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| palpable and occationally visible displacement of the left thoracic wall over the cardiac region associated with ventricular contraction. This is the point of maximum intensity or heart sound |
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| abnormal slowness of the heart rate |
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| the time at which color returns to a mucous membrane blanched by the application of digital pressure. Uaually tested at the gingiva and measured in seconds. An indicator of peripheral perfusion |
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| any variation from the normal cardiac rhythm |
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| pertaining to diastole, the period of ventricular relaxation and filling |
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| a premature beat which originates in an area of the myocardium other than a component of the normal pacemaker as a conducting unit |
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| a sequence of three heart sounds consisting of the first and second heart sounds and an extra sound which is an intensified third or fourth heart sound or due to splitting of the components of the first heart sound in which the cadence of sound is similar to that of a horse's hooves at a gallop |
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| period to the entire systole (contraction of the heart) |
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| abnormally high body temperature |
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| abnormally low body temperature |
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| term used to describe a condition of mucosa in which the vasculature is congested so that the small vessels stand out and the membrane has a generally reddened appearance |
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| a soft blowing or rasping sound heard on cardiac auscultation. Murmurs are abnormal sounds |
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| a cardiac cycle which occurs earlier than it should thereby interrupting the normal cardiac rhythm |
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| rhythmic expansion of an artery |
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| failure of one or more cardiac contractions to generate a palpable pulse. Occurs in arrhythmias when tere is too short a diastolic interval to allow adequate ventricular filling |
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| a condition in which a generalized tendency to hemorrhage from small vessels results in the presence of petechial and ecchymotic hemorrhages on visible mucous membranes |
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| elevation of body temperature above normal; fever |
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| the normal cardiac arrhythmia inwhich heart rate fluctuates regularly in synchrony with respiration |
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| fainting; a suspension of consciousness due to cerebral anoxia secondary to reduced cerebral vascular perfusion |
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| abnormally fast heart rate |
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| a vibration palpable at the body surface indicative of underlying disturbance of blood flow |
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| pertaining to systole; the period of contraction of the ventricle and emptying |
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| formation of thrombi within the lumen of the heart or blood vessels |
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| abnormal pulsation in the jugular vein greater than half way up the neck, secondary to insufficiency of the tricuspid valve |
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