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| Any abnormal disease/condition |
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| weakness/lack of strength |
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| surgical puncture to remove fluid |
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| The process of producing a picture or record. |
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| blood, loss of large amount of blood in short amount of time |
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| Any abnormal condition/disease |
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| Any abnormal condition/disease |
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| Surgical creation of an artifical opening |
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| bleeding, excessive discharge |
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| bleeding, excessive discharge |
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| Puncturing of the abdomen to remove fluid |
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| describing a condition with a rapid onset, severe course, and relatively short duration |
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| toward, in the direction of |
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| Abnormal softening of a gland |
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| abnormalhardening of a gland |
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| A malignant tumor that starts in a gland |
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| A change in the structure of cells. |
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| Medical test in which dye is inserted into the blood. |
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| Congential absence of an organ or tissue |
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| visual examination of the internal structure of a joint |
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| Abnormal hardening of the artery walls. |
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| Surgical suturing (fusion) of two bones to stiffen a joint |
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| inability to coordinate muscle movement |
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| Plaque, or fatty substance |
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| lacking normal muscle tone |
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| Tissues that support and connect the organs and other body tissues |
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| permanent tightening of skin, muscles, tendons, ligaments when normal elastic tissues are replaced with fibrous tissues |
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| malformation of the skull due to premature closings of cranial bones |
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| Through, between, apart, complete |
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| identification of a disease of injury |
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| Discharge through the digestive tract |
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| Bends the foot upward at the ankle |
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| refers to a body part or organ that is not working properly |
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| Inflammation of the muscles surronding the elbow (Tennis Elbow) |
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| Outer layer of tissue, covers the entire body (skin) |
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| is a disease/structure/operation/procedure named for the personwho discovered of described it first |
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| Normally functionig thyroid gland |
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| Unknown disorder where normal bone marrow is destroyed and replaced with fibrous tissue |
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| crack like sore of the skin |
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| abnormal passage, often between two internl organs of from an organ to body surface |
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| Disorder which no physiological or anatomical symptoms occur |
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| Inflamation of the entire digestive tract |
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| Root word for blood cells |
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| Pertaining to the formation of blood cells |
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| Studier of tissue diseases |
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| over/excessive or increased |
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| is the enlargement of an organ because of increase in cells |
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| Increased blood pressur (higher than normal) |
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| Increase in the bulk of a body part of organ due to increase in size of cells |
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| under/deficient/decreased |
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| incomplete developement of an organ |
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| unfavorable response to prescribed medical treatment (usually drugs) |
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| Illness with an unknown cause |
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| illness caused by living pathoenic organisms |
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| abnormal increase in outward curve (shoulders) |
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| Torn of jagged would or accidental cut |
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| pathologic change (abnormality) due to disease or injury |
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| Increase in foreward curvature (lumbar) |
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| Abnormal condition of the lumbar region |
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| fused double layer of the peritoneum that attachs parts of the intestine to the interiod abdominal wall |
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| tenderness/pain in the muscles |
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| chronic autoimmune disease that affects the neuromuscular junction and produces serious weakness |
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| disease or abnormality cause by fungus |
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| Herniation of muscle substance through a tear in the fascia |
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| Bone marrow or spinal cord |
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| Type of cancer that startsin the blood making cells |
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| pathology or disease of the spinal cord |
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| pathology/disease of the muscle |
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| Neuromuscular disorder characterized by slow relaxation of muscles after a voluntary contraction |
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| Root word for nervous system |
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| Inflamation of the nerves |
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| surgical repair of nerves |
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| disease acquired in the hospital |
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| Inflammation of the bones |
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| benign bony projection covered in cartilage |
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| Abnormal softening of the bones |
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| Death of bone tissue due to lack ofinsufficient blood |
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| outbreak of a disease occuring over a large population group or area |
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| outer layer of the peritoneum, lines the interior abdominal wall |
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| Multilayered membrane that protects and holds the organs in place |
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| Inflamation of the Peritoneum |
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| bends the foot downward at the ankle |
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| pertaining to before birth |
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| Prediction of probable outcome of a disorder |
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| turns the palm downward of backward |
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| acute pus-forming bacterial skin infection |
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| the temporary/partial/complete disapperance of the symptoms without having achieved a cure |
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| Congenital deffect where the spinal column doesn't completely close to protect the spinal cord |
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| Root word for spinal cord/vertebrae |
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| Turns the palm of the hand upward or forward |
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| Patient POV of part a disease |
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| A set of signs and symptoms that describe a disease |
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| Removal of the synovial membrane |
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| Root word for vascular system |
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| The inner layer of the peritoneum, surronds the organs |
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| root word for small instestine |
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| Inflammation of the bone marrow and adjacent bone |
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| a substance that produces an allergic reaction |
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| a systematic reaction that is a severe response to an allergen, also known as anaphyitic shock |
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| is any of a large group of diseases characterized by a condition in which the immune system produces antibodies against its own tissues |
