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What is pyrexia?
A fever or body temperature above the normal range
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What is febrile?
A person who has pyrexia
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What is afebrile?
A person with a normal body temperature
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What is hypothermia?
A body temperature below 35 degrees C
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What is hyperthermia?
A body temperature above 37.5 degrees C
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What is axillary?
Under the arm
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What is normotensive?
Normal blood pressure
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What is hypertensive?
High blood pressure above 140 systolic and 90 diastolic
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What is hypotensive?
Low blood pressure below 90 systolic
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What is dysphagia?
Trouble swallowing
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What is aspiration?
Where food makes its way into the lungs instead of the oesophagus
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What is dehydration?
A loss or deficiency of water, salts and electrolytes that are essential for body function
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What is oedema?
An excessive amount of fluid in the cells or tissues of the body causing swelling
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What is skin turgor?
Referring to the skin’s elasticity, measured by monitoring the amount of time it takes for the skin on the forearm to return to position after being released
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What is diuresis?
Diluted urine
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What is polyuria?
Many urine (excessive)
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What is oliguria?
A low amount of urine
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What is anuria?
No urine
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What is nocturia?
Urinating at night
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What is haematuria?
Blood in the urine
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What is dysuria?
Difficult or painful urination
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What is enuresis?
Involuntary urination beyond developmental stages
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What is a neurogenic bladder?
Inability to perceive bladder fullness or control urinary sphincters
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What is flatus/flatulence?
Passing wind
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What is steatorrhoea?
Fatty stools
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What is malaena?
Blood in the stool
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What is encopresis?
Faecal incontinence
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What is a colostomy?
An opening made to the colon (formed stool)
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What is ileostomy?
An opening into the ileum (watery stool)
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What is a stoma?
An artificial opening, sometimes made with a portion of the small or large intestine
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What are haemorrhoids?
Occurs when someone strains too hard to pass stool and the veins bulge out of the anus
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