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| Increased blood volume, which can occur with heart failure, or anything that interferes with filling of the right atrium or movement of the blood into the right ventricl |
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| a deficiency of erythrocytes or hemoglobin in the blood |
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| the physiological process by which urine production in the kidneys is increased as part of the body's homeostatic maintenance of fluid balance |
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| an 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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| heart failure in which the heart is unable to maintain adequate circulation of blood in the tissues of the body or to pump out the venous blood returned to it by the venous circulation |
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| cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It is an emergency lifesaving procedure that is done when someone's breathing or heartbeat has stopped |
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| is a tube inserted through the abdomen that delivers nutrition directly to the stomach |
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| MILLILITER a unit of capacity equal to one thousandth of a liter, and equivalent to 0.033815 fluid ounce, or 0.061025 cubic inch. |
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| GASTROINTESTINAL relating to the stomach and the intestines |
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