What is the correct term for the digestive disease or disorder described as inflammation of the colon? Name two medical conditions associated with diabetes. What is the medical term for bloody stool? Which of the following is associated with COPD? a. Lack of mucous production resulting in excess...
An obsolete term for Henoch-Schönlein purpura. nonthrombocytopenic purpuraAllergic purpura. posttransfusion purpura Abbreviation: PTP An abnormal immune-mediated fall in the number of circulating platelets, caused by a recipient's reaction to foreign antigens on platelets received during a transfusion...
Food poisoning is a general term for health problems arising from eating contaminated food. Food may be contaminated by bacteria, viruses, environmental toxins, or toxins present within the food itself, such as the poisons in some mushrooms or certain seafood. Symptoms of food poisoning usually inv...
Most of the non-PI incidents (916) were splashes; exposures to contaminated respiratory secretions, bloody vomitus, and bites were also reported. Few of these non-PI incidents (7.5%) were reported to the occupational health service. Five hundred PIs were therefore identified. Two of these ...
The patient should be monitored for nutritional deficiencies, bleeding, changes in mental status, skin breakdown, impaired airway, and infection. lung cancer lung cancer lung cancer The deadliest form of cancer in the U.S., involving cells that originate in the bronchi or lung. The term includes...
A veterinary term, no longer used in clinical medicine, for an elevation in body temperature and paralysis occurring after a cow gives birth. SYN: SEE: paresis puerperalis monkey fever monkey fever monkey fever A colloquial and imprecise name given to Kyasanur Forest disease. SEE: Kyasanur ...
The patient should be monitored for nutritional deficiencies, bleeding, changes in mental status, skin breakdown, impaired airway, and infection. lung cancer lung cancer lung cancer The deadliest form of cancer in the U.S., involving cells that originate in the bronchi or lung. The term ...
The term folk illness denotes an illness that is not recognised by biomedical health pro- viders [12]. An ethnomedical study of health-seeking behaviour related to the folk illness kimeo can help us understand why caregivers choose to take their children for uvulectomy also in areas with ...
A veterinary term, no longer used in clinical medicine, for an elevation in body temperature and paralysis occurring after a cow gives birth. Synonym: paresis puerperalis neutropenic fever Fever associated with an abnormally low neutrophil level, usually caused by infection. This condition is treated...
ACE inhibitors (E) should be considered for long-term treatment after the acute episode has resolved. 12. Answer D This patient’s presentation is most concerning for acute mediastinitis. This is a life-threatening infection of the mediastinum with a very high mortality rate that is most ...