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VARIOUS DEFINITIONS CHP 1-6 STUDY GUIDE

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show ROPEIIKE STRANDS ATTACHED TO THE TRICUSPID AND MITRAL HEART VALVES AND WALLS OF THE VENTRICLES KEEPING THE VALVES FIRMLY SEALED  
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VARICOSE VEIN   show
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show COMBINING FORM: VEN/O MEANING VEIN CARRY BLOOD TO THE HEART LOW OXYGEN HAVE VALVES THAT KEEP BLOOD FLOWING IN ONE DIRECTION *EXCLUDES THE PULMONARY VEINS  
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show COMBINING FORM: ARTERI/O CARRY BLOOD AWAY FROM THE HEART HIGHLY OXYGENATED BLOOD *EXCEPT PULMONARY ARTERY  
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show ANY OF THE 4 LARGE VEINS THAT CARRY OXYGENATED BLOOD FROM THE LUNGS TO THE LEFT ATRIUM OF THE HEART  
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show THE LARGE ARTERY ORIGINATING FOM THE SUPERIOR SURFACE OF THE RIGHT VENTRICLE THAT CARRIES DEOXYGENATED BLOOD TO THE LUNGS FOR OXYGENATION.  
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show "BALOONING ARTERY" - AREA OF DILATION AND WEAKNESS IN THE WALL OF AN ARTERY  
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BLOOD PRESSURE   show
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show ORGAN IN THE LEFT UPPER PART OF THE ABDOMINOPELVIC CAVITY. PART OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM. STORES WHOLE BLOOD. RECYCLES WHITE BLOOD CELLS.  
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show BODY IS STANDING ERECT, HEAD IS UP WITH EYES LOOKING FORWARD, ARMS ARE BY THE SIDES WITH PALMS FACING FORWARD AND LEGS ARE STRAIGHT WITH FEET FLAT ON THE GROUND AND TOES FACING FORWARD  
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show CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE. CHRONIC BRONCHITIS OR EMPHYSEMA - AVEOLI IN THE LUNGS GET DAMAGED AND STRETCHED OUT CAUSING PROBLEMS BREATHING OUT. TREATED WITH PREDNISONE  
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CYSTIC FIBROSIS   show
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show AN INFECTION THAT INFLAMES THE AIR SACS IN ONE OR BOTH LUNGS ASPIRATION - when food, saliva, liquids, or vomit is breathed into the lungs BACTERIAL, DOUBLE, BRONCHIAL-inflammation and infection in the alveoli LOBAR, VIRAL AND WALKING PNEUMONIA  
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show CULTURE IS GROWN IN A PETRIE DISH / SENSITIVITY INTRODUCES ANTIBIOTICS TO FIND WHICH ONE STOPS OR SLOWS GROWTH  
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THYMUS   show
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show CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE: HEART CAN'T PUMP ENOUGH BLOOD. BLOOD PUSHES BACKWARD INTO THE SYSTEM AND PATIENT CAN'T BREATHE.  
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show MY/0- MUSCLE CARDI/O- HEART -AL-PERTAINING TO INFARCT/O-TISSUE DEATH -TION-PROCESS OR CONDITION HEART ATTACK  
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ACUTE   show
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SUBACUTE   show
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CHRONIC   show
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EXACERBATION   show
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show TEMPORARY IMPROVEMENT  
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show AN ABNORMAL CONDITION THAT ARISES BECAUSE OF THE ORIGINAL DISEASE AND REMAINS AFTER THE ORIGINAL DISEASE HAS RESOLVED  
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