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  1. abnormality apparent to an examiner
    sign
  2. any change in body function or structure that causes a pt to use any of the 5 senses
    symptom
  3. evidence that a person is living
    vital sign
  4. normal body temperature
    98.6 F
  5. person who has a fondness for watching things burn or starting a fire
    pyromaniac
  6. fever
    pyret/o
  7. feverish
    pyrexia
  8. body temp below normal
    hypothermia
  9. life threatening high temperature
    hyperpyrexia
  10. that which produces a fever
    pyretogen
  11. pertains to something that produces fever
    pyretogenic
  12. works against fever
    antipyretic
  13. fever reduction
    pyretolysis
  14. w/o symptoms
    asmptomatic
  15. breath or breathing
    pne/o
  16. mechanism of breathing

    instrument for measuring breathing
    pneodynamics

    pneometer
  17. bradypnea

    dyspnea

    hyperpnea
    slow breathing

    difficult (bad) breathing

    excessive rapid breathing
  18. cyanopia

    xanthopsia

    chloropia
    blue vision

    yellow vision

    green vision
  19. erythroderma

    melanoderma
    red skin

    black (discolored) skin
  20. melanoblast

    erythroblast

    chlorocyte
    immature black cell

    immature red cell

    immature green cell
  21. melanocarcinoma
    black-pigmented malignant tumor
  22. localized condition

    generalized condition
    a small area or part of the body


    involving the whole body or many area at the same time
  23. nausea
    sickness of the stomach with a desire to vomit
  24. bile in the vomitus

    blood in the vomitus
    cholemesis

    hematemesis
  25. emetic
    pertaining to something that induces vomiting
  26. malaise
    sensation of not feeling well
  27. orexia

    anorexia
    appetite

    w/o an appetite
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ippe cards 7
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chapter 7
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