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UPDATE) QS & AS| GRADE A| 100%
CORRECT (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Dyspepsia - ANS ✓indigestion; inability to digest or difficulty in digesting food
Dysphagia - ANS ✓difficulty in swallowing
Dysphasia - ANS ✓loss of or deficiency in the power to use or understand
language as a result of injury to or disease of the brain
Dystrophy - ANS ✓a condition produced by faulty nutrition; any myogenic
atrophy
Ecchymosis - ANS ✓bruise; the escape of blood into the tissues from ruptured
blood vessels marked by a livid black and blue or purple spot or area
Edema - ANS ✓an abnormal excess accumulation of serous fluid in connective
tissue or in a serous cavity; also called dropsy
Edentulous - ANS ✓without teeth
Effusion - ANS ✓the escape of fluid from anatomical vessels by rupture or
exudation
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Emesis - ANS ✓vomiting; an act or instance of disgorging the contents of the
stomach through the mouth
Emetic - ANS ✓substance that induces vomiting
Endemic - ANS ✓restricted or peculiar to a locality or region
Enuresis - ANS ✓an involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine
Episiotomy - ANS ✓surgical enlargement of the vulval orifice for obstetrical
purposes during parturition
Epistaxis - ANS ✓nosebleed
Eructation - ANS ✓an act or instance of belching
Erythema - ANS ✓abnormal redness of the skin due to capillary congestion
Etiology - ANS ✓the study of the cause of disease
Eupnea - ANS ✓normal respiration
Exacerbation - ANS ✓to cause a disease or its symptoms to become more sever
Expectorant - ANS ✓an agent that promotes the discharge or expulsion of
mucus from the respiratory tract
Extubate - ANS ✓to remove a tube especially from the larynx after intubation;
sometimes called detubation
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Febrile - ANS ✓with fever
Fissure - ANS ✓a groove or crack-like sore; normal folds in the brain
Fistula - ANS ✓an abnormal passage from an internal organ to the body surface
or between two internal organs
Flatus - ANS ✓gas in the stomach or intestines that is expelled through the anus
Fontanelle - ANS ✓soft spot between the skull bones of an infant
Foramen - ANS ✓an opening in a bone through which blood vessels, nerves, and
ligaments pass
Fossa - ANS ✓a furrow or shallow depression
Frenum - ANS ✓a fold of mucous membrane that connects two parts, one more
or less movable, and serves to check the movement of this part
Fundus - ANS ✓1)the larger part, base, or body of a hollow organ or 2) the
portion of an organ most remote from its opening
Furuncle - ANS ✓a localized skin infection originating in a gland or hair follicle
Gait - ANS ✓manner of walking
Glioma - ANS ✓a sarcoma of neuroglial origin; neoplasm or a tumour composed
of neuroglia cells
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