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| to draw away from a position near to the median of the body; to spread apart (fingers) |
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| to draw toward or past the median axis of the body; to bring together (fingers) |
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| loss or impairment of voluntary activity (as of a muscle) |
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| loss of memory due to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness; a gap in one's memory |
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| a motor disorder characterized by jerking movements and associated with various encephalopathies due especially to faulty metabolism |
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| decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue |
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| of, relating to, or affecting the right and left sides of the body or right and left members of paired organs |
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| any structural or functional disease of heart muscle that is marked especially by enlargement of the heart |
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| having a bulbous enlargement of the tip with convex overhanging nail |
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| inflammation of the conjuctiva (pink eye) |
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| the use of a cystoscope to examine the bladder |
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| difficulty in articulating words due to disease of the central nervous system |
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| loss of or deficiency in the power to use or understand language as a result of injury to or disease of the brain |
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| occurring in an abnormal position |
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| an involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine |
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| to cause to become more severe |
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| marked or caused by fever |
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| a bending movement around a joint in a limb that decreases the angle between the bones of the limb at the joint |
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| enlargement of the gums; cause could be hereditary or inflammation(drug-induced) |
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| a perception of something with no external cause usually arising from a disorder or the nervous system or in response to drugs |
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| lysis of red blood cells with liberation of hemoglobin |
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| a protrusion of an organ or part through connective tissue or through a wall of the cavity in which it is normally enclosed |
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| generalized or localized excessive sweating |
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| hupertonic - exhibiting excessive tone or tension; having a higher osmotic pressure than a surrounding medium or a fluid under comparison |
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| excessive development of an organ or part; increase in bulk without multiplication of parts |
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| a mild mania especially when part of bipolar disorder |
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| visual observation of the body in the course of a medical examination |
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| exaggerated outward curvature of the thoracic region of the spinal column resulting in a rounded upper back |
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| tending to produce death or deterioration; tending to infiltrate, metastasize, and terminate fatally |
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| the beginning of the menstrual function |
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| excessive or prolonged dilation of the pupil of the eye |
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| incision of the tympanic membrane (aka tympanotomy) |
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| inability to flex the head forward due to rigidity of the neck muscle |
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| reduced excretion of urine |
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| of, relating to, or functioning in osteogensis; producing bone |
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| a discharge from the external ear |
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| swelling and protrusion of the blind spot of the eye caused by edema |
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| paralysis of the lower half of the body with involvement of both legs usually due to disease of or injury to the spinal cord |
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| a minute reddish or purplish spot containing blood that appears in skin or mucous membrane as a result of localized hemorrhage |
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| a condition in which air or other gas is present in the pleural cavity and which occurs spontaneously as a result of disease or injury of lung tissue, etc. |
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| occurring in or being the period following parturition (giving birth) |
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| originating in the mind or in mental or emotional conflict |
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| paralysis of all four limbs |
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| destruction or degeneration of skeletal muscle tissue accompanied by the release of muscle cell contents into the bloodstream |
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| a lateral curvature of the spine |
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| situated or administered under the tongue |
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| relatively rapid heart action whether physiological or pathological |
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| aspiration of fluid from the chest |
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| a sensation of noise that is caused by a bodily condition and typically is of the subjective form which can only be heard by the one affected |
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| a thin membrane separating the middle ear from the inner part of the external auditory canal that vibrates in response to sound energy and transmits the resulting mechanical vibrations to the structures of the middle ear (eardrum) |
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| hives - allergic disorder marked by raised edematous red patches of skin or mucous membrane and usually by intense itching |
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| to breathe with difficulty usually with a whistling sound |
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