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| VIBRATORY TREMORS PALAPTED OR AUSCULTATED THROUGH THE CHEST WALL |
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| FUNGAL INFECTION (CONDITION CHARACTERIZED BY ITCHING, SCALING AND SOMETIMES PAINFUL LESIONS) |
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| FUNGAL INFECTION (CONDITION CHARACTERIZED BY ITCHING, SCALING AND SOMETIMES PAINFUL LESIONS) |
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| STREAK OR LINEAR SCAR CAUSED BY RAPID TENSION ON SKIN. SECONDARY LESION EX. STRETCH MARKS |
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| HAVING A NET-LIKE PATTERN OR STRUCTURE. EX. FIFTH'S DISEASE |
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| ELEVATED PUS-FILLED LESION. EX. ACNE, IMPETIGO, HERPES SIMPLEX |
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| SMALL REDDISH PURPLE HEMORRHAGIC SPOTS (NONBLANCHABLE) VASCULAR LESION < 0.5 CM |
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| A SMALL NODE, A PALPABLE KNOT. PRIMARY LESION 1-2 CM IN DIAMETER |
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| PIGMENT PRODUCED THAT GIVE COLOR TO SKIN, HAIR AND EYES |
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| THICKENING & HARDENING OF EPIDERMIS - CAUSED BY SCRATCHING. SECONDARY LESION EX. CHRONIC DERMATITIS |
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| EXCESSIVE GROWTH OF SCAR. SECONDARY LESION |
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| AREAS OF INCREASED PIGMENTATION (DARKENING) OF THE SKIN |
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| LINEAR CRACK OF BREAK IN EPIDERMIS TO DERMIS. SECONDARY LESION. EX. ECZEMA |
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| LOSS OF THE SURFACE LAYER OF SKIN. SECONDARY LESION |
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| A CLOSED SAC OR POUCH; USUALLY FLUID OR SEMI-SOLID FILLED |
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| AN INJURY IN WHICH THE SKIN IS NOT BROKEN; PAIN, SWELLING & DISCOLORATION. EX. HEMATOMA |
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| LARGE BLISTER FILLED WITH FLUID. PRIMARY LESION >1 CM |
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| ELEVATED IRREGULARLY SHAPED CUTANEOUS EDEMA, SOLID & TRANSIENT LESION. PRIMARY LESION |
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| VASCULAR REACTION OF THE SKIN RESULTING IN WHEALS OR PAPULES, SEVERE ITCHING |
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| COURSE PIGMENTED HAIR FOUND ON SCALP, AXILLA, PUBIC AREA AND ON MALE FACE. |
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| OVERPRODUCTION BY SEBACEOUS GLANDS RESULTING IN EXCESSIVE OILINESS WITH OR WITHOUT SCALES |
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| SEVERE ITCHING (RESULTS IN SCRATCHING) |
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| A SMALL SOLID ELEVATED PRIMARY LESION <1 CM |
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| A CONGENITAL DISCOLORATION, EX. BIRTHMARK OR MOLE |
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| A FLAT CIRCUMSCRIBED DISCOLORATION OF THE SKIN. PRIMARY LESION FLAT < 1 CM IN DIAMETER EX. MOLE, FRECKLE, RUBELLA, RUBEOLA |
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| DOWNY HAIRS COVERING THE BODY, COMMON IN PREMATURE INFANTS |
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| A YELLOW DISCOLORATION OF SKIN, MUCOUS MEMBRANES AND SCLERA CAUSED BY INCREASED BILIRUBIN LEVELS IN BLOOD |
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| EXCESSIVE BODY HAIR IN A MASCULINE DISTRIBUTION PATTERN AS A RESULT OF HEREDITY, HORMONAL DYSFUNCTION OR MEDICATION |
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| LOSS OF EPIDERMIS; ABRASION; SCRATCH. SECONDARY LESION |
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| A SKIN INFLAMMATION, NOT AN INFECTION; MAY APPEAR AS RED SCALES, PUSTULES, ETC. WITH ITCHING |
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| A SCAB OF DRIED EXUDATE. SECONDARY LESION |
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| RING-SHAPED EX. SHAPE OF LESION NOTED IN TINEA CORPORIS (RING WORM) |
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| CYANOSIS OF EXTREMITIES; NORMAL IN INFANTS IN FIRST 24 HOURS |
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| SEROUS FLUID FILLED BLISTER-LIKE LESION. PRIMARY LESION < 1 CM EX. CHICKEN POX, IMPETIGO (HONEY COLORED CRUST) |
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| THE EXPECTED RESILIENCY OF THE SKIN |
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| PERMANENT DILATION OF PRE-EXISTING SMALL BLOOD VESSELS (CAPILLARIES). VASCULAR LESION |
