Chapter 1

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Cellular basis of disease

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The tracing of disease to deranged structure or function of cells.

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Allopathic medicine

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Conventional practice of medicine with biological basis for treatment.

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Anatomic pathologists

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Medical specialty involved with performing alitopsis and examining tissues and fluids removed from live patients for the purpose of diagnosis

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Clinical patholologists

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A type of physician who analyzes various specimens removed from patients such as blood, urine, sputum, etcl, to determine the type and cause of disease.

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Congenital

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Present at birth, but not necessarily genetic in origin

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Developmental abnormality

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abnormalities of development that may be due to altered genetic structure or environmental effects , or a combination of the two.

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Diagnosis

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Observation, history and laboratory results used to determine the specific disease

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Differential diagnosis

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A list of possible diagnosis that fit the physical and historical presentation of a patients illness.

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Culture

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A method of multiplying nicroorganismms by letting them reporduce in a controlled environment.

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Cytopathy

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The study of cellular changes for the diagnosis of disease.

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Endogenous

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Agents acting from inside the body.

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Evidence-based medicine

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Guidelines for treatment based on emperical evidence and advice issued by experts.

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Exogenous

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Agents acting from outside the body.

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Etology

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The cause of diseases.

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Experimental pathology

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Scientists who seek to link the presentation of a disaese in a whole organism with its fundamental molecular and cellular mechanisms, and applying their sresearch fundings to its diagnosis and treatment.

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External agents

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Physical, chemical or microbial causes of injury.

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Hyperplasia

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The abnormal proliferation of cells with in an organ or tissue resulting in an increase in cells.

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Homeostatsis

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The body's ability to physiologically regulate, to adapt to minor fluctuations.

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Genetic disease

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Disease caused by an abnormal gene.

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History

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Listening to the patient or patient's relatives to ascertain the symptoms and reviewing any other past or present medical problems that might relate to them.

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Inflammation

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The vascular and cellular response to necrosis or sublethal cell energy and is the body's mechanism of limiting the spread of injury.

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Immunological diseases

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Diseases caused by alterations of the immune system.

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Idiopathic

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Diseases of unknown causes.

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Infections

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Microbiologic injury caused by an organism of bacterial, viral, fungal, or protozoan origin.

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Iatrogenis

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Adverse reattions resulting from treatment applied by a heathcare provider

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Metabloic diseases

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Biochemical disorders involving lipids, carbohydrates, proteins, mminerals, or vitamins.

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Neoplasia

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The abnormal proliferation of cells.

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Lesions

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Structural changes with in the body caused by disease.

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Necrosis

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The death of cells or tissue due to an endogenous or exogenous injury.

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Laboratory findings

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Observations made by the application of tests or special procedures.

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Pathogenisis

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Structural and functional mechanisms leading to disease.

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Pathophysiology

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Disease acqired from a hospital environment.

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Nosocomal

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Disease acquired from a hospital environment.

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Physical Examinination

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The process by which a health care specialist examines the body for signs of disease.

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Organic diseases

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Siseases charactarized by structural changes with in the body.

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Signs

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Physical observations made by the examiner of the patient.

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sublethal (reversable) cell injury

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Where the cells are dammaged byt capable of repair.

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Surgical pathology

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A branch of pathology that makes diagnosis based on fross, microscopic, and other tests on tissue removed from live patients during surgery; used to develop treatment strategies.

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Repair

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The body's attempt to replace dead cells, wither by regeneration of the original tissue or replacement by connective scar tissue.

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Prognosis

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A prediction about the course a disease will take.

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Trauma

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Injury caused by extrinsic forces.

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Symptoms

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Evidence of disease percieved by the patient.

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Syndromes

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Clusters of frindings commonly encountered with more than one disease.

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Workup

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Investigation of a patient's symptoms to determine the cause of the ailment.