15 Terms
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Diseases
striatonigral degeneration
Health care; Diseases
A sporadic neurodegenerative disease with onset in middle-age characterized clinically by Parkinsonian features (e.g., muscle rigidity; hypokinesia; stooped posture) and hypotension. This condition ...
hyperandrogenism
Health care; Diseases
A state characterized or caused by an excessive secretion of androgens by the adrenal cortex, ovaries, or testes. The clinical significance in males is negligible, so the term is used most commonly ...
respiratory alkalosis
Health care; Diseases
A state due to excess loss of carbon dioxide from the body.
high cardiac output
Health care; Diseases
A state of elevated cardiac output. Conditions that lower peripheral vascular resistance, such as anemia, arteriovenous fistulas, thyrotoxicosis, and pregnancy, are among the most important factors ...
thinness
Health care; Diseases
A state of insufficient flesh on the body usually defined as having a body weight less than skeletal and physical standards.
brain death
Health care; Diseases
A state of prolonged irreversible cessation of all brain activity, including lower brain stem function with the complete absence of voluntary movements, responses to stimuli, brain stem reflexes, and ...
low cardiac output
Health care; Diseases
A state of subnormal or depressed cardiac output, usually seen in patients with heart failure secondary to coronary artery, hypertensive, primary myocardial, valvular, or pericardial disease.
