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| A physician trained and experienced in hematology, that this, skilled in performing diagnostic examination of blood and bone marrow, or in treatment of such diseases, or both. |
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| Pulmonologist/Pulmonology |
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An individual skilled in pulmonology.
The branch of medicine that deals with diseases of the respiratory system. The science concerned with the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the lungs. |
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| Cardiologist - Cardiology |
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A physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the heart.
The medical field dedicated to diagnosing and treatment diseases of the heart and cardiovascular system. |
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The determination of the nature of a disease
Medical Diagnosis. Diagnosis based on information from sources such as findings from a physical examination, interview with the patient or family or both, medical history of the patient and family and clinical findings as reported by laboratory tests and radiological studies. |
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| Pneumonia is an infection of the lung that can be caused by nearly any class of organism known to cause human infections. These include bacteria, amoebae, viruses, fungi and parasites. In the US pneumonia is the sixth most common disease leading to death. Pneumonia is also the most common fatal infection acquired by already hospitalized patients. |
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A condition in which there is reduced delivery of oxygen to the tissues; it is not actually a disease but rather a symptom of any of numerous different disorders and other conditions. The WHO has defined anemia as a hemoglobin concentration below 7.5mmol/L in women and below 8.1mmol/L in men. Some types of anemia are named for the factors causing them: poor diet (nutritional anemia), excessive blood loss (hemmorrhagic anemia), congential defects of hemoglobin (hypochromic anemia), exposure to industrial poisons, diseases of the bone marrow (aplastic anemia and hypoplastic anemia), or any disorder that upsets the balance between blood loss through bleeding or destruction of blood cells and production of blood cells. |
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| Accumulation of fluid in the space between the membrane encasing the lung and that lining the thoracic cavity. The normal pleural space contains only a small amount of fluid to prevent friction as the lung expands and deflates. If, however, there is a disturbance in either the production of this fluid or its removal, the fluid accumulates and threatens collapse of the lung. In extreme cases there is total collapse of the lung and mediastinal shift. |
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| Movement of the tissues and organs of the omediastinum back and forth with each movement of air into and out of the open sucking wound in the thoracic cavity. The condition can produce serious impairment of cardiopulmonary fuction and it fatal if not treated prompty. Symptoms are similar to those of mediastinal shift. |
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Breathlessness of shortness of breath; labored or difficult breathing. It is a sign of a variety of disorders and is primarily an indication of inadequate ventiliation or of insufficient amounts of oxygen in the circulating blood.
Dyspnea can be symptomatic of a variety of disorders, both acute and chronic. |
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| The soft, brownish yellow, waxy secretion (a modified sebum) of the ceruminous glands of the external auditory canal. |
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| An inadequate supply of blood to a part of the body, caused by partial or total blockage of an artery. |
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| A chronic disease of the heart muscle (myocardium), in which the muscle is abnormally enlarged, thickened, and/or stiffened. The weakened heart muscle loses the ability to pump blood effectively, resulting in irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias) and possibly even heart failure. |
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| Dementia is a loss of mental ability severe enough to interfere with normal activities of daily living, lasting more than six months, not present since birth, and not associated witha loss or alternation of consciousness. |
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| Delirium is a state of mental confusion that develops quickly and usually fluctuates in intensity. Delirium is a syndrome, or group of symptoms, caused by a distrubance in the normal functioning of the brain. The delirious patient has a reduced awareness of and reponsiveness to the environment, which may by manifested as disorientation, incoherence, and memory disturbance. Delirium is often marked by hallucations, delusions and a dream-like state. |
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| The process of transferring whole blood or blood components from one person (donor) to another (recipient). Transfusions are given to restore lost blood, to improve clotting time, and to improve the ability of the blood to deliver oxygen to the body's tissues. |
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| Diureses - Pressure Diureses |
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Excretion of urine; commonly denotes production of unusally large volumes of urine.
Increased urinary excretion of water when arterial presure increases, a compensatory mehcanism to maintain blood pressure within the normal range.
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| Mucous secretion from the lung, bronchi, and trachea that is ejected through the mouth, in contract to saliva, which is the secretion of the salivary glands. Called also expectoration. |
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A condition of abnormally large fluid volume in the circulatory system or in tissues between the body's cells. Normally the body maintains a balanace of bluid in tissues by ensuring that the same amount of water entering the body also leaves it. The circulatory system transports fluid within the body via its network of blood vessels. The fluid, which contains oxygen and nutrients needed by the cells, moves the walls of the blood vessells into the body's tissues. AFter its nutrients are used up, fluid moves back into the blood vessels and returns to the heart. The lymphatic system also abords and transports this fluid. In edema, either too much fluid moves from the blood vessels into the tissues, r not enough fluid moves from the tissues back into the blood vessels. This fluid imbalance can cause mild to severe swelling in one or more parts of the body. |
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| A device for studying the interior of the eyeball through the pupil. |
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| Having two sides; pertaining to both sides. |
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