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eupnea   show
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dyspnea   show
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tachypnea   show
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cheyne stokes   show
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apnea   show
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show fast deep respirations (normally with diabetic acidosis  
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show increased intercranial presure; short breaths with rapid respiration  
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crackles   show
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show coarse, low pitched, sonorous, rattling sounds caused by secretions in the larger air passages  
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show grating or scratchy sound similar to creaking shoe leather or opening a squeky door.  
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stridor   show
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show whistling, musical, high pitched sound produced by air being forced through a narrow pathway  
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show what the patient tells you  
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objective   show
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show abnormal accumulation of serous fluid within the peritoneal cavity  
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bruit   show
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ecchymosis   show
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show a bluish tinge to the skin, nail beds, or mucous membranes, indicating a significant decrease in oxygenation  
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show redness of the skin caused by congestion of the capillaries in the lower layers of the skin that occurs with any skin injury, infection or inflammation  
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show arms are stiffly extended, adducted, and hyperpronated with hyperextension of the legs and plantar flexion of the feet; indicates disruption of the motor fibers in the midbrain and brainstem  
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fissure   show
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show internal rotation and adduction of the arms with flexion of the elbows, wrists and fingers, resulting from neurologic injury and interruption of voluntary motor tracts; extension of the legs may also be seen  
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guaiac   show
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gurgles   show
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patent   show
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petechiae   show
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show a test to compare bone and air conduction of sound, preformed with a tuning fork  
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show body  
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