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| The scientific study of the process and problems of aging. |
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| Spontaneous or theraputic restoration, after disease, illness, or injury, of the ability to function in a normal or near-normal manner. |
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| The act of restoring or the condition of being restored, as a returning to a normal or healthy condition. |
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| A facility or program designed to provide a caring enviornment for supplying the physical and emotional needs of the terminally ill. |
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| A physician serving a residency. |
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| The art or act of identifying a disease from its signs and symptoms. |
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| Of or relating to the treatment of disease or disorders by remedial agents or methods. |
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| Complaints against a wrong. |
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| The statutorily protected right and duty of health professionals not to disclose information acquired during consultation with a patient. |
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| Loss of the sense of familiarity with one's surroundings. |
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| The quality or condition of relying upon, being influenced by, or being subservient to a person or object reflecting a particular need. |
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| Removal, by suction, or a gas or fluid from a body cavity, from unusual accumulations, or from a container. Also, the inspiratory sucking into the airways of fluid or foreign body, as of vomitus. |
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| An escape of blood through ruptured or unruptured vessel walls. |
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| Capable of being communicated or transmitted; said especially of disease. |
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| Existing at birth, referring to mental or physical traits, anomalies, malformations, or diseases, which may be either hereditary or due to an influence occuring during gestation up to the moment of birth. |
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| The science and study of the causes of disease and their mode of operation. |
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| An increase in the severity of a disease or any of its signs and symptoms. |
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| Abatement or lessening in severity of the symptoms of a disease. |
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| To pass into or invade by metastasis. |
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| A forecast of the probable course and/or outcome a disease. |
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| Referring to exposure, prolonged, or long-term, sometimes meaning also low-intensity. |
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| Diminished apetite; aversion to food. |
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| Relating to contagion; communicable or transmissible by contact with the sick and their fresh excretions or secretions. |
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| Denoting a disease, condition, or abnormality, that is not inherited. |
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| A physical or mental injury. |
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| A condition resulting from a defective immune mechanism; may be primary (due to a default in the immune mechanism itself) or secondary (dependent upon another disease process). |
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| Federally managed health insurance plan covering Americans over age 65 and Americans under age 65 who have certain disabilities; established by a 1965 amendment to the Social Security Act. |
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| Program established under Title XIX of the Social Security Act, which provides health insurance to poor people; it is funded jointly by the state and federal governments. Formerly known as medical assistance. |
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| The process or condition of becoming worse. |
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| A conscious feeling of accord, trust, empathy, and mutual responsiveness between two or more persons that fosters the theraputic process. |
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| To treat or operate with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner. |
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| A degenerative brain disease of unknown cause that is the most common form of dementia, that usually starts in late middle age or in old age, that results in progressive memory loss, impaired thinking, disorientation, and changes in personality and mood, that leads in advanced cases to a profound decline in cognitive and physical functioning, and that is marked histologically by the degeneration of brain neurons, especially in the cerebral cortex of and by the presence of neurofibrality tangles and plaques containing beta-amyloid. |
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| A usually progressive condition (as Alzheimer's disease) marked by the development of multiple cognitive deficits (as memory impairment, aphasia, and inability to plan and initiate complex behavior). |
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| A false belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that persists despite the facts and occures in some psychotic states. |
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| An abnormal and overwhelming sense of apprehension and fear often marked by physiological signs (as sweating, tensions, and increased pulse), by doubt concerning the reality and nature of the threat, and by self-doubt about one's capacity to cope with it. |
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| An inability to coordinate voluntary muscular movements that is symptomatic of some nervous disorders. |
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| Paralysis of all four limbs. |
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| Any of the four more or less equivalent segments into which an anatomic structure may be divided by vertical and horizontal partitioning through its midpoint. |
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| Decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue. |
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| Inability to pursure an occupation because of physical or mental impairment. |
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| Pressure-induced ulcerations of the skin occuring in persons confined to bed for a long period of time. |
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| To surgically remove lacerated, devitalized, or contaminated tissue. |
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| To move from place to place, walk. |
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| A device used to transfer people from one position to another or one thing to another. |
