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✔✔Diabetic - ✔✔Insufficient insulin production
✔✔diathermy - ✔✔generation of heat in body tissues through high-frequency electric
current
✔✔direct current - ✔✔a flow of electric charge in only one direction
✔✔disease - ✔✔illness characterized by a recognizable set of signs and symptoms
✔✔Disinfection - ✔✔destroying harmful microorganisms- chemical or physical agent
that is applied to inanimate objects
✔✔Distorted hair follicle - ✔✔Follicle that may have been damaged from a previous
even or naturally bent out of shape
✔✔dry heat sterilization - ✔✔Forced air oven-type device to sterilize items by exposure
to high temperatures
✔✔Dysmenorrhea - ✔✔Painful menstruation
✔✔eccrine sweat glands - ✔✔secrete sweat that cools body
✔✔Ecchymosis - ✔✔A bruise-superficial bleeding under the skin
✔✔eczema - ✔✔Superficial inflammatory process involving the epidermis - causes crust
and pigment changes
✔✔Edema - ✔✔Abnormal accumulation of fluid in cells - causes swelling
✔✔electrocoagulation - ✔✔Coagulation of tissue by means of a high frequency
electrical current
✔✔Electrode - ✔✔Either pole or terminal of an electric cell
✔✔electrodesiccation - ✔✔Minor surgery performed with an electrode- dehydration of
tissue by use of frequency current which produces heat
✔✔Electroepilation - ✔✔Removal of hair from body by application of electrical current
✔✔Electroepilator - ✔✔Device that removes hair from body by application of an
electrical current
, ✔✔electrology - ✔✔Procedure using a needle with electrolysis, thermolysis, or blended
currents to remove hair
✔✔Electrolytic - ✔✔Pertaining to electrolysis or an electrolyte
✔✔Electron - ✔✔A negatively charged particle
✔✔electrosurgery - ✔✔surgery performed with high-frequency electric current
✔✔endocarditis - ✔✔inflammation or infection of the inner lining of the heart
✔✔endocrine system - ✔✔Consists of glands that control many of the body's activities
by producing hormones which flow through bloodstream
✔✔Endocrinologist - ✔✔Physician skilled in endocrinology
✔✔endometriosis - ✔✔condition in which endometrium cells appear and grow outside
the uterus in pelvic cavity
✔✔ Archard-Theirs Syndrome - ✔✔hormonal disorder seen in postmenopausal women
with diabetes - growth of body hair in masculine distribution
✔✔Acne - ✔✔inflammatory disease of the skin involving the sebaceous glands and hair
follicles
✔✔ACTH (adrenocorticotropic hormone) - ✔✔Stimulates adrenal cortex to release
glucocorticoids (cortisol)
✔✔Adipose - ✔✔Pertaining to fat
✔✔adrenal glands - ✔✔Paired glands above the kidney-two parts the cortex and
medulla. Secretes cortisol and androgens
✔✔adrenal virilism - ✔✔development of male secondary sexual characteristics in a
female- excessive production of androgenic hormones
✔✔AIDS - ✔✔Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
✔✔allergy - ✔✔abnormal hypersensitivity acquired by exposure to an antigen
✔✔alopecia - ✔✔baldness or hair loss, that may be in patches or total