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| advanced hypothyroidism in adults characterized by sluggishness, slow pulse, puffiness in hands and face and dry skin. |
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| regulates calcitonin and parathyroid hormone |
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| suffix for necromania means what |
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| a compulsion or obsession |
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| fuction of the temporal lobe |
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| resonsible for hearing, taste and smell |
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| term for excessive thirst |
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| term for sugar in the urine |
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| help maintain the shape of the eye and normal function |
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| function of the macula lutea |
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| a minute yellowish area containing the fora centralis located near the center of the retina of the eye at which visual perception is most acute |
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| a condition of stunted body growth and impaired mental development |
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| hormone the adrenal cortex secretes |
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| corticoseroid: hydrocortisone, corticosterone, aldosterone, and androgenic |
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| characteristics of cushing syndrome |
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| upper body obesity and facial puffiness with a moon sheped appearnce |
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| a drug causing dilation of the pupils |
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| part of the eye that respondes to the bright light |
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| Main control center for the brain |
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| combinging form for join together |
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| typer of refractive errors in the eye |
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| when one eye is mo re nearsighted(myopis) farsighted(hyperopia) or astigmatic (vision blurred) that the other |
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| combining form meaning cornea |
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| chracteristics of the optic disk |
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| exit site of retinal nerve fibers as well as entrance point for retinal arteries and exit point for retinal veins |
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| medical term for pink eye |
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| introduction of a medicated solution into the external canal, usually administered by drop (gt) or drops (gtt) in the affected ears |
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| jelly like mass filling the inner chamber between the lens and retina that gives bulk to the eye |
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| tears or the lacrimal apparatus of the eye |
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| inflammation of the middle ear |
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| suffix for hearing condition |
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| process of measuring hearing |
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| how does a hearing aid function |
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| an external amplifying device designed to improve hearing by more effective collection of sound into the ear |
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| vein graft of a scarred tympanic membrane to improve sound conduction |
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| part of the ear that maintians air pressure |
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| anohter name for the eardrum |
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| healh professional who specializees in the study of hearing impairments |
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| memebrane that covers the opening between the middle ear and inner ear |
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| first of the three ossicles |
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