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Week Three
Vocab and Abbreviations
Question | Answer |
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Habitus | The physique or body build |
Halitosis | bad breath causes of halitosis include dietary factors, poor oral hygiene |
Nephrotoxic | Damaging or deleterious to the kidney. Literally, toxic to the kidney |
Scleroderma | a disease of connective tissue with the formation of scar tissue (fibrosis) in the skin and sometimes also in other orans of the body |
Shingles | An acute infection caused by the herpes zoster virus, the same virus as cause's chickenpox. Shingles is most common after the age of 50 and the risk rises with advancing age |
Epistaxis | Medical term for nosebleed |
SIDS | Sudden Infant Death Syndrome |
Disorder, seasonal affective (SAD) | Depression that tends to occur (and recur) as the days grow shorter in the fall and winter |
FDA | The food and drug administration |
FTT | Failur to thrive. refers to a child whose physical growth is significantly less than that of peers |
g (gram) | Symbol for gram, a unit of measurement of weight and mass in the metric system |
mm | abbreviation for millimeters. for example, mm Hg means millimeters of mercury |