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| A specialist who studies blood |
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| A specialist who studies the heart |
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| A specialist who studies the lungs |
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| is a serious disturbance in mental abilities that results in confused thinking and reduced awareness of your environment |
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| Is an abnormal collection of fluid in the pleural space |
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| Congestive heart failure-is generally classified as systolic or diastolic heart failure |
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| the heart's ability to pump blood is decreased because the heart's main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, is enlarged, dilated and weak. |
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| any of various materials used for covering and protecting a wound |
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| Is a general term for a decline in mental ability severe enough to interfere with daily life |
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| Activities of daily living |
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| The condition of having less than the normal number of red blood cells or less than the normal quantity of hemoglobin in the blood |
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| Lung inflammation caused by bacterial or viral infection, in which the air sacs fill with pus and may become solid |
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| A condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body |
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