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ADLs
Activity of daily living |
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| Basic everyday task that are required to take care of one's body for the maintenance of health and independent living. |
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| A condition in which the concentration of hemoglobin in the circulating blood is below normal. |
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| A type of symmetry exhibited by some organism in which only one plane, the midsagittal plane, divides the organism into mirror image halves. |
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| The administration of whole blood or components, such as paced red blood cells, to replace lost through trauma, surgery, or disease. |
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CHF
Congestive Heart Failure |
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| A clinical syndrome characterized by an inability of the heart to pump enough blood and oxygen to meet the energy needs of the body. |
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| A physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases related to the cardiovascular. |
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| A condition of altered consciousness in which there is disorientation, incoherent talk and restlessness but with hallucinations, illusions or delusions also present. |
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| An acquired and irreversible deterioration in intellectual function. |
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| The act of identifying a disease by analyzing the symptoms without considering biological causes |
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| Shortage of air resulting in labored or difficult breathing sometimes accompanied by pain. |
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| A print out of the electrical activity of the heart, used to get heart rate, rhythm, conduction abnormalities, myocardial ischemia. |
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| Abnormal accumulation of fluid in the body tissue or in the body cavities causing swelling or distention of the affected parts. |
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| Examining the fundus of the eye. |
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| The base or most interior part of an organ. |
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| A physician specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the blood and blood-forming tissues. |
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| Name given to heart failure with left ventricular dilation resulting from ischemic heart disease. |
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| The space in the chest which lies between the 2 lungs. It contains the heart, the aorta and vena cava, the gullet, the extremity of the trachea, the thoracic duct, the phrenic nerves, and other structures of lesser importance. |
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| Is the collection of an unusually large amount of fluid there, it can be the result of pulmonary or non-pulmonary disease. |
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| An acute inflammation of the lungs, acute infection of one or both lungs that can be caused by a bacterium, usually streptocpccus pneumonia. |
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| A specialist in the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the lungs. |
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