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Neurological
100
Largest category of primary malignant tumors
What are gliomas?
100
Nearsightedness, eyeball is too long
What is myopia?
100
Thrombus that has detached and has become mobile via the circulatory system
What is an embolus?
100
machine used to treat sleep apnea that delivers humidified room air under pressure to open airway.
What is CPAP?
100
mini strokes
What are TIA's?
200
Inability to comprehend or express language
What is aphasia?
200
Eye infection caused by chlamydia trachomatis that causes follicles to develop on the inner surface of eyelids
What is trachoma?
200
Dilation and weakening of an arterial wall.
What is an aneurysm?
200
Collapse of a lung
What is atelectasis?
200
Organization that developed the stroke scale.
What is the National Institutes of Health?
300
Flat EEG and absence of brain stem function, reflexes and responses
What is brain death?
300
Eye disorders characterized y cloudiness of the lens
What is cataracts?
300
Irregular dilated and tortuous areas of superficial or deep veins
What are varicosities?
300
Fluid in lungs impairing gas exchange and lung expansion
What is pulmonary edema?
300
Aneurysms located at the points of bifurcation on the circle of Willis.
What are berry aneurysms?
400
Displacement of brain tissue
What is herniation?
400
No pain, development of dark area in visual field. Medical emergency.
What is a detached retina?
400
Leg pain associated with muscle ischemia that initially improves with rest but as condition advances can be present at rest
What is intermittent claudication?
400
Clubbed fingers are secondary to this compensatory mechanism.
What is polycythemia?
400
Resistance to leg extension when lying with hip flexed (sign of meningtis)
What is Kernig's sign?
500
Combination of expressive and recepetive aphasia
What is global aphasia?
500
Back and forth rhythmic motion, jerky or circular motion
What is nystagmus?
500
Pediatric indicators of this illness begins with feeding difficulties, failure to gain weight and failure to meet developmental milestones
What is congestive heart failure?
500
Group of lung disorders with impaired lung expansion and total lung capacity is reduced.
What are restrictive lung disorders?
500
Develop in areas of atherosclerosis in an effort to increase perfusion in the brain.
What is collateral circulation?