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| A device that restricts movement. |
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| A joint that usually forms a corner. |
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| A condition in which the blood is deficient in red blood cells, in hemoglobin, or in total volume. |
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| A disease marked by brief paroxysmal attacks of chest pain precipitated by deficient ovygenation of the heart muscles. |
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| The process of forming an area of necrosis in a tissue or organ resulting from obstruction of the local circulation by a thrombus or embolus. |
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| Any of the smallest blood vessels connecting arterioles with venules and forming networks throughout the body. |
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| A chronic disease characterized by abnormal thickening and hardening of the arterial walls with resulting loss of elasticity. |
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| A condition in which an artery wall thickens as a result of the accumulation of fatty materials such as cholesterol. |
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| Profuse perspiration artificially induced. |
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| A deficiency of oxygen reaching the tissues of the body. |
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| The passive rhythmical expansion or dialation pf the cavities of the heart during which they fill with blood. |
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| The contraction of the heart by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up. |
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| Abnormal accumulation of serious fluid in the spaces between tissues and organs in the cavity of the abdomen. |
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| Difficulty in breathing that occurs when lying down and is relieved upon changing to an upright position. |
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| Deficient supply of blood to a body part (as the heart or brain) that is due to obstruction of the inflow of arterial blood (as by the narrowing of arteries by spasm or disease). |
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| Difficult or labored respiration. |
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| (C3H5N3O4) A heavy oily explosive poisonous liquid used as a vasodialator. |
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| A chamber of the heart which recieves blood from a corresponding atrium and from which blood is forced into the arteries. |
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| Loss of consciousness resulting from insufficient blood flow to the brain. |
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| A clot of blood fromed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin. |
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| An abnormal particle (as in an air bubble) circulating in the blood. |
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| An instrument for measuring blood pressure. |
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| An instrument used to detect and study sounds produced in the body that are conveyed to the ears of the listener through rubber tubing connected with a usually cup-shaped piece placed upon the area to be examined. |
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| A bluish or purple discoloration (as of skin) due to deficient oxygenation of the blood. |
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| To eject from the throat or lungs by coughing or hawking and spitting. |
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| Matter expectorated from the respiratory system and especially the lungs and bronchi in diseased states that is composed chiefly of mucus but may contain pus, blood, fibrin, or microorganisms (as bacteria). |
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| A usually chronic highly variable disease that is caused by a bacterium of the genus Mycobacterium (M. tuberculosis) and rarely in the United States by a related mycobacterium (M. bousis), is usually communicated by inhalation of the airborne causative agent, affects especially the lungs but may spread to other areas (as the kidney or spinal column) from local lesions or by way of the lymph or blood vessels, and is characterized by fever, cough, diffculty in breathing, inflammatory infiltrations, formation of tubercules, caseation, pleural effusion, and fibrosis. |
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| To throw or pour back or out from as if from a cavity. |
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| Increased rate of respiration. |
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| Small thin-walled air-containing compartments of the lung that are typically arranged in saclike clusters into which an alveolar duct terminates and from which respiratory gases are exchanged with the pulmonary capillaries. |
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| A condition of the lung that is marked by distention and eventual rupture of the alveoli with progressive loss of pulmonary elasticity, that is accompanied by shortness of breath with or without cough, and that may leadto impairment of heart action. |
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| The cavity beneath the junction of the arm or anterior appendage and shoulder or pectoral girdle containing the axillary artery and vein, a part of the brachialplexus of the nerves, many lymph nodes, and fat and areolar tissue. |
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| A condition of having fetid breath. |
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| To enlarge, strech, or cause to expand. |
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| Relating to the area between the anus and the posterior part of the external genitalia especially in the female. |
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| An artificial replacement for one or more teeth. |
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| Minute reddih or purplish spots containing blood that appears in skin ormucous membranes as a result of localized hemmorhage. |
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| The generation of heat in tissue by electric currents for medical or surgical purposes. |
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| A bath in which the hips and buttocks are immersed in hot water for the theraputic effect of moist heat in the perineal and anal regions. |
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| Of, relating to, involving, forming,or located near a periphery or surface part (as of the body). |
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| Freedom from mistakes or errors. |
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| The horomone epinephrine extractedfrom animals or prepared synthetically for medical purposes. |
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| The state of being free of living pathogenic microorganisms. |
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| Lack of feeling or emotion. |
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| To impair the strength of. |
