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| being mentally alert and having awareness of surroundings |
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| emergency care given immediately to an injured person by the first people to respond to an emergency |
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| Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) |
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| the medical procedures used when a person's heart or lungs have stopped working |
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| when something is blocking the tube through which air enters the lungs |
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| a method of attempting to remove an object from the airway of someone who is choking |
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| occurs when organs and tissues in the body do not receive an adequate blood supply |
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| Myocardial Infarction (MI) |
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| a sudden drop in blood pressure that occurs when a person stands or sits up |
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| aka hypoglycemia; can result in too much insulin or too little food |
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| too much insulin or too little food |
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| Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) |
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| caused by having too little insulin in the body |
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| Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) |
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| a warning sign of CVA (a stroke) |
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| involves social interaction, emotions, intellect, and spirituality |
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| caring for the whole person - the mind as well as the body |
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| to touch or rub sexual organs in order to give oneself or another person sexual pleasure |
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| a person's physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction to another person |
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| a deeply felt sense of one's gender |
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| A person whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction may be for people of the same gender or different gender |
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| A person whose identity matches his or her birth sex |
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| A continual process of revealing one's sexual orientation or sexual identity to others |
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| Typically refers to a heterosexual man who sometimes wears clothing and other items associated with women |
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| A person whose physical, emotional, and/pr romantic attraction is for people of the same sex |
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| A person whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic romantic attraction is for people of the opposite sex |
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| A woman whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction is for other women |
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| acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender |
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| acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer |
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| a term used to describe sexual orientation that is not exclusively heterosexual and who feel the terms such as lesbian and gay are too limiting |
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| A persons whose gender identity conflicts with his or her sex |
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| the process of changing genders which can include legal procedures |
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| means of, or relating to, the spirit or soul |
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| repeating sequence of births and deaths |
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| the results of actions in past lives |
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| a small skullcap worn by Jewish men as a sign of their faith |
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| believe they do not know or cannot believe if God exists |
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| people who believe there is no God |
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| religious rules about what and when followers can eat and drink |
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| not eating food or eating very little food |
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| do not eat meat for religious, moral, or health reasons |
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| do not eat animals or animal products |
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| babies born before 37 weeks gestation (more than 3 weeks before the due date) |
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| Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) |
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| a condition in which babies stop breathing and die for no known reason while asleep |
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| a highly contagious, viral illness |
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| a form of cancer (white blood cells) |
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| an eating disorder in which a person does not eat or exercises excessively to lose weight |
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| binges, eating huge amounts of foods or very fattening foods, then purges |
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| the study of health, wellness, and disease later in life |
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| the study of the aging process in people from midlife through old age |
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| prejudice toward, stereotyping of, and/or discrimination against older persons or the elderly |
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| Developmental Disabilities |
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| disabilities that are present at birth or emerge during childhood |
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