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What is Myocardial Infarction?
Destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle
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What is Contusion?
A region of injured tissue or skin in which blood capillaries have been ruptured; a bruise.
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What is Visceral Pleura?
Thin membrane that surrounds lungs, provides lubrication.
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What is an Articulation?
A joint; a point of contact between bone; cartilage; and bones, or teeth and bones
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What is a Mouth/
Oral or buccal cavity
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What is an Anemia?
Deficiency of rbc’s or of hemoglobin in the blood, resulting in pallor and weakness
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What is Strain?
Overstretching or overexertion of a muscle
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What is Exhalation?
When the diaphragm squishes lungs making them smaller, causing high air pressure in lungs, low air pressure outside lungs.
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What is an Epicondyle?
A projection on a bone above a condyle serving for the attachment of muscles and ligaments
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What is a Stomach?
The mixing and holding resevoir.
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What is an Aneurysm?
Excessive localized enlargement of an artery caused by a weakening of the artery wall
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What is Dislocation?
Displacement of a bone from a joint with tearing of ligaments, tendons, and articular capsules
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What is Pneumothorax?
A collapsed lung.
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What is a Spine?
A series of vertebrae extending from the skull to the small of the back, enclosing the spinal cord
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What is Rugae?
Bumps, or ridges and valleys within the stomach.
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What is Atherosclerosis?
Disease of the arteries characterized by the deposition of plaques of fatty material on their inner walls
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What is Tenosynovitis?
Inflammation and swelling of a tendon, often caused by repetitive movements
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What is Inhalation?
When the diaphragm flattens out, makes more space in lungs, causing a low air pressure inside lungs, high pressure outside.
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What is Foramen?
A passage or opening; a communication between two cavities of an organ, or a hole in a bone for passage of vessels or nerves
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What is Absorptive Cells?
A type of cell that absorbs nutrients from chyme.
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What is Bradycardia?
An abnormally slow heart rate
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What is Myositis?
Inflammation and degeneration of muscle tissue
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What is Pleurisy?
The inflammation of the Visceral Pleura
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What is a Condyle?
A round protuberance at the end of some bones, forming an articulation with another bone
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What is Intestinal Glands?
A type of gland that secretes intestinal juice; a bacterial killing enzyme.
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