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| A member of the christian movement(the watchtower bible and tract society)founded in the US by charles Taze Russell. Jehovah's witnesses deny many traditional christian doctrines (including the divinity of christ) and refuse military service and blood transfusions on religious grounds. |
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| branchof medicine concerned with the study,diagnosis,treatment and prevention of diseases related to blood. |
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| a specialist in the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the lungs |
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| A cardiologist is a doctor with special training and skill in finding, treating and preventing diseases of the heart and blood vessels. |
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| the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms. |
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| a weakness of the heart that leads to a buildup of fluid in the lungs and surrounding body tissues. |
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| A pleural effusion is a buildup of fluid in the pleural space, an area between the layers of tissue that line the lungs and the chest cavity. It may also be referred to as effusion or pulmonary effusion. The type of fluid that forms a pleural effusion may be categorized as either transudate or exudate. |
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| done by, or obtained by ophthalmoscopic examination of the fundus of the eye. |
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| lung inflammation caused by bacterial or viral infection, in which the air sacs fill with pus and may become solid. Innflamtion may affect both lungs(double pneumonia) one lung (single pneumonia)or only certain lobes (lobar pneumonia) |
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| a condition marked by a deficiency of red blood cells or of hemoglobin in the blood, resulting in pallor and weariness. |
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| the process of transferring the blood of a person into the veins of another. |
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| An electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) is a test that checks for problems with the electrical activity of your heart. An EKG shows the heart's electrical activity as line tracings on paper. The spikes and dips in the tracings are called waves. The heart is a muscular pump made up of four chambers . |
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| an acutely disturbed state of mind that occurs in fever, intoxication, and other disorders and is characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence of thought and speech. |
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| a chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning. |
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| Ischemic cardiomyopathy is a type of cardiomyopathy caused by a narrowing of the coronary arteries which supply blood to the heart. |
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| an abnormally high body temperature, usually accompanied by shivering, headache, and in severe instances, delirium. |
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| difficult or labored breathing. |
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| Wafer-type dressings that contain hydroactive particles which, when in contact with wound exudate, form a fluid/gel environment over the wound bed. They can be self-adhering with a surface that repells water, bacteria and other outside contaminants. They are considered occlusive or semi-occlusive. |
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| The mediastinum is the part of the chest that lies between the sternum and the spinal column, and between the lungs. This area contains the heart, large blood vessels, windpipe (trachea), thymus gland, esophagus, and connective tissues. |
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| having or relating to two sides; affecting both sides. |
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