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| a chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning. |
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| A disorder caused by myocardial hypoxia, which compromises the heart's ability to efficiently pump blood |
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| a membranous partition between two body cavities or two parts of an organ, especially that between the lungs. |
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| a physician trained in hematology |
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| a physician trained in the branch of medicine that deals with diseases and abnormalities of the heart. |
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| the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms |
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| of, done by, or obtained by ophthalmoscopic examination of the fundus of the eye |
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| an exudation of fluid from the blood or lymph into a pleural cavity |
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| an acute disease that is marked by inflammation of lung tissue accompanied by infiltration of alveoli and often bronchioles with white blood cells (as neutrophils) and fibrinous exudate |
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| a condition in which the blood is deficient in red blood cells, in hemoglobin, or in total volume |
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| the process of transfusing blood into a vein or artery |
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| a mental disturbance characterized by confusion, disordered speech, and hallucinations |
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| a condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body. |
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| abbreviation for blood pressure |
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| a specialist in pulmonology |
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| abbreviation for cardiopulmonary resuscitation |
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| heart failure in which the heart is unable to maintain adequate circulation of blood in the tissues of the body or to pump out the venous blood returned to it by the venous circulation |
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| an irregular and often rapid heart rate that can increase your risk of stroke, heart failure and other heart-related complications |
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| relating to the anatomy, functions, and organic disorders of nerves and the nervous system: |
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