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The medical term that refers to a heart abnormality present at birth is:

The medical term that means abnormally high blood pressure is _____.

Ms. Tierney arrives in the Emergency Department with a burn that extends throughout the dermis and epidermis. It is hard, dry, and leathery with a brown to black color, and in one area it seems to have extended into the subcutaneous fat layer. Ms. Tierney’s burn is most likely a ___ burn.

_____ are used to prevent blood from clotting, while _____ agents are prescribed to dissolve existing blood clots.

Which pathologic condition is shown in the image below?

Select the group of word parts you would use to build the name of Steve’s skin condition, an absence of normal pigmentation at birth caused by a defect in melanin precursors.

In response to a chilly environment, emotional stimulus, or irritation, _____ muscles cause the hair of the skin to stand erect.

Tomas’s baldness, or alopecia, is just one form of ___.

Like many in his second-grade class, Eli is sent home from school with a case of head lice, or ___.

The death of areas of damaged or diseased tissue that are surrounded by healthy tissue is called: