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vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| voluntarily refrain from something | Abstain |
| to be responsible | Accountable |
| sudden , intense | Acute |
| hold fast or stick together | Adhere |
| undesired, possibly harmful | Adverse |
| uncertain, having contradictory feelings | Ambivalent |
| to walk | Ambulate |
| to place, put on , or spread something | Apply |
| to give consent, agree | Assent |
| able to be heard | Audible |
| single -celled, microscopic organisms | Bacteria |
| present on two sides | Bilateral |
| relating to the heart | Cardiac |
| opening or empty area | Cavity |
| come to an end, bring to an end | Cease |
| lasting or recurring over a long period of time | Chronic |
| order of events as they occured | Chronology |
| offsetting or making up for something | Compensatory |
| rounded inward | Concave |
| brief, or to the point | Concise |
| present at birth | Congenital |
| degree of viscosity, how thick or thin a fluid is , or how it flows | Consistency |
| draw together or become smaller | Constrict |
| dependant | Contingent |
| reason something is not advisable, or should not be done | Contraindiction |
| having or causing convulsions | Convulsive |
| quick, perfunctory, not thorough | Cursory |
| expel feces | Defecate |
| press downward | Depress |
| downward measurement from a surface | Depth |
| worsening | Deteriorating |
| identification of an injury or disease | Diagnosis |
| spread over a large area, generalized | Diffuse |
| to enlarge or expand | Dilate |
| to make a liquid less concentrated | Dilute |
| distinct, seperate | Discrete |
| distant, away from the center | Distal |
| enlarged or expanded from pressure | Distended |
| impaired or abnormal functioning | Dysfunction |
| ability to share what others are feeling | Empathy |
| balance | Equilibrium |
| the origin or cause of a disease or condition | Etiology |
| to make worse or more severe | Exacerbate |
| to come in contact | Exposure |
| lengthening, unbending joint | Extension |
| resulting in death | Fatal |
| extreme tiredness, exhaustion | Fatigue |
| related to or caused by fever | Febrile |
| bending of a joint | Flexion |
| reddened or ruddy appearance | Flushed |
| of or relating to the stomach | Gastrointestinal |
| relating to blood | Hematologic |
| maintenance of body fluid balance | Hydration |
| measures contributing to cleanliness and good health | Hygiene |
| diminished or lacking some usual quality or level | Impaired |
| occurring in the near future, about to happen | Impending |
| impenetrable, not allowing anything to pass through | Impervious |
| to suggest without explicitly stating | Imply |
| Occurrence | Incidence |
| contamination or invasion of body tissue | Infection |
| to conclude or deduce | Infer |
| reddened, swollen, warm and often tender | Inflamed |
| to swallow | Ingest |
| to begin or put into practice | Initiate |
| so gradual as to not become apparent for a long time | Insidious |
| in place, unharmed | Intact |
| to insert a tube into something | Intubate |
| inserting or entering into a body part | Invasive |
| of or related to movement | Kinetic |
| changing rapidly and often | Labile |
| cut, tear | Laceration |
| present but not active or visible | Latent |
| on the side | Lateral |
| difficult to arouse | Lethargic |
| an indication or sign of a condition | Manifestation |
| of or relating to the muscle and skelton | Muscleskelton |
| of or relating to the nervous system | Neurologic |
| of or relating to the nervous system and the blood vessels | Neurovascular |
| substance or ingredient that provides nourishment | Nutrient |
| closed or obstructed | Occluded |
| continous | Ongoing |
| mouth | Oral |
| of the ear | Otic |
| a characteristics or constant factors, limit | Parameter |
| open | Patent |
| causing or able to cause disease | Pathogenic |
| processes, causes, and effects of a disease | Pathology |
| Located behind: in the back | Posterior |
| producing a strong effect | Potent |
| capable of occurring or likely to occur | Potential |
| preventive measure | Precaution |
| rapid, uncontrolled | Precipitous |
| to make more susceptible or more likely to occur | Predispose |
| already present | Preexisting |
| first or most significant | Primary |
| of great importance | Priority |
| the anticipated or expected course of an outcome | Prognosis |
| the underlying reason | Rationale |
| to occur again | Recur |
| relating to the kidneys | Renal |
| remaining, continuing | Residual |
| inhalation and exhalation of air | Respiration |
| to hold or keep | Retain |
| condition | Status |
| under the skin | Subcutaneous |
| under the tongue | Sublingual |
| to take in addition too or complete | Supplement |
| to stop or subdue | Supress |
| being equal or the same | Symmetric |
| and indication of a problem | Symptom |
| group of symptoms that when occurring together reflect a specific disease or disorder | Syndrome |
| of or relating to the treatment of a disease or disorder | Therapeutic |
| causing harm, poisonous | Toxic |
| crossing through the skin | Transdermal |
| transfer, such as of a disease of one person to another | Transmission |
| injury, wound | Trama |
| process used to determine the priority of treatment for patients according to the severity of a patients condition and the likelihood of benefit from the treatment | Triage |
| being or seeming to be everywhere | Ubiquitous |
| excrete or expel urine | Urinate |
| relating to blood vessels | Vascular |
| extremely harmful or severe | Virulent |
| microscopic infectious agent capable of replicating only in living cells, usually causing infectious disease | Virus |
| essential | Vital |
| amount of space occupied by a fluid | Volume |