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Terminal illness
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A disease or condition that will eventually cause death
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Grief
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Deep sorrow or distress over a loss
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Hospice care
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Holistic, compassionate care given to dying people and their families
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Palliative care
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Care that focuses on the comfort and dignity of a person who is very sick and/or dying, rather than on curing him or her
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Cheyne-Stokes
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Slow, irregular respirations or rapid, shallow respirations
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Rigor mortis
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The Latin term for the temporary condition after death in which the muscles in the body become stiff and rigid
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Postmortem care
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Care of the body after death
NA Vocab
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Chapter 132
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Chapter 215
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Chapter 333
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Chapter 424
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Chapter 558
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Chapter 615
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Chapter 714
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Chapter 835
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Chapter 932
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Chapter 1021
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Chapter 114
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Chapter 127
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Chapter 1328
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Chapter 1425
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Chapter 1523
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Chapter 1619
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Chapter 1725
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Chapter 1874
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Chapter 1925
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Chapter 200
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Chapter 210
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Chapter 220
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Chapter 237
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