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| the initial perception of fetal movement by the mother usually occurring at 16 to 18 weeks of pregnancy |
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| abnormal sounds that originates from the trachea, bronchi, or lungs; crepitation, crepitant rale, a rale of crackling quality, usually applied to moist rales; consonating rale, a loud, clear, ringing rale that sounds close to the ear, often associated with pulmonary consolidation. |
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| paroxysmal pallor or cyanosis of a distal extremity, induced by chilling or emotion. |
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| abbreviated term for rebound tenderness; abdominal discomfort on sudden withdrawal of the palpating hand. |
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| hernial protrusion of part of the rectum into the vagina |
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| pertaining to the kidneys |
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| a thin, concave-shaped abdomen. Literally "shiplike," derived from the Greek |
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| a psychiatric disease characterized by disordered thinking, hallucinations and delusions |
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| pain in the lower back and along the sciatic nerve distribution |
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| a side-to-side curvature in the spine |
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| blind or partially blind area in the visual field |
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| a syndrome associated with bloodstream infection |
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| acute circulatory collapse, with pallor, hypotension, and coldness of the skin (also, a palpable heart sound.) |
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| objective evidence of disease as found on physical exam |
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| abnormal structure which causes symptoms and signs because they impinge upon normal brain tissues |
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| expectorated or mucopurulent secretion from the air passages |
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| imflammation of the mouth |
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| involuntary loss of urine during period of increased intravesical pressure, such as can be produced by coughing, straining, or lifting |
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| an alteration in health status which the patient perceives and expresses; elicited during the history |
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| temporary unconsciousness due to cerebral ischemia |
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| contraction; period of contraction during which the atria or ventricles eject blood; ventricular systole includes the first and second sounds and the period between them; when the term systole or diastole is used alone, it is assumed to refer to the ventricles |
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