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| SMALL, THIN DRY EXFOLIATION OF THE UPPER LAYERS OF SKIN. SECONDARY LESION |
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| A LARGE SOLID ELEVATED PRIMARY LESION > 1 CM |
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| WHITE PIN-HEAD SIZED EPIDERMAL CYSTS FILLED (WITH KERATINOUS DEBRIS) OCCURING ON NEWBORN INFANT'S FACE |
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| THE SOFTENING AND BREAKING DOWN OF SKIN RESULTING FROM PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO MOISTURE (i.e. BODILY FLUIDS). |
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| FORMATION OF HORNY GROWTHS ON THE SKIN |
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| AREAS OF DECREASED PIGMENTATION. EX. VITILIGO |
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| AN ENLARGED THYROID GLAND. VISIBLE AS SWELLING IN FRONT OF NECK. MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH HYPERTHYROIDISIM, HYPOTHYROIDISM |
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| REDNESS OF INFLAMMATION OF THE SKIN (DILATION OF SUPERFICIAL CAPILLARIES). EX. BLUSHING, MILD SUNBURN |
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| A LARGE IRREGULAR SKIN DISCOLORATION; FIRST BLUE/BLACK RESOLVING TO YELLOW, THEN GONE. EX. BRUISE |
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| BLUISH DISCOLORATION OF SKIN CAUSED BY EXCESS DEOXYGENATED HEMOGLOBIN IN THE BLOOD |
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| ABNORMAL ENLARGEMENT OF DISTAL PHALANGES (i.e. FINGERS, TOES) ASSOCIATED WITH AN INCREASED ANGLE > 160 DEGREES DUE TO CHRONIC HYPOXIA (SEEN IN HEART DISEASE, COPD). |
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| SKIN INFLAMMATION; INFECTION; FORMS A PAINFUL NODULE; LEAKS PUS |
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| TUMOR OF BLOOD OR LYMPH VESSELS, USUALLY BENIGN. VASCULAR LESSON VARIES IN SIZE EX. CHERRY ANGIOMA, HEMANGIOMA, SPIDER ANGIOMA |
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| OUTER EAR INFECTION (SWIMMER'S EAR) |
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| INNER EAR INFECTION (LABRINTHITIS) |
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| THE PINNA - THE OUTER EAR |
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| RAISED YELLOW PLAQUES ON THE EYELIDS, MAY BE DUE TO HYPERCHOLESEROLEMIA |
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| DROPPING OR DROOPING OF AN ORGAN SUCH AS AN EYELID |
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| ACRONYM THAT STANDS FOR: PUPILS ARE EQUAL, ROUND, REACTIVE TO LIGHT WITH ACCOMMODATION |
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| OCULAR SINISTER: LEFT EYE |
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| NEARSIGHTEDNESS, IMAGE IN FRONT OF RETINA |
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| ABNORMAL INCREASED DISTANCE BETWEEN EYES |
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| BLINDNESS IN ONE OF THE VISUAL FIELD |
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| ABNORMAL PROTRUSION OF THE EYEBALLS |
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| INWARD ROLLING OF THE EYELID |
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| REFRACTORY LENS FOUND IN OPHTHALMOSCOPE |
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| CLOUDING OF THE LENS OF THE EYE |
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| LAZY EYE, REDUCTION OR DIMNESS OF VISION WITH NO APPARENT PATHOLOGICAL CONDITION OF EYE |
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| LARGEST OF THE THREE AUDITORY OSSICLES IN THE MIDDLE EAR |
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| CROSS-EYED, OPTIC AXES CANNOT BE DIRECTED TO THE SAME OBJECT |
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| THICK TRIANGULAR (WING-LIKE) GROWTH OF TISSUE THAT EXTENDS MEDIALLY FROM THE NASAL BORDER OF CORNEA TO THE INNER CANTHUS OF EYE |
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| INFLAMMATION OF THE OPTIC NERVE CAUSED BY INCREASED INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE |
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| PRONOUNCED OR ABNORMAL DILATION OF PUPIL |
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| FARSIGHTEDNESS,IMAGE FOCUSED BEHIND RETINA |
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| MARKED TURNING INWARD OF EYES |
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| AN EVERSION (OUTWARD TURNING OR SAGGING) OF THE EYELID |
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| INFLAMMATION OF THE CONJUNCTIVA (MUCOUS MEMBRANE LINING OF EYELID AND SCLERA) CAUSED BY BACTERIAL OR VIRAL INFECTION, ALLERGIES OR ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS |
