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| the study of the essential nature of diseases and especially of the structural and functional changes produced by them |
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| : cause, origin; specifically : the cause of a disease or abnormal condition |
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| the origination and development of a disease |
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| an infection involving bacteria that invade the body at a specific point and remain there, multiplying, until eliminated. |
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| an infection in which the pathogen is distributed throughout the body rather than concentrated in one area. |
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| Illness caused by new bacteria, viruses, or fungi becoming established in the wake of an initial infection. |
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| having severe symptoms and a short course |
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| Of long duration. Used of a disease of slow progress and long continuance. |
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| occurs when bacteria enter the bloodstream. This may occur through a wound or infection, or through a surgical procedure or injection. |
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| A systemic disease caused by the multiplication of microorganisms in the blood. Also called blood poisoning, septic fever. |
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1. the condition resulting from the spread of bacterial products (toxins) by the bloodstream.
book definition: toxins in blood |
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| the presence of viruses in the blood. |
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| Prevalent in or restricted to a particular region, community, or group of people. Used of a disease. |
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| Spreading rapidly and extensively by infection and affecting many individuals in an area or population at the same time, as of a disease or illness. An outbreak or unusually high occurrence of a disease or illness in a population or area. occurring suddenly in numbers clearly in excess of normal expectancy. |
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| A widespread epidemic that affects whole countries or the entire world. |
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"a group of signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a particular abnormality or condition
Duwe-"just signs and symptoms..don't know what causes it...example AIDS( Acquired Immunosuppress?? Disease Syndrome) |
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-Duwe definition (technical term), -outgrowth of normal flora that is a normal flora, -due to a course of antibiotics
-a new infection occurring in a patient having a preexisting infection, such as bacterial superinfection in viral respiratory disease or infection of a chronic hepatitis B carrier with hepatitis D virus
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