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| Seen on a prescription, t.i.d. means three times a day. |
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| is swelling caused by excess fluid trapped in your body's tissues. |
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| the administration of whole blood or a component, such as packed red cells, to replace blood lost through trauma, surgery, or disease. |
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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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| A routine analysis performed on a sample of blood taken from the patient's vein with a needle and vacuum tube. The measurements taken in a CBC include a white blood cell count, a red blood cell count, the red cell distribution width, the hematocrit (ratio of the volume of the red blood cells to the blood volume), and the amount of hemoglobin (the blood protein that carries oxygen). CBCs are a routine blood test used for many medical reasons, not only for AIDS patients. They can help the doctor determine if a patient is in advanced stages of the disease. |
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| Abbreviation for Congestive Heart Failure |
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| The soft, brownish yellow, waxy secretion (a modified sebum) of the ceruminous glands of the external auditory canal. |
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| Shortness of breath, a subjective difficulty or distress in breathing, usually associated with disease of the heart or lungs; occurs normally during intense physical exertion or at high altitude. |
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| restoration of cardiac output and pulmonary ventilation following cardiac arrest and apnea, using artificial respiration and manual closed-chest compression or open-chest cardiac massage. |
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| a gathering for discussion or deliberation. multidisciplinary care conference in the nursing interventions classification, a nursing intervention defined as planning and evaluating patient care with health professionals from other disciplines. |
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| a specialist in the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the lungs |
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| the study of the heart and of diseases that affect the heart |
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| A medical science that deals with the blood and blood-forming organs |
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| As needed; as the circumstances require—used in writing prescriptions |
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The identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms.
The distinctive characterization in precise terms of a genus, species, or phenomenon.
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| A sudden state of severe confusion and rapid changes in brain function, sometimes associated with hallucinations and hyperactivity, during which the patient is inaccessible to normal contact. |
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