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MD who specialized in treating the heart.
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| Activities of Daily Living |
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MD who scializes in diaganosing and treating blood disorders
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electrocardiogram
is a test that checks for problems with the electrical activity of your heart. An EKG shows the heart's electrical activity as line tracings on paper. The spikes and dips in the tracings are called waves.
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| disease characterized by impairment of at least two brain functions, such as memory loss and judgment. |
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disease of the heart muscle
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| medical speciality that deals with diseases involving the respiratory tract. |
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identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms.
disease or abnormal condition |
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| excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body. |
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| routine part of every doctor's examination of the eye, not just the ophthalmologist's. It consists exclusively of inspection. One looks through the ophthalmoscope, which is simply a light with various optical modifications, including lenses. |
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| sometimes referred to as “water on the lungs,” is the build-up of excess fluid between the layers of the pleura outside the lungs. The pleura are thin membranes that line the lungs and the inside of the chest cavity and act to lubricate and facilitate breathing |
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| lung inflammation caused by bacterial or viral infection, in which the air sacs fill with pus and may become solid. Inflammation may affect both lungs ( double pneumonia ), one lung ( single pneumonia ), or only certain lobes ( lobar pneumonia ). |
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| condition marked by a deficiency of red blood cells or of hemoglobin in the blood, resulting in pallor and weariness. |
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| process of transferring the blood of a person into the veins of another. |
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| acutely disturbed state of mind that occurs in fever, intoxication, and other disorders and is characterized by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence of thought and speech. |
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