A blood bourne viral illness (HIV) characterized by severe impairment of the body’s immune defense system.

A substance used to absorb ingested poisons. Does not work with oils, metals (iron, lithium, lead, copper, mercury) or alcohols (ethyl, methyl, isopropal).

Characteriezed by sharpness or severity; having rapid onset and relatively short duration

Having rapid onset, severe symptoms, and usually, short duration.

Characteriezed by sharpness or severity; having rapid onset and relatively short duration

Irritation of the peritoneal lining. Often a surgical emergency.

Death (necrosis) of myocardial tissue caused by coronary artery occlusion.

Any condition in which breathing is inadequate to supply oxygen to or remove carbon dioxide from body tissues. Lab

An abbreviation meaning "as desired".

Fitting for connecting hose couplings with dissimilar threads but with the same inside diameter.[1] See also #Reducer, Increaser, #Double male, #Double female. May contain combinations, such as a double-female reducer. Adapters between multiple hoses are called #Wye, #Siamese, or #Distributor, Read on! →

Fitting for connecting hose couplings with dissimilar threads but with the same inside diameter.

compulsive, physical dependence fo subtance.

Movement toward the median line of the body.

Nozzle designed so that the amount of water flowing through the nozzle can be increased or decreased at the nozzle.

Small pair of glands situated on the kidneys. They produce steroid hormones such as aldosterone, androgens, glucocorticoids, progestins, estrogens. They also produce catecholamines such as epinephrine, and norepinephrine.

A trade name for epinephrine. A medication used in cardiac arrest, allergic reactions, and occasionally for asthma in the young.

Referring to the sympathetic nervous system. It derives from the word Adrenalin (by the kidney).

Adherence of a substance onto the surface of another.

Fire truck, meeting National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Standard 1901, Motor Fire Apparatus, Chapter 6 and Chapter 18, having a multi-section extending ladder, raised using power shifted from the truck’s propulsion engine. May also carry other portable ladders and tools.

Fire fighting vehicle equipped with a hydraulically operated ladder or elevating platform for the purpose of placing personnel and/or water streams in elevated positions.

Fuel type consisting of trees having few low branches, making it less susceptible to ignition by low-intensity fires.

General term used to describe the hydraulically operated ladder or elevating platform attached to a specially designed fire apparatus.

Use of aircraft in support of ground resources to combat wildfires, often most effective in initial attack in light fuels.

A rotating, power-operated (usually hydraulically) ladder mounted on a self-propelled automotive fire apparatus.[1]

Power-operated (usually hydraulically) ladder mounted on a special truck chassis.

A power-operated (usually hydraulically aerial device which combines an aerial ladder with a personal carrying platform supported at the end of a ladder.[1]

Power-operated (usually hydraulically) ladder with a passenger-carrying device attached to the end of the ladder.

Automatic Fire Alarm/Actuating Fire Alarm

Without fever.

Placenta.

Generic term used for materials that are used to extinguish fires.

Clumping together of red blood cells. Usually due to antibodies cross-linking RBCs together. See hemolytic reaction. (it is not clotting!)