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| The study of how diseases alter normal physiological process of the human body |
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| Sequence of cellular and tissue events that take place from initial contact with causative agent until expression of the disease |
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| Sum of knowledge of method of introduction of cause of disease |
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| Cause of disease is unknown |
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| Diseases that occur as the result of medical treatment |
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| Diseases acquired as a consequence of being at the hospital |
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| Naming or identification of disease |
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| Prediction of the course and end of a disease and the estimate of chance for recovery |
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| Rapid onset, duration short term, signs and symptoms often intense, prognosis self-limiting |
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| Slow onset, characterized by periods of exacerbations and remission. Usually there is some permanent impairment |
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| Periods where the symptoms dissapear or diminish significantly |
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| periods when the symptoms become worese or more severe |
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| Onset of a disease in a person who is already coping with another existing disease |
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| Unwanted outcomes of having disease or trauma |
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| Signs and symptoms or evidence of a disease |
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| Any objective evidence of the disease which can be taken in through the senses. Local - redness or swelling, systematic - fever |
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| Any subjective evidence of a patients condition. |
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| is the time during which a person experiences vague symptoms such as fatigue or loss of appetite before the onset of specific signs and symptoms of a disease |
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| Vague or nonspecific feelings and an awareness that there is a change within the body. |
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| Time during which no symptoms are readily apparent in the affected person, but the disease is nevertheless present in the body. |
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| Group of symptoms that occur together and may be caused by several interrelated problems or a specific disease |
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| An abnormality of function |
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| The study of tracking patterns or disease occurence and transmission among populations and by geographic areas |
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| the number of new cases occuring in a specific period |
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| Number of existing cases within a population during a specific period |
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| Risk Factors (predisposing factors) |
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| Factors that increase the probability that disease will occur, but are not the cause of disease |
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| A condition of event that does cause a pathologic event or disorder |
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| A factor that may be present or absent for an illness to occur. It may be biological, chemical, physical, mechanical, or psychosocial |
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| Living beings capable of being infected or affected by an agent |
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| Everything external to the host that makes illness more or less likely |
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