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21 Cards in this Set
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Homeostasis
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The maintenance of a steady state within the body.
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Disease
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A state of functional disequllibrium, a change in function or structure that is considered to be abnormal.
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Signs
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Objective evidence of disease observed on physical examination.
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Symptoms
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Subjective indications of disease reported by the patient.
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Syndrome
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Certain sets of signs and symptoms occur concurrently in some diseases.
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Diagnosis
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The determination of the nature of a disease.
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Prognosis
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Predicted course and outcome of the disease.
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Acute
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Sudden onset and short term disease.
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Chronic
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A disease may begin insidiously and be long lived.
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Terminal
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Diseases that end in death.
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Remission
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Signs and symptoms of a chronic disease subside.
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Exacebation
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Signs and symptoms may recur in all their severity.
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Relapse
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Occurs when a disease returns weeks or months after it's apparent cessation.
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Complication
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A disease or other abnormal state that develops in a person already siffering the disease.
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Sequela
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Aftermath of a particular disease.
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Mortality
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A measure of the number of deaths attributed to a disease in a given population over a given period of time.
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Morbidity
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A measure of the disability and extent of illness caused by a disease.
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Etiology
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The source or cause of the disease.
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Pathogenesis
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The source or cause of a disease, together with it's development.
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Idipathic
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If the cause of the disease is not known.
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Lesion
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An abnormal tissue structure or function.
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