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An instrument for drawing in a plug through the nostril and mouth to control epistaxis.  

A papillary duct of the kidney; the union of several collecting tubules.  

Raising of gas from the stomach and expelling it through the mouth and nose. Experience the disruptive emergence of air reverberating from the stomach and escaping through the mouth. Belching, an involuntary action, often stems from the subconscious habit of swallowing excessive amounts of air, typically triggered by rapid or excessive eating and drinking. On…

To protect with a rope. A rescuer can belay a stokes basket as it is being lowered to a safe position.  

A unit of measurement of the intensity of sound. It is expressed as a logarithm of the ratio of two sounds of acoustic intensity, one of which is fixed or standard; the ratio is expressed in decibels.  

A rare, multisystem, chronic, recurrent disease of unknown cause, marked by ulceration of the mouth and genitalia and by uveitis. The central nervous system, blood vessels, joints, and intestinal tract may be involved. It is genetically associated with HLA-B51. The disease occurs worldwide but is most common in the eastern Mediterranean area and eastern Asia.…

A conceptual model of nursing developed by Dorothy Johnson. The person is regarded as a behavioral system with seven subsystems — attachment, dependency, ingestion, elimination, sexuality, aggression, achievement. The goal of nursing is to restore, maintain, or attain behavioral system balance and stability.  

The actions or responses of providing patient services.  

Upward (cephalad) movement of the umbilicus when the neck of a patient with paralysis of the lower rectus abdominis muscles is flexed. It is one marker of fascioscapular muscular dystrophy and is found in other conditions (e.g., in some patients who have suffered trauma to the trunk, abdomen, or spinal cord).