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| Applied or effected through the trachea. |
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| Of, relating to, or affecting the intestines. |
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| A state of balance between two opposing forces. |
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| A local response to cellular injury that is marked by capillary dialation, leukocytic infiltration,redness, heat,pain, swelling, and often loss of function and that serves as a mechanism initiating the elimination of noxious agents and of damaged tissue. |
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| The number of repeptitions of a periodic process in a unit of time. |
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| Unable to restrain natural discharges or evacuations of urine or feces. |
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| Masses of dialated veins in swollen tissue at the margin of the anus or nearby within the rectum. |
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| An abnormal depletion of body fluids. |
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| The injection of liquid into the intestine by way of the anus (for cleansing or examination). |
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| Bodily waste discharged through the anus. |
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| A solid, immobile bulk of human feces that can develop innthe rectum as a result of chronic constipation. |
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| Abnormally frequent instestinal evacuations with more or less fluid stools. |
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| Gas generated in the stomach or bowels. |
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| A solid but readily meltable cone or cylinder of usually medicated material for insertion into the retum. |
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| Surgical formation of an artificial anus by connecting the colon to an opening in the abdominal wall. |
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| The canal that in most mammals carries off the urine from the bladder and in the male serves also as a passageway for semen. |
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| A firm partly muscular partly glandular body that is situated about the base of the mammalian male urethra and secretes and alkaline viscid fluid which is a major consitutent of the ejaculatory fluid. |
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| A nautral body passage such as a canal or duct. |
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| Chemical analysis of urine. |
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| Abnormal retaining of a fluid or secretion in a body cavity. |
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| Reduced excretion of urine. |
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| Excessive secretion of urine. |
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| To eliminate solid or liquid waste from the body. |
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| A tubular medical device for insertion into canals, vessels, passageways, or body cavities for diagnostic or theraputic purposes (as to permit injection or withdrawal of fluids or to keep a passage open. |
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| Succesive waves of involuntary contractions passing along the walls of a hollow muscular structure and forcing the contents onward. |
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| An annular muscle surrounding and able to contract or close a body opening. |
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| Introduction of material into the stomach by a tube. |
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| The quality or state of being flatulent (gassy). |
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| Vividly or plainly shown or described. |
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| Of, resembling, or affected with coma (an extended period of unconsciousness). |
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| The appearance of spots and blotches of different shades of colors. |
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| The temporary rigidity of the muscles occuring after death. |
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| Being in the state of dying, approaching death. |
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| A psychologica defense mechanism in which confrontation with a personal problem or with reality is avoided by denying the existence of the problem or reality (First Stage of Grief). |
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| Acknowledging reality and beginning to move on (Fifth Stage of Grief). |
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| Trying to negotiate to avoid to postpone death. (Third Stage) |
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| A strong feeling of displeasure and usually of antagonism. (Second Stage) |
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| To feel grief (sadness over a loss). |
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| A yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and certain body fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments that follows interference with normal production and discharge of bile (as in liver diseases) or excessive breakdown of red blood cells (as after internal hemmorhage or in various hemolytic states). |
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| The space in tge chest between the pleural sacs of the lungs that contain all the viscera except the lungs and pleurae. |
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| The degree of heat that is natura to a living body. |
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| A new growth of tissue serving no physiological function. |
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| To come into posession of. |
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| The muscular tubular passage of the digestive and respiratory tracts that extends from the back of the nasal cavity and mouth to the esophagus. |
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| The smooth transparent serous membrane that lines that cavity of the abdomen of a mammal andnis folded inward over the abdomen and pelvic viscera. |
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| A specific causative agent of a disease. |
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| A conscious feeling of accord, trust, empathy, and mutual responsiveness between two or more persons that fosters the therapeutic process. |
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| The process of freeing something from living microorganisms. |
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| The act, process, or instance of transmitting something. |
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| An abnormal blood-filled dialation of a blood vessel and especially an artery resulting from disease of the vessel wall. |
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| The arrangement of the parts of the body (posture). |
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