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⩥ Dyspnea. Answer: Problems with breathing
⩥ Dysuria. Answer: Painful urination
⩥ Ecchymosis. Answer: A bruise
⩥ Edema. Answer: Swelling
⩥ Emesis. Answer: Vomiting
⩥ Epistaxis. Answer: Nose bleed
⩥ Erythema/Erythematous. Answer: Redness/Red
⩥ Febrile. Answer: Elevated body temperature, fever, indicative of
infection
⩥ Grossly. Answer: Obviously; a lot; wholly
,⩥ Hematemesis. Answer: Very large amounts of blood in the vomit
⩥ Hematuria. Answer: Very large amounts of blood in the urine
⩥ Hemoptysis. Answer: Coughing up very large amounts of blood
⩥ Hemorrhage. Answer: Excessive or profuse bleeding
⩥ hepatomegaly. Answer: Enlarged liver
⩥ Hypertension. Answer: High blood pressure
⩥ Hypotension. Answer: Low blood pressure
⩥ Hypoxia. Answer: Low oxygen saturation of the body, not enough
oxygen in the blood
⩥ Infarct. Answer: Area of dead tissue after a lack of blood supply
⩥ Inferior. Answer: Lower in the body, farther from the head
,⩥ Ischemia. Answer: Lack of blood supply
⩥ Laceration. Answer: Splitting of the skin due to trauma (a cut due to
something sharp)
⩥ Lateral. Answer: Farther from the midline (a line that can be traced
from nose to belly-button)
⩥ Medial. Answer: Nearer to the midline
⩥ Melena. Answer: Black tarry stool
⩥ Myocardial Infarction (MI). Answer: Death of cardiac muscle due to
ischemia
⩥ Myalgia. Answer: Muscular pain
⩥ Oriented x 3. Answer: Oriented to person, place, and time
⩥ Pallor. Answer: Pale skin
⩥ Posterior/Dorsal. Answer: Rear or backside of the body
, ⩥ Proximal. Answer: Nearer to the trunk of the body
⩥ Pruritic. Answer: Itchy
⩥ Pulmonary Embolism (PE). Answer: Blocking of a pulmonary artery
due to a blood clot
⩥ Purulent. Answer: Pus-like
⩥ Rales. Answer: Crackles; we crackling noise in lungs
⩥ Rhinorrhea. Answer: Clear nasal discharge, "runny nose"
⩥ Rhonchi. Answer: Rattling noise of mucous in the lungs
⩥ Sepsis. Answer: Dangerous infection of the blood
⩥ STEMI. Answer: ST elevation MI, real-time ongoing death of heart
tissue due to ischemia
⩥ Superior. Answer: Higher on the body, nearer to the head