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A means of aiding smoking cessation in which trained counselors staffing telephone lines assess smokers needs and provide smoking-related advice, information, and pharmacological assistance.  

A tubeless (non-endoscopic) test for insufficient gastric acid secretion. The patient consumes quininium resin. If the pH of the stomach is less than 3.5, quinine is freed from the resin and absorbed. Its presence is detectable in the blood.  

A substance present in some plants, including cinchona bark, and berries.  

Visible inflow and outflow of blood from the nailbed, a physical finding in patients with aortic regurgitation when their fingernails or toenails are gently depressed by the examiner’s finger.  

A standardized test of neurological function for persons 5 years of age or older. It assesses various areas, including attention, balance, motor planning, coordination, and spatial organization.  

A colloquial term for a rapid assessment, especially of a cardiac rhythm during emergency cardiac resuscitation.  

Calcium oxide (unslaked lime). It forms calcium hydroxide when water is added to it.  

A part susceptible to keen feeling, especially the part of a finger or toe to which the nail is attached.  

A febrile illness causing a spotted fever and transmitted to humans by the bite of Ixodes ticks infected with Rickettsia australis. The disease is found principally in eastern coastal Australia and is similar to Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever in the U.S.