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Abrupt - Answer Sudden
Abstain - Answer To voluntarily refrain from something
Access - Answer A means to obtain entry or a means of approach
Accountable - Answer Responsive
Acute - Answer Sharp, Servere, and Intense
Adequate - Answer Fully sufficient, enough
Adhere - Answer To hold fast or stick together
Adverse - Answer Undesired, possibly harmful
Aegis - Answer Authority, Responsibility
Affect - Answer Appearance of observable emotions
Annual - Answer Every year
Anterior - Answer Toward the front plane of the body
Anticipatory - Answer Of, Showing, or Expressing Anticipation
Ambivalence - Answer Unsure, indecisive
Apply - Answer To place, put on, or spread something
Assured - Answer To state with confidence
Audible - Answer Able to be heard
Bilateral - Answer Present on both sides
Cast - Answer Hard protective device applied to protect a broken bone while the bone heals
Cease - Answer Come to an end or bring to an end
Chronology - Answer Organized by dates or times of events
Communicability - Answer Easily spread
Compensatory - Answer To offset or make up for something
Complication - Answer An undesired problem that is the result of some other event.
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Comply - Answer Do as directed
Comprehensive - Answer Through
Concave - Answer Rounded inward
Concept - Answer Idea, General notion
Consent - Answer To permit or approve
Concise - Answer Brief, to the point
Consistency - Answer How thick or thin a fluid is
Constrict - Answer Dependent
Contour - Answer Shape or outline of a shape
Contract - Answer To draw together, to reduce in size
Contraindication - Answer A reason why something is not advisable or why it should be done
Defecate - Answer Expel a bowel movement
Depress - Answer Press downward
Depth - Answer Downward measurement from a surface
Deteriorating - Answer Worsening
Device - Answer Tool or piece of equipment
Diameter - Answer The distance across the center of an object
Dilate - Answer to enlarge or expand
Dilute - Answer To make a liquid less concentrated
Discrete - Answer Distinct, Separate
Distal - Answer Away from the center
Distended - Answer Enlarge or expanded form pressure
Efface - Answer To wipe out or do away with
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Elevate - Answer To lift up or place in a high position
Empathy - Answer Understanding another's situation, feelings or motives
Endocytosis - Answer Cellular ingestion
Endogenous - Answer Produced within the body
Equilibrium - Answer Equal balance
Exacerbate - Answer To make worse or more severe
Excess - Answer More than what is needed or usual
Exogenous - Answer Produced outside the body
Expand - Answer To increase in size or amount
Expedite - Answer To speed up or hasten
Exposure - Answer Come in contact with
Exploratory - Answer Pertaining to exploration
External - Answer Located outside the body
Fatal - Answer Resulting in death
fatigue - Answer Extremely tired , exhausted
Feasible - Answer Can be done or accomplished
Flaccid - Answer Limp or lacking tone
Flexion - Answer The act of bending a limb
Flushed - Answer Reddened or ruddy apperance
Gaping - Answer Wide open
Gender - Answer Sex of an individual, as in male or female
Hierarchy - Answer Ranking one above another
Hydration - Answer Maintenance of body fluid balance
Hygiene - Answer Measure contributing to cleanliness and good health
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Impaired - Answer Diminished or lacking some usual quality or level
Impending - Answer Likely to occur soon
Impervious - Answer Not permitting penetration or passage
Imply - Answer To express indirectly
Incidence - Answer Occurrence
Infamy - Answer Notorious, or of bad reputation
Inferior - Answer Lower in place or position; closer to the bottom or base
Inflamed - Answer Redden,swollen, warm, and often tender
Ingest - Answer To swallow for digestion
Initiate - Answer To begin or put into practice
Insidious - Answer So gradual as to not become apparent for a long time
intact - Answer In place, unharmed
Internal - Answer Located within the body
Invasive - Answer Inserting or entering into a body part
Jaundice - Answer Yellow discoloration of the skin and eyes
Kinetic - Answer Pertaining to motion
Labile - Answer Changing rapidly and often, unstable
Latent - Answer Present , but not active or visible
Lethargic - Answer Difficult to arouse
Manifestation - Answer An indication or sign of condition
Nutrient - Answer Something that provides nourishment
Occluded - Answer Closed or obstructed
Ominous - Answer Threaten
Ongoing - Answer Continuous
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Oral - Answer Given through or affecting the mouth
Ostracize - Answer Banish, exclude
Overt - Answer Obvious, easily observed
Parameter - Answer A characteristic or constant factor
Paroxysmal - Answer Beginning suddenly or abruptly
Patent - Answer Open
Pigmentation - Answer Skin color
Potent - Answer Producing a strong effect
Potential - Answer Capable of occurring or likely to occur
Precaution - Answer Preventive measure
Precipitous - Answer Rapid, uncontrolled
Predispose - Answer To make more susceptible or more likely to occur
Preexisting - Answer Already Present
Preferred - Answer Desired
Primary - Answer First or most significant
Priority - Answer Of great importance
Prognosis - Answer The anticipated or expected course or outcome
Rationale - Answer The underlying reason
Recessive - Answer Not dominant
Recur - Answer To occur again
Residual - Answer The amount left over
Restrict - Answer To limit
Retain - Answer To hold or keep
Site - Answer Location
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Status - Answer Condition
Strict - Answer Stringent, exact, and complete
Supplement - Answer Take in addition to or to complete
Suppress - Answer To stop or subdue
Symmetrical - Answer Being equal to the same
Symptom - Answer An indication of a problem
Than - Answer A word used for comparison
Ubiquitous - Answer Widespread
Untoward - Answer Adverse or negative
Urinate - Answer Excrete or expel urine
Verbal - Answer Spoken, using words
Verrigo - Answer A sense of motion, dizzy
Virulence - Answer The rapid rate a disease can multiply
Vital - Answer Essential
Void - Answer Excrete or expel urine
Volume - Answer Amount of space taken by a fluid
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