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| a disease assoc with structural or morphological changes |
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| a disease assoc with no morphological changes |
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| the study of the development of diseases, and of the structural and functional alterations, which result for disease, including the natural history of these changes |
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| study of disease but not synonymous with cause of a disease |
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| those acutely changing conditioning factors, which permit the immediate cause to act |
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| those general constitutional circumstances (age, sex, socioeconomic status, etc.), which pave the way for the immediate causes to act |
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| natural history of the disease |
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| the usual course of a disease from beginning to end, without treatment |
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| the structural alterations, recognizable by gross and microscopic pathology; often serve to distinguish one disease from another; result in symptoms and signs |
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| subjective complaints of the patient, such as pain, nausea, or weakness, ussually not subject to confirmation by the examiner, physician, dentist, or other health care professional |
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| objective findings detected through physical or laboratory examination; first detected by the examiner at the time of the examination. sometimes noted by the pt and confirmed by the examiner |
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| tenderness, warmth, heart murmur, swelling of feet, or jaundice |
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| a determination of the nature of the disease process and the organ (s) and tissues (s) affected |
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| the interruption of the natural course of the disease through medical and/or surgical intervention |
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| the prediction of the outcome of the disease, contingent upon an accurate diagnosis and based upon knowlege of the natural history of the disease and its response to therapy |
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| the study of the structural (morpological) chages of cells/tissues/organs in disease |
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| the study of tissue removed from a living body, the biopsy |
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| the study of cells; it usual application is the exam of smears prepared from body secretons, especially those of oral cavity, lung & bronchi, breast, and prostate as a screening test for cancer in patients having no evidence of the disease |
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| necropsy (autopsy) pathology |
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| the study of organs and tissues removed from the body post-mortemly (after death) to confirm or correct the diagnosis, evaluate the result of treatment, determine the mechanism of death, and extend the knowledge of diseases. |
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| inherited (hereditary) or familial disease |
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| due to faults, which are transmitted from one or both parents to their offspring through the chromosomes |
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| generally considered to be the result of interruption of the blood supply flow to an area as well as aging or wear and tear |
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| result from either congenital or acquired alterations of immnity, hyperactivity or deficiency |
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| those in which certain cells become "outlaw" cells, multiplying rapidly and invading and destroying surrounding tissues and cells, and often spreading to distant organs |
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| usually result from a dietary intake deficient in total amount (starvation) or in some essential ingredient (vitamin deficiency) or from excessive food intake (obesity) |
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| those in which certain physiologic processes become deranged; eg diabetes, hyperthyroidism |
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| those metabolic diseases in which the molecular products of cellular activity are abnormal in composition; eg sickle cell anemia |
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| begin in the emotions and are mediated largely throgh the autonomic nervous system |
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| terms when the cause of the disease is unknown |
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