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| ALTERATION IN THE CURVATURE OF THE EYEBALL SO THE IMAGE IS NOT SHARPLY FOCUSED |
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| AN ISLAND-LIKE BLIND GAP IN THE VISUAL FIELD |
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| LOSS OF THE EYES LENS TO ACCOMMODATE TO NEAR VISION. OCCURS AROUND AGE 40 |
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| INVOLUNTARY MOVEMENT OF THE EYE |
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| EYELID POSITIONED HIGHER THAN NORMAL ON EYEBALL, AS NOTED WITH THYROID DISEASE |
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| STY, INFECTIOUS PROCESS IN THE EYELID |
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| ABNORMAL CONDITION OF INCREASED INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE |
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| A VERTICAL FOLD OF SKIN FROM ROOT OF NOSE TO MEDIAN |
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| SMALL, LOCALIZED SWELLING OF EYELID (STYE) CAUSED BY OBSTRUCTION AND DILATION OF THE MEOBIAN GLAND |
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| OPAQUE WHITE RING AROUND CORNEA CAUSED BY FAT DEPOSITS |
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| INFLAMMATION OF THE NASAL MUCOSA |
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| INFLAMMATION OF THE PHARYNX (SORE THROAT) |
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| HYPERTROPHY (ENLARGEMENT) OF THE TONGUE ASSOCIATED WITH CONGENITAL DISORDERS, i.e. DOWN SYNDROME |
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| A FOLD OF MUCOUS MEMBRANE THAT CONNECTS TWO PARTS |
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| INABILITY OR DIFFICULTY SWALLOWING |
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| RELATING TO INSIDE OF CHEEK |
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| INFLAMMATION OF THE MIDDLE EAR WITH SEROUS FLUID PRESENT CREATING PRESSURE ON TYMPANIC MEMBRANE |
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| PORTION OF TYMPANIC MEMBRANE WHICH IS TAUT |
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| A SENSATION OF INSTABILITY, LOSS OF EQUILIBRIUM, CAUSED BY A DISTURBANCE IN THE SEMICIRCULAR CANAL OF THE INNER EAR |
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| A TUMOR WITH A PEDICLE, BLEEDS EASILY |
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| INFLAMMATION OR DEGENERATION OF DENTAL PERIOSTEUM; GUM DISEASE WITH BONE LOSS |
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| UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF THE JAW, EXPECIALLY THE MANDIBLE |
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| ANY DISORDER CHARACTERIZED BY A LOCALIZED OR GENERALIZED ENLARGEMENT OF LYMPH NODES OR LYMPH VESSELS |
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| ABNORMAL CONDITION OF LIPS CHARACTERIZED BY INFLAMMATION AND CRACKING OF SKIN |
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| INNER SURFACE OF THE TYMPANIC MEMBRANE WHERE THE MALLEUS IS ATTACHED |
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| PROGRESSIVE LOSS OF HEARING DUE TO NORMAL AGING |
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| PORTION OF TYMPANIC MEMBRANE WHICH IS NOT TAUT |
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| INFLAMMATION OF THE MOUTH |
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| GUMMY MASS OF MICROORGANISMS THAT GROW ON TEETH AND AROUND ROOTS |
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| A SMALL PROTUBERANCE OR ELEVATION SUCH AS TASTE PAPILLAE OF THE TONGUE |
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| WHITE SPOTS OR PATCHES ON TONGUE OR CHEEKS, MAY BE BECOME MALIGNANT |
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| LOSS OR IMPAIRMENT OF THE SENSE OF SMELL |
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| CARTILAGINOUS PROJECTION IN FRONT OF THE EXTERNAL OPENING TO THE EAR. (PHOTO DEPICTS TRAGUS WITH PIERCING) |
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| INFLAMMATION OF EAR WITH PURULENT DRAINAGE |
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| ABNORMAL LOCALIZED DILATION OF THE WALL OF A BLOOD VESSEL, MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND HYPERTENSION |
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| DISTENDED, SWOLLEN AND KNOTTED VEINS |
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| A HEART RATE GREATER THAN 100 IN AN ADULT |
