncontrolled inflammatory response. |
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| A stoppage of any secretions or excretions |
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| Accumulation of effects, especially those of muscular, sensory or mental stimuli |
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| Rapid beating of heart; usually >100beats per minute |
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| The terminal branches of an axon |
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| Transient Ischemic Accidents or mini strokes are series of minor disruptions or interruptions of blood flow to the brain |
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| The ability of a solution to change the shape or the tone of a cell by altering their internal water volume. |
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| A cell that can give rise to every cell type. |
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| "Staircase effect"; A graded muscle response, which occurs after a muscle has been resting for a prolonged period of time. The first few contraction in a stimulus show a successive increase in amplitude. |
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| Puncture of the tympanic membrane by a needle in order to aspirate middle ear fluid |
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| Cutting or severing of the vagus nerve to decrease secretion of gastric juice in those with peptic ulcers that do not respond to medication |
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| Chemicals causing tissue damage on contact |
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| Stout protective guard hairs in the nostrils and ear canals that prevent foreign particles from entering easily |
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| ZOLLINGER-ELLISON SYNDROME |
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| Peptic ulcer disease casued by a gastrinoma, or gastrin secreting tumor of the pancreas,stomach or intestines |
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