Category: D

An intermittent positive pressure breathing unit used to assist or control ventilation with a valve connected to an oxygen source that opens in response to a person’s inspiratory effort and inflates the lungs until a preset pressure limit is reached. This unit is not acceptable on ambulances unless a manual control is provided.  

A strategy for preventing drug abuse by reducing or eliminating the actual demand, desire, or need for various drug substances.  

In experimentation, the cues that tell a subject what the experimenter expects of him or her.  

A barbiturate commercial preparation.  

An unrealistic sense of personal importance or power.  

Unjustified belief that one is the target of personal attack or injury, delusion.  

The unfounded conviction that one’s mate is unfaithful. The person may collect small bits of evidence to justify the delusion.  

The large shoulder muscle. Large, thick, triangular muscle that covers the shoulder and is involved in arm movements. Muscle that abducts the upper arm. The large triangular muscle that covers the shoulder joint. The deltoid muscle is referred to by its anterior, middle, and posterior fibers and is controlled by the axillary nerve.  

Brain waves of less than four cycles per second; the dominant pattern in a sleeping adult. Brain wave frequency of high voltage that is characteristic of dreamless, deep sleep from which an individual is not easily aroused; also called delta wave. It is the slowest of the four brainwave patterns. Wave pattern on an electroencephalogram…

Characterized by excessive drinking of alcohol, increased tolerance, withdrawal syndrome, craving, but with the ability to limit the amount within social standards during drinking episodes.