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| AN ABNORMAL LUND SOUND HEARD ON AUSCULTATION OF AN AIRWAY OBSTRUCTED BY THICK SECRETIONS, MUSCULAR SPASMS, NEOPLASM, OR EXTERNAL PRESSURE. MORE PRONOUNCE DURING EXPIRATION |
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| ABNORMALLY DEEP, VERY RAPID SIGHING RESPIRATIONS CHARACTERISTIC OF DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS |
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| PATTERN OF BREATHING IN WHICH MOST OF THE WORK IS DONE BY THE DIAPHRAGM. TECHNIQUE TAUGHT TO COPD PATIENTS TO FACILITATE RESPIRATION |
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| RUBBING BETWEEN THE SEROUS MEMBRANES THAT LINE THE OUTSIDE OF THE LUNGS & THOSE THAT LINE THE INSIDE OF THE CHEST |
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| RAPID, VIOLENT OR THROBBING SENSATION SUCH AS ABNORMAL FLUTTERING OF THE HEART |
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| AN ABNORMAL CONDITION IN WHICH THE BLOOD PRESSURE IS NOT ADEQUATE FOR NORMAL PERFUSION AND OXYGENATION OF THE TISSUES |
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| CONGESTION, AN UNUSUAL AMOUNT OF BLOOD IN AN AREA. CAUSED BY INCREASED BLOOD AS IN AN INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE |
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| PECTUS EXCAVATUM: A CONGENITAL CONDITION OF DEPRESSION OF THE STERNUM |
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| INFLAMMATION OF THE NASAL MUCOSA WITH PROFUSE NASAL DISCHARGE; A COLD |
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| A CONTINUOUS SOUND HEARD ON INSPIRATION AND EXPIRATION CAUSED BY HIGH VELOCITY AIRFLOW THROUGH A NARROWED AIRWAY |
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| AN ABNORMAL TREMOR ACCOMPANYING A VASCULAR OR CARDIAC MURMUR FELT ON PALPATION |
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| AN ABNORMAL, HIGH-PITCHED, HARSH SOUND CAUSED BY AN OBSTRUCTION IN THE TRACHEA. USUALLY HEARD ON INSPIRATION |
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| IN RESPIRATION, THE PULLING BACK OF INTERCOSTAL OR OTHER MUSCLES DUE TO RESPIRATORY DISTRESS |
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| CHEYNE-STOKES RESPIRATIONS |
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| AN ABNORMAL PATTERN OF RESPIRATION, CHARACTERIZED BY ALTERNATIONG PERIODS OF APNEA AND DEEP RAPID BREATHING |
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| THE PERCUSSION NOTE HEARD OVER THE LUNGS |
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| FLUID IN THE THORAX BETWEEN THE SEROUS MEMBRANES THAT LINE THE OUTSIDE OF THE LUNGS & THE INSIDE OF THE CHEST WALL |
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| SMALL, PURPLISH, HEMORRHAGIC SPOTS ON THE SKIN |
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| CONGENITAL CONDITION IN WHICH THE STERNUM IS PROMINENT CREATING PIGEON |
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| LACK OF COLOR, OR PALENESS |
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| INCREASED RESPIRATIONS RESULTING IN LOWERED CO2 |
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| A SOUND OF THE SAME VOLUME AND TONE FOR THE ENTIRETY OF ITS DURATION |
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| A HEART MURMUR CAUSED BY AN ALTERATION OF FUNCTION WITHOUT STRUCTURAL HEART DISEASE OR DAMAGE, i.e. A MURMUR RELATED ANEMIA |
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| THE TRAPPING OF BLOOD CAUSING A BACKUP IN THE VEINS |
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| A RAPID RATE OF RESPIRATIONS |
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| SPLITTING OF HEART SOUNDS |
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| THE TOW COMPONENTS OF S1 & S2 ARE HEARD AS SEPARATE SOUNDS BECAUSE OF A DELAY IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HEART |
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| RESPIRATIONS PERFORMED ALMOST ENTIRELY BY EXPANSION OF THE CHEST WITH THE ABDOMEN MOVING LITTLE OR NOT AT ALL |
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| AN ABNORMAL RESPIRATORY PATTERN CHARACTERIZED BY SHORT, RAPID BREATHING FOLLOWED BY IRREGULAR PERIODS OF APNEA, LIKE CHEYNES-STOKES |
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| CRACKLE: A COMMON ABNORMAL SOUND HEARD ON AUSCULTATION DURING INSPIRATION CHARACTERIZED BY DISCONTINUOUS BUBBLING/CRACKLE NOISES (RUB HAIR BETWEEN FINGERS OVER EARS). |
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| THE SOUND HEARD BY AUSCULTATION CAUSED BY FRICTION AS INFLAMED PERICARDIAL SURFACES MOVE OVER THE HEART (INTENSE GRATING MACHINE-LIKE SOUND) |
