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- Advice
- Guidance or recommendations concerning prudent future action, typically given by someone regarded as knowledgeable or authoritative.
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- Antibody
- A blood protein produced in response to and counteracting a specific antigen.
- Asthma
- A respiratory condition marked by spasms in the bronchi of the lungs, causing difficulty in breathing. It usually results from an allergic reaction or other forms of hypersensitivity.
- Bandage
- A strip of cloth or other material used to bind up a wound, sore, sprain, etc.
- Blood
- The red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins of humans and other vertebrate animals, carrying oxygen to and carbon dioxide from the tissues of the body.
- blood pressure monitor
- A device used to measure blood pressure, composed of an inflatable cuff to restrict blood flow, and a mercury or mechanical manometer to measure the pressure. This device is also called a sphygmomanometer.
- Bloodstream
- The blood circulating through the body of a person or animal.
- Bone
- Any of the pieces of hard, whitish tissue making up the skeleton in humans and other vertebrates.
- Brain damage
- An injury to the brain that impairs its functions, esp. permanently.
- Care
- Protection; charge.
- Chart
- A sheet listing information in tabular form.
- Checkup
- A thorough examination, esp. a medical or dental one.
- Clinical
- Pertaining to a medical clinic.
- Diabetes
- Any of several disorders characterized by increased urine production.
- Diagnosis
- The identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms.
- Disease
- A disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, esp. one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.
- Drugs
- A chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being.
- Emergency care
- Life-saving measures in life-threatening situations.
- H1N1
- A type of highly contagious respiratory disease that causes symptoms similar to those of the seasonal influenza in people.
- Health
- The state of being free from illness or injury.
- Home care
- Pertaining to, or designating care, especially medical care, given or received at home: a member of the hospital's home-care staff.
- Hospital
- An institution in which sick or injured people are given medical or surgical treatment.
- Hypoglycemia
- Deficiency of glucose in the bloodstream.
- Immune system
- A system (including the thymus and bone marrow and lymphoid tissues) that protects the body from foreign substances and pathogenic organisms by producing the immune response.
- Infection
- An infecting with germs of disease, as through the medium of infected insects, air, water, or clothing.
- Infirmary
- A place in a large institution for the care of those who are ill.
- Intravenous
- Administered into a vein or veins.
- Masks
- A covering for all or part of the face to prevent infection.
- Morphine
- The most important narcotic and addictive principle of opium, obtained by extraction and crystallization and used chiefly in medicine as a pain reliever and sedative.
- Nurse
- A person formally educated and trained in the care of the sick or infirm.
- Palliative care
- An area of healthcare that focuses on relieving and preventing the suffering of patients.
- Patience
- The quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.
- Patient
- A person who is under medical care or treatment.
- Pharmacy
- A store that sells drugs.
- Prescription
- A written direction by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation of a medicine or remedy to be used by a particular patient.
- Procedure
- A particular course or mode of action
- Stethoscope
- A medical instrument for listening to the action of someone's heart or breathing, typically having a small disk-shaped resonator that is placed against the chest and two tubes connected to earpieces.
- Stretcher
- A frame with two poles and a long piece of canvas slung between them, used for carrying sick, injured, or dead people, or a similar device on wheels, adapted for use in ambulances and hospitals.
- Surgery
- The treatment of injuries or disorders of the body by incision or manipulation, with instruments.
- Syringe
- A small device consisting of a glass, metal, or hard rubber tube, narrowed at its outlet, and fitted with either a piston or a rubber bulb for drawing in a quantity of fluid or for ejecting fluid in a stream, for cleaning wounds, injecting fluids into the body, etc.
- Thermometer
- An instrument for measuring somebody's temperature.
- Treatment
- Management in the application of medicines, surgery, etc.
- Vaccination
- Taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease.
- Vaccine
- A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.
- Veins
- Any of the tubes forming part of the blood circulation system of the body, carrying in most cases oxygen-depleted blood toward the heart.
- Wheelchair
- A chair built on wheels for an invalid or disabled person, pushed by another person or propelled by the occupant, or motorized.
- Wound
- An injury to living tissue caused by a cut, blow, or other impact, typically one in which the skin is cut or broken.
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