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LaShay Brooks
Medical Terminology
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01/05/2017

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Hematologist
Definition
A hematologist is a specialist in hematology, the scienece or study of blood, blood forming organs and blood diseases.
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Pulmonologist
Definition
A medical specialist that deals with diseases involving the respiratory tract.
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Cardiologist
Definition
The study of the heart and its actions and diseases.
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edema
Definition
An abnormal infiltration and excess accumulation of serous fluid in connective tissue or in serous cavity.
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fundoscopic
Definition
of,done, or obtained by ophtalmoscopic exmation of the fundus of the eye.
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pleural effusionan
Definition
exudation of fluid from the blood or lymph into a pleural cavity.
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pneumonia
Definition
A disease of the lungs charaterized especially by inflammtion and consolidation of lung tissue followed by resolution and by fever, chills, cough, difficulty in breathing and that is caused especially by infection.
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anemia
Definition
a condition in which the blood is deficient in red blood cells, in hemoglobin, or total volume.
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Blood Transfusion
Definition
a medical treatment in which someone's blood is put into the body of another person.
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delirium
Definition
an acute mental disturbance characterized by confused thinking and disrupted attention usually accompanied by disordered speech and hallucinations.
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Dementia
Definition
a usually progressive condition marked by deteriorated cognitive functioning often with emotional apathy.
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cardiomyopathy
Definition
any several structual or funtional diseases of heart muscle marked especially by hyertrophy and obstructive damage to the heart.
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Dyspena
Definition
Difficult or labored respiration.
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Lateral
Definition
of or relating to th side.
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mediastina
Definition
 the space in the chest between the pleural sacs of the lungs that contains all the tissues and organs of the chest except the lungs and pleurae. 
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bilateral
Definition
affecting reciprocally two nations or parties.
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Diagnosis
Definition
the art or act of identifying a disease from its signs and symptoms.
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ischemia
Definition
deficient supply of blood to a body part such as the heart or brain, that is due to obstruction of the inflow of arterial blood.
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fever
Definition
 a rise of body temperature above the normal.
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series
Definition
 a number of things or events of the same class coming one after another in spatial or temporal succession.
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