Category: C

Column shaped cells that line the’ airways. The cilia on these cells are responsible for moving mucus up the airways to clean lungs of particulate matter.    

Sweeping movements of cilia which sweep mucus and other debris out of the respiratory system into the throat.  

A commercial preparation of lithium citrate.  

The process of recording ideas in memory that permits a number of items to be packed into a larger unit. A strategy for improving memory and learning, in which information is arranged into manageable clusters (“chunks”) of data.  

In learning theory, an unrelated bit of information stored in a person’s short-term memory, chunking. In neurology, informatics, and psychology, a single unit of memory. A chunk is typically a number, name, fact, or other discrete informational element.  

Arranged in order of occurrence. For example, age and maturity. Occurring in natural sequence according to time.  

A psychotic person who had earlier deteriorated over a long period of time and who usually has been hospitalized for more than 2 years, schizophrenia.  

A slow, progressive interruption of the airflow within the lungs due to pulmonary emphysema and chronic bronchitis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Dyspnea, a prevalent respiratory ailment, is characterized by the challenging and progressively arduous process of breathing, resulting in compromised gas exchange. This condition impedes the normal flow of air into and out of the…

A category of anemias of a variety of causes and characterized by larger than normal red blood cells among others, pernicious anemia.