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| Being mentally alert and having awareness of surroundings, sensations, and thoughts |
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| Brain disorder that results from a disruption in normal electoral impulses in the brain causing repeated seizures |
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| A women who is physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction for another women |
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| People who don't eat meat, fish, poultry and may or may not eat eggs and dairy products |
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| Emergency care given immediately to an injured person by first people who respond to an emergency |
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| Transient ischemic attack(TIA) |
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| A warning sign of a heart attack(CVA) or stroke resulting from a temporary lack of blood supply to the brain. Symptoms may last 24 hours |
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| Nonbinary and/or genderqueer |
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| A person whose gender identity does not fit into the category of man or women |
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| People who don't eat meat, fish, poultry, and may or may not eat eggs and dairy products |
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| Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) |
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| Medical procedure used when a persons heart or lungs stop working |
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| The act of vomiting, or ejecting stomach contents through the mouth and/or nose |
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| Acronym for lesbians, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, and queer |
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| The term for babies who are born before 37 weeks gestation( more than three weeks before due date) |
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| Something is blocking the tube through which air enters the lungs |
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| Needs that relate to the process and activities that keep living things alive |
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| Used to describe sexual orientation that is not exclusively heterosexual |
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| Sudden infant death syndrome(SIDS) |
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| Babies stop breathing and die for no known reason while asleep |
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| Method of attempting to remove an object from the airway of someone who is choking |
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| Type of care that involves caring for the whole person- including the persons physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs |
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| A person whose gender indentity differs from the sex assigned at birth |
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| Related to thinking and learning |
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| Occurs when organs and tissues in the body do not receive an adequate blood supply |
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| To touch or rub sexual organs in order to give oneself or another person sexual pleasures |
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| Process of changing genders, which can include legal procedure, medical measures telling other, and using new procedures |
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| Highly contagious, viral illness that is common among children |
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| Myocardial infarction(MI) |
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| Heart muscle does not receive enough oxygen because blood flow to the heart is blocked |
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| A persons physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction to another person |
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| Of, or relating to the sprit or soul |
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| A form of cancer in which the body white blood cells are unable to fight the disease |
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| A deeply felt sense of ones gender |
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| A belief that some part of a living being survives death to be reborn in a new body |
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| eating disorder in which a person does not eat or exercises excessively to lose weight |
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| Loss of consciousness, fainting |
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| A person who is physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction to the same gender |
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| Belief that all past and present deeds affect ones future and future lives |
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| A eating disorder, a person eats huge amounts of foods or very fattening foods than eliminates food by vomitting, using laxatives or excersing exssively |
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| Sudden drop in blood pressure that occurs when a person sits or stands up |
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| A small skullcap worn by jewish men as a sign of faith |
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| A person whose physical, emotional, and/ or romantic attraction towards people of same sex |
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| A complication of diabetes that can result from either to much insulin or too little food also called hypoglycemia |
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| A complication of diabetes that can result from either to much insulin or too little food also called insulin reaction |
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| Branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease in older and the elderly adults as well as problems related to aging |
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| Study of the agin process in people from midlife through old age |
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| A person whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction towards same sex |
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| A person whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction towards same sex |
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| Not eating or eating very little |
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| Diabetic ketoacidosis(DKA) |
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| A complication of diabetes that is caused by having to little insulin in the body |
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| Rules about what and/or when individuals can eat |
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| Developmental disabilities |
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| Disabilites that are present at birth or emerge during childhood up to 22 |
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| Typically a heterosexual man who sometimes wears clothing and other items usually associated with women |
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| A person whose gender identity matches the persons birth sex( sex assigned at birth due to anatomy) |
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| A continual process of revealing ones sexual orientation or gender identity to others |
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| People who believe that there is o god |
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| Prejudice towards, stereotyping of, and/or discrimination against older person or the elderly |
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| People who believe that they do not know or cannot know if god exists |
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