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bradycardia n. 5< prec. + Gr kardia, HEART6 abnormally slow heartbeat: below 60 beats per minute for an adult
But what a lot of work it means for ER personnel.
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Has many meanings. But you should see how many pages are devoted to it in biochemistry. I remember a friend who was worried about "acid" in his diet. It would have taken me a week to help him understand the stupidity of the quackery he believed.
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bunion n. 5< dial. (E Anglian) bunny < ME boni, swelling < OFr buigne: see BUN16 an inflammation and swelling of the bursa at the base of the big toe, with a thickening of the skin
All kinds of sites about this on Internet. I think it was far more common fifty years ago when many people wore improper shoes, particularly leather ones.
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Permit me to heresify here for a moment.
I would propose that the "normal" range of heartbeat is not 60-100 as usually practiced but rather 50 to 90.
Not that people can't be healthy outside the range (or get in trouble inside the range) but we would generally worry less if that slower range were accepted...
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caliginous adj. 5L caliginosus < caligo, darkness, gloom: for IE base see COLUMBARIUM6 [Archaic] dark; obscure
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cassowary n., pl. 3war#ies 5Malay kasuarj6 any of a family (Casuariidae) of large, flightless birds of Australia and New Guinea with a brightly colored, featherless neck and head: with the larger emus, they form a unique order (Casuariiformes) distinct from rheas and ostriches
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celiac adj. 5L coeliacus < Gr koiliakos < koilia: see 3COELE6 of or in the abdominal cavity
Coeliac disease is a condition caused by an inability to digest gluten, which often results in bowel symptoms, weight loss or failure to gain weight, and lack of certain vitamins and minerals with consequential problems such as anaemia and osteoporosis.
Symptoms
Diarrhoea, and bulky, smelly motions that float often occur in coeliac disease. This results in less nutrients being absorbed from the bowel, and thus weight loss or failure to grow and put on weight in children. Sufferers sometimes have a swollen or bloated belly.
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cenogenesis n. 5ceno3 (< Gr kainos: see 3CENE) + 3GENESIS6 the development of structures in the embryonic or larval stage of an organism that are adaptive and do not appear in the evolutionary history of its group: cf. PALINGENESIS ce#no[ge[net$ic 73j! net4ik8 adj.
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ciguatera n. 5AmSp < cigua, a marine snail6 a type of food poisoning with severe gastrointestinal and neurological symptoms, caused by eating contaminated fish
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cirrhosis n., pl. 3ses# 73scz#8 5ModL < Gr kirrhos, tawny + 3OSIS: so named by R. T. H. La<nnec (1781-1826), Fr physician, because of the orange-yellow appearance of the diseased liver6 a degenerative disease in an organ of the body, esp. the liver, marked by excess formation of connective tissue and, usually, subsequent painful swelling cir[rhot$ic 73r9t4ik8 adj.
A nasty penalty for having consumed too much liquour, and too little food. Especially booze on an empty stomach.
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