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| THE DISTINCT TRANSMISSION OF WHISPERED WORD HEARD ON AUSCULTATION. (OFTEN SIGN OF LUNG CONSOLIDATION- AS IN PNEUMONIA) |
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| BREATHING DIFFICULTY IN ANY POSITION EXCEPT AN ERECT SITTING OR STANDING |
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| HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, EITHER SYSTOLIC, DIASTOLIC OR BOTH |
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| A HEART RATE WITH THREE SOUNDS TO EACH BEAT |
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| SLIGHTLY BLUISH, GRAYISH OR SLATE-LIKE COLOR TO THE SKIN OR MUCOUS MEMBRANES |
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| AN ABNORMAL SOUND OF VENOUS OR ARTERIAL ORIGIN HEARD ON AUSCULTATION, FREQUENTLY DUE TO NARROWING OF THE VESSEL |
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| A NORMAL SOUND HEARD WITH A STETHOSCOPE OVER THE MAIN AIRWAY OF THE LUNGS, ESPECIALLY THE TRACHEA |
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| INCREASED ANTERIOR-POSTERIOR DIAMETER OF THE CHEST. uSUALLY ASSOCIATED WITH COPD |
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| AN ABSENCE OF SPONTANEOUS RESPIRATION |
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| AN ALTERATION OF THE FINGERNAIL AND END OF FINGER IN WHICH THE NAIL BED ANGLE IS INCREASED AND SOFT ISSUE ENLARGES |
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| AN ABNORMAL INCREASE IN TONE OR CLARITY IN VOCAL RESONANCE THAT MAY RESULT FROM INCREASED LUNG DENSITY (i.e. LUNG CONSOLIDATION AS WITH PNEUMONIA). ASSESSED BY HAVING PATIENT RECITE THE WORD "NINETY-NINE" WHILE THE EXAMINER AUSCULTATES EACH LUNG FIELD |
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| ABNORMALLY LOW RATE OF BREATHING -LESS THAN 12 BREATHS PER MINUTE |
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| THE HEARTBEAT AS HEARD WITH THE STETHOSCOPE PLACED ON THE CHEST WALL ADJACENT TO THE CARDIAC APEX (MITRAL VALVE AREA) |
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| ABNORMAL, SHORT, DEEP, HOARSE SOUNDS ON EXPIRATION DUE TO THE CLOSING OF THE EPIGLOTTIS TO MAINTAIN AN END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE IN THE LUNGS TO KEEP THEM OPEN |
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| AN ABNORMAL CHANGE IN VOCAL TONE HEARD OVER THE CHEST WITH AUSCULTATION, LETTER "E" HEARD AS LETTER "A" |
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| EXCESSIVE FLUID IN THE TISSUE OF THE BODY THAT IS LOCALIZED |
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| DIFFICULT, LABORED RESPIRATIONS (AIR HUNGER) |
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| NORMA, UNLABORED RESPIRATIONS |
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| AN ELECTRICAL IMPULSE THAT ORGINATES IN THE HEART AT A SITE OTHER THAN THE SA NODE |
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| EXCESSIVE FLUID IN THE TISSUE OF THE BODY, NOT LOCALIZED TO A DEPENDENT REGION OR INJURY |
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| PART OF THE CARDIAC CYCLE: CONTRACTION OF THE HEART, DRIVING THE BLOOD INTO THE AORTA & PULMONARY ARTERIES. INDICATED BY THE FIRST HEART SOUND ON AUSCULTATION, S1 |
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| SEVERE CALF PAIN WHICH OCCURS DURING WALKING AND SUBSIDES WITH REST |
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| A NORMAL SOFT BREEZY SOUNDS HEARD WITH THE STETHOSCOPE OVER THE LUNG PERIPHERY |
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| HEART RATE IS LESS THAN 60 BEATS PER MINUTE |
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| ANY DEVIATION FROM THE NORMAL PATTERN OF THE HEARTBEAT |
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| SEVERE PAIN AROUND THE HEART DUE TO A RELATIVE DEFICIENCY OF OXYGEN TO THE HEART MUSCLE |
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| SHORT, SHARP SOUND HEARD AS BLOOD IS EJECTED FROM THE HEART |
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| EXCESSIVE FLUID IN THE TISSUE, USUALLY THE SKIN, WHEN PRESSED WITH THE FINGER THE DEPRESSION MADE REMAINS |
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| EXCESSIVE FLUID ACCUMULATION IN THE TISSUES IN THE LOWER PART OF THE BODY BELOW THE HEART |
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| PART OF THE CARDIAC CYCLE: PERIOD BETWEEN CONTRACTIONS OF THE ATRIA AND VENTRICLES DURING WHICH BLOOD ENTERS THE RELAXED CHAMBERS FROM THE SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION & LUNGS. BEGINS WITH THE ONSET OF THE SECOND HEART SOUNDS AND ENDS WITH THE FIRST HEART SOUND |
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