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| Pupils Equal, React To Light |
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| Uncomfortable abnormal awareness of breathing |
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| Cardiomyopathy is disease in which the heart muscle becomes weakened, stretched, or has another structural problem. It often occurs when the heart cannot pump or function well. Ischemic cardiomyopathy is caused by a narrowing of the arteries that supply the heart with blood. It makes the heart walls thin so they do not pump well. |
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generally used to treat conditions
such as depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar
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| A group of problems that occur in a newborn who was exposed to addictive opiate drugs while in the mother’s womb |
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| Right Atrial Pressure, the blood pressure in the right atrium of the heart. RAP reflects the amount of blood returning to the heart and the ability of the heart to pump the blood into the arterial system |
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| A disturbance of consciousness that is accompanied by a change in cognition that cannot be better accounted for by a pre-existing or evolving dementia |
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| A buildup of fluid between the layers of tissue that line the lungs and chest cavity |
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| The examination of the ocular fundus to assess retinal manifestations of hypertension, DM, retinal detachment, melanoma, and sundry ilk. |
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| Abbreviation for per os. (by mouth.) |
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| a specialist in hematology (the branch of medical science dealing with the blood and blood-forming tissues, including morphology, physiology, and pathology) |
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| an individual skilled in pulmonology (the branch of medicine that deals with diseases of the respiratory system.) |
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| the record produced by electrocardiography; a tracing representing the heart's electrical action derived by amplification of the minutely small electrical impulses normally generated by the heart. |
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| pertaining to the foot or feet. |
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| a normal constituent of gastric juice in humans and other animals. The absence of free hydrochloric acid in the stomach, called achlorhydria or gastric anacidity, may be found with chronic gastritis, gastric carcinoma, pernicious anemia, pellagra, and alcoholism. |
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