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| Mentally alert and having awareness of surroundings, sensations, and thoughts. |
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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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| Medication procedures used when a person's heart or lungs have stopped working. |
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| A condition in which 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 chocking. |
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| A condition that 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 condition that occurs when the heart muscle does not receive enough oxygen because blood flow to the heart is blocked; also called heart attack. |
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| Loss of consciousness; also called fainting. |
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| A sudden drop in blood pressure that occurs when a person sits or stands up. |
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| A complication of diabetes that can result from either too much insulin or too little food; also known as hypoglycemia. |
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| A complication of diabetes that can result from either too much insulin or too little food; also known as insulin reaction. |
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| Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) |
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| A complication of diabetes that is caused by having too little insulin in the body. |
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| A brain disorder that results from a disruption in normal electrical impulses in the brain, which causes repeated seizures, |
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| Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) |
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| A warning sign of a CVA/stroke resulting from a temporary lack of oxygen in the brain; symptoms may last up to 24 hours. |
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| The act of vomiting or ejecting stomach contents through the mouth and/or nose. |
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| Needs that involve social interaction, emotions, intellect, and spirituality. |
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| A type of care that involves 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 gender identity matches his or her birth sex. |
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| A continual process of revealing one's sexual orientation or gender identity to others. |
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| Typically, a heterosexual man who sometimes wears clothing and other items associated with woman. |
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| A person whose physical, emotional, and/or romantic attraction is for people of the same sex. |
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| A person whose physical, emotional, and/or 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 woman. |
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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 by some people to describe sexual orientation that is not exclusively heterosexual and who may feel that terms such as lesbian and gay are too limiting. |
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| A person whose gender identity conflicts with his or her birth sex. |
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| The process of changing genders, which can include legal procedures, medical measures, telling others, and using new pronouns. |
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| Of, or relating to, the spirit or soul. |
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| A belief that some part of living being survives death to be reborn in a new body. |
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| The belief that all past and present deeds affects one's future and future lives. |
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| A small skullcap worn by Jewish men as a sign of their faith. |
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| People who believe that they do not know or cannot know if God exists. |
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| People who believe that there is no God. |
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| Rules about what and when individuals can eat. |
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| Not eating or eating very little food. |
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| People who do not eat meat, fish, or poultry and may not eat eggs and dairy products. |
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| Vegetarians who do not eat any animal products, including mile, cheese, other dairy items, or eggs. |
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| The term for babies who are born before 37 weeks' gestation. |
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| Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) |
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| A condition in which babies stop breathing from a lack of oxygen or an excess of carbon dioxide in the body may result in unconsciousness or death. |
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| Related to thinking and learning. |
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| A highly contagious viral illness that affects nearly all children. |
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| A form of cancer in which the body's white blood cells are unable to fight disease. |
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| An eating disorder in which a person does not eat or exercises excessively to lose weight. |
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| An eating disorder in which a person eats huge amounts of foods or very fattening foods, and then eliminates the food by vomiting, using laxatives, or exercising excessively. |
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| The study of health, wellness, and disease later in life. |
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| The study of the ageing process in people from mid-life 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 that restrict physical and/or mental ability. |
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