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SUBACUTE
REFERS TO AN ILLNESS THAT IS NEITHER ACUTE NOR CHRONIC BUT SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN
SEQUELA
A CONDITION RESULTING FROM A PRIOR DISEASE, INJURY OR ATTACK
REMISSIVE
MOST OR ALL OF THE SYMPTOMS HAVE GONE AWAY
RELAPSING
THE RETURN OF A DISEASE AFTER ITS APPARENT CESSATION
RECURRENT
REAPPEARS AFTER IT HAS APPARENTLY GONE AWAY
PROGRESSIVE
ADVANCING, GOING FORWARD, GOING FROM BAD TO WORSE, INCREASING IN SEVERITY
PAROXYSMAL
A SUDDEN RECURRENCE OF INTENSIFICATION OF SYMPTOMS,
SEIZURE OR ATTACK
NEONATAL
AFFECTING NEWBORNS
MALIGNANT
TENDING TO BECOME PROGRESSIVELY WORSE AND EVENTUALLY CAUSE DEATH
INTERMITTENT
CAUSES SYMPTOMS AT INTERVALS WITH PERIODS OF TIME BETWEEN THEM WITH NO SYMPTOMS
END-STAGE
A PROGRESSIVELY DETERIORATING CONDITION THAT HAS REACHED A POINT OF TERMINAL IMPAIRMENT OF THE AFFECTED SYSTEM
DISABLING
CAUSES IMPAIRMENT OF NORMAL FUNCTIONS, SUCH AS SIGHT, HEARING, MOBILITY OR BREATHING
CONGENITAL
PRESENT AT BIRTH
CHRONIC
PERSISTING OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME
ASYMPTOMATIC
HAVING NO SYMPTOMS
ACUTE
ONE WHICH HAS A SHORT AND RELATIVELY SEVERE COURSE
ACQUIRED
NOT BORN WITH IT
TRAUMATIC
RESULTING FROM SOME TYPE OF INJURY
ORGANIC
DUETO A DEMONSTRABLE ABNORMALITY IN A BODILY STRUCTURE
NUTRITIONAL
CAUSATION DUE TO NUTRITIONAL FACTORS, INSUFFICIENT DIETARY INTAKE
NEOPLASTIC
PERTAINING TO ANY NEW AND ABNORMAL GROWTH, NEW GROWTH OF TISSUE WHICH IS PROGRESSIVE AND UNCONTROLLED
MOLECULAR
CAUSED BY ABNORMALITY IN THE CHEMICAL STRUCTURE OR CONCENTRATION OF A SINGLE MOLECULE
INFECTIOUS
CAUSED BY AN INFECTION
IDIOPATHIC
OF UNKNOWN CAUSE
HEREDITARY
GENETICALLY TRANSMITTED
FUNCTIONAL
DUE TO A DISTURBANCE OF FUNCTION WITHOUT EVIDENCE OF A STRUCTURAL OR CHEMICAL ABNORMALITY
FAMILIAL
OCCURRING IN OR AFFECTING MORE MEMBERS OF A FAMILY THAN WOULD BE EXPECTED BY CHANCE
ESSENTIAL
TERM ASSIGNED TO DISEASES FOR WHICH THE CAUSE IS UNKNOWN
DEVELOPMENTAL
OCCURS AS A RESULT OF SOME ABNORMALITY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF TISSUE, ORGAN OR OTHER BODY PART
DEGENERATIVE
PERTAINING TO DETERIORATION
NORMAL FORM TO LOWER FORM
DEFICIENCY
LACK OF OR DEFICIT
TERMINAL
EXPECTS TO END IN DEATH REGARDLESS OF TREATEMENT
ANTERIOR
IN FRONT OF OR TOWARD THE FRONT OF A BODY PART OR ORGAN
CORONAL
DIVISION OF THE BODY INTO ANTERIOR AND POSTERIOR SECTIONS, FRONTAL PLANE
HEAD REGION
DISTAL
REMOTE, FARTHER FROM THE TRUNK OF THE BODY
OPPOSITE OF PROXIMAL
DORSAL
PERTAINING TO THE BACK
INFERIOR
SITUATED BELOW OR DIRECTED DOWNWARD, ALSO USED TO DENOTE THE LOWER PORTION OF AN ORGAN, SOMETIMES CALLED CAUDAL
LATERAL
PERTAINING TO THE SIDE
MEDIAL
PERTAINING TO THE MIDDLE
POSTERIOR
SITUATED IN THE BACK
PROXIMAL
NEAR, CLOSER TO THE TRUNK OF THE BODY,
OPPOSITE OF DISTAL
SAGITTAL
DIVISION OF BODY INTO LEFT AND RIGHT SIDES IN A VERTICAL LENGTHWISE FASHION
SUPERIOR
SITUATED ABOVE OR DIRECTED UPWARD
UPPER SURFACE OF AN ORGAN OR OTHER STRUCTURE
TRANSVERSE
HORIZONTAL PLANE SITUATED AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE LONG AXIX
VENTRAL
PERTAINING TO THE ABDOMEN
LATERAL PTERYGOID
MUSCLE OF MASTICATION
MOVES MANDIBLE AND LIMITS SIDEWAYS JAW MOVEMENTS
MEDIAL PTERYGOID
MUSCLE OF MASTICATION
BOTH ARE INSIDE THE MANDIBLE
ELEVATES JAW AND PROVIDES SIDEWAYS MOVEMENT
RESORIUS
SIDES OF FACE
DRAWS THE ANGLE OF THE MOUTH LATERALLY
ENABLES SMILES
MENTALIS
ORIGINATES ON THECHIN
ELEVATES AND PROTRUDES THE LOWER LIP
DEPRESSOR LABII INFERIORIS
ORIGINATES ON THE MANDIBLE
DEPRESSES THE BOTTOM LIP GOES INTO THE ORBICULARIS ORIS MUSCLE
DEPRESSOR ANGULI ORIS
ORIGINATES ON THE LOWER PART OF THE MANDIBLE
PULLS DOWN THE ANGLE OF THE MOUTH