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18 Cards in this Set
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1. Hereditary |
1.Hereditary- the passing of traits to offspring from its parents or ancestor |
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2. Congenital |
2.Congenital- existing at birth |
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3. Traumatic |
3.Traumatic - relating to or denoting physical injury |
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4. Iatrogenic physical- |
4.Iatrogenic physical- denoting an unfavorable response to therapy, induced by therapy |
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5. Chemical |
5. Chemical - defined as something relating to chemistry or the use of a drug |
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6. Infectious |
6.Infectious – capable of being transmitted by infection, disease due to the action of a microorganism |
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7. Inflammatory |
7.Inflammatory- pertaining to, characterized by, resulting from, or becoming affected by inflammation Edema, fever, cytologic and histologic reactions in response to injury or disease |
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8. Vascular |
8. Vascular – relating to blood vessels |
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9. Metabolic |
9. Metabolic- relating to the sum of chemical changes occurring in tissue |
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10. Nutritional |
10.Nutritional- pertaining to the assimilation though chemical changes(metabolism) of material |
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11. Psychologic |
11.Psychologic- relating to psychology or to mind and its processes |
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12. Idiopathic |
12.Idiopathic – denoting disease of unknown cause |
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13. Tumors |
13.Tumors- abnormal swelling or cell growth |
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14. Incidence |
14. Incidence - a measure of the probability of occurrence of a given medical condition in a population within a specified period of time |
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15. Prevalence |
15. Prevalence - the proportion of individuals in a population having a disease or characteristic. |
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16. Endemic |
16. Endemic - growing or existing in acertain place or region |
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17. Epidemic |
17. Epidemic - spreading rapidly and extensively by infection Affecting many individuals in an area or population at the same time |
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18. Pandemic |
18. Pandemic- an epidemic of infectious disease that has spread through human populations across a large region; ie., multiple continents, or even worldwide |