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| Immunodeficiency Disorder |
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| occurs when the ummune response is compromised |
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| Is caused by a pathogen that does not normally produce an illness in healthy humans |
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| HIV- Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
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| virus which occurs as a bloodborne infection & damages or kills the cells of the immune system, causing immunity to progressively fail, thus leaving the body at risk of developing many life-threatening oppurtunstic infections |
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| Acquired Immunodefiency Syndrome (AIDS) |
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| The most advanced and fatal stage of an HIV infection |
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| A disease treatment that involves either stimulating or repressing the immune response |
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| a substance that prevents or reduces the body's normal immune response |
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| a medication that kills or damages cells |
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| disease-producing agent; a mircroorganism or virus that casues a disease in humans |
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| are one-celled prokaryotic microscopic organisms |
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| Rod shaped spore-forming bacteria |
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| Caused by the bacillus Clostridium tetani and is transmitted through a cut or wounds commonly known as lockjaw |
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| a small bacterium that lives in lice, fleas, ticks and mites. (Rocky Mountain spotted fever) |
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| Sprial-shaped bacteria that have flexible walls and are capable of movement (Lyme disease) |
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| caused by tickes, symptoms include: spreading red ring |
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| 70% get the bullseye (spreading ring, other 30% get cluster fuck (joint ache, fever, flu) |
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| Are a group of about 30 species of bacteria that form irregular groups or clusters that resemble grapes |
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| a plant or animal that lives on, or within, another living organism at the expense of that organism |
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| most commonly tranmitted from animals (pets) to humans by contact with contaminated feces. |
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| A disease caused by a protistan parasite that lives in certain mosquitoes and is transferred to humans by the bite of an infected mosquito |
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| Herpes Zoster (Varicella zoster) VZV (shingles) |
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| Is an scute viral infection characterized by painful skn eruptions that follow the underlying route of and inflamed nerve. |
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| Mono, caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), condition is characterized by fever, a sore throat, and enlarged lymph nodes |
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| German Measles (3 day measles), a viral infection characterized by a low-grade fever, swollen glands, inflamed eyes and a fine pink rash |
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| An acute viral infection that is most commonly transmitted to humans by the bite or saliva of an infected animal |
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| Chicken Pox, is caused by the herpes virus, and is highly contagious |
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| A member of the herpes virus family that causes a variety of diseases. |
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| Medication that is capable of inhibiting growth, or killing pathogenic bacterial microorganisms |
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| an agent that destorys or inhibits the growth of fungi, also known as Antimycotic |
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| The study of the prevention, causes, and treatment of tumors and cancer |
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| A benign tumor made up of muscle tissue |
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| A class of diseases characterized by malignant tumors that can metastasize (move beyond the original infected area) |
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| the prcess by which cancer spreads from one place to another |
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| stopping, steady, new cancer site |
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| A malignant tumor that occurs in the epithelial tissue |
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| a malignant tumor in its original position that has not yet disturbed or invaded the surrounding tissue. |
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| a malignant tumor that arises from connective tissues, including hard tissues, soft tissues, and liquid tissues. |
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| A malignant tumor usually involving the upper shaft of long bones, the pelvis, or knee |
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| A general term applied to malignancies affecting the lymphoid tissues |
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| distinguished from other lymphommas by the presence of large, cancerous lymphcytes known as Reed-Sternberg cells |
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| A term used to describe all lymphomas other than Hodgkin's lymphoma |
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| Breast cancer at its earliest stage before the cancer has broken through the wall of the milk duct |
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| Inflitrating ductal carcinoma |
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| Also known as invasive ductal carcinoma, starts in the milk duct, and breaks through the wall of that duct and invades the fatty breast tissue |
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| A radiographic examination of the breasts to detect the presence of tumors or precancerous cells |
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| Double layered membrane sac that encloses the heart |
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| Outer layer that forms a fibrous layer of the Pericardium |
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| Inner layer of the percardium, outlayer of heart |
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| fluid between visceral and parietal layers, to prevent friction from heart beats |
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| Outer layer of heart, visceral pericardium |
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| Myocardial muscle, middle and thickest muscle of the heart, constant contraction and relaxation of this muscle causes the pumping motion to circulate blood |
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| inner lining of the heart |
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give oxygen rich blood to the myocardium
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| Two upper chambers of the heart |
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| Lower chambers of the heart, pump blood |
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| controls opening between right side atria and ventricle |
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| Pulmonary Semilunar valve |
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| half moon shaped valve, pertaining to the lungs |
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| bicuspid valve, Mitral=bishops hat |
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| half moon shaped valve between the aorta and and left ventricle |
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| blood circulation only between the heart and lungs |
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| Carry oxygenated blood into the left artium of the heart |
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| SA Node, establishes basic rhythm, natural pace maker |
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| AV Node, on the bottom of the upper chambers, carries electrical impulses to contracting muscles |
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| group of fibers located within the interventricular septum |
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| specialized conducting fibers in the walls of the ventricles |
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| Major arteries in the neck |
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| Common, internal, external carotid |
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| C: blood to the head, I: blood to the head, E: blood to the face |
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| thinner branches of arteries that carry blood to capillaries |
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| S: near the suface, D: within tissues |
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| Largest veins in the body, valves to the heart |
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highest pressure against the walls of the arteries
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| when the ventricles are relaxed |
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| normal beats in artia are replaced with rapid irregular beats |
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| useless contractions of ventricles |
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| rapid heart beat starting in the ventricles |
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| inflammation of the veins |
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| cellular elements of blood are bad |
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| Iron overload in the blood |
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| any situation where total number of white blood cells are less than normal |
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