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| Tachypnea | Rapid breathing.
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| Bradypnea | Slow breathing ,refers to an abnormally slow breathing rate. The rate at which bradypnea is diagnosed depends upon the age of the patient.
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| Tachycardia | Rapid Heart Rate
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| Bradycardia | Slowness Heart Rate
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| Systole | Term describing the contraction of the heart
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| Asystole | is a state of no cardiac electrical activity, hence no contractions of the myocardium and no cardiac output or blood flow.
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| Eupnea | normal relaxed breathing.
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| Apnea | Term for suspension of external breathing. Temporary cessation of breathing, esp. during sleep.
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| Hyperpnea | energetic (deep and rapid) respiration that occurs normally after exercise or abnormally with fever or various disorders.
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| Bounding | To leap forward or upward; spring.
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| Thready | Of, relating to, or resembling a thread. Consisting of or resembling thread; filamentous.
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| Hyperventilation | is the state of breathing faster and/or deeper than normal
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| Dyspnea | Difficulty in breathing often associated with lung or heart disease
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| Fever | 1.An abnormally high body temperature, usually accompanied by shivering, headache, and in severe instances, delirium.
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| Febrile | Of, relating to, or characterized by fever; feverish.
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| Afebrile | Having no fever.
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| Angina | A condition, such as severe sore throat, in which spasmodic attacks of suffocating pain occur.
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| Wheezing | To breathe with difficulty, producing a hoarse whistling sound
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| Rales | An abnormal respiratory sound characterized by fine crackles.
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| Rhonchi | A coarse rattling sound somewhat like snoring, usually caused by secretion in a bronchial tube
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| Orthopnea | a respiratory ailment in which the sufferer can breathe only when standing upright
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