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Assessment
General Assessment Terms
Term | Definition |
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Impression | Another way of saying assessment |
Diagnosis | What the healthcare professional thinks the patient has |
Differential Diagnosis | A list of conditions the patient may have based on the symptoms exhibited and the results of the exam |
Benign | Safe |
Malignant | Dangerous; a problem |
Degeneration | To be getting worse |
Etiology | The cause |
Remission | To get better or improve; most often used when discussing cancer, remission does not mean cure |
Idiopathic | No known specific cause; it just happens |
Localized | Stays in a certain part of the body |
Systemic/Generalized | All over body (or most of it) |
Morbidity | The risk for being sick |
Mortality | The risk for dying |
Prognosis | The chances for things getting better or worse |
Occult | Hidden |
Pathogen | The organism that causes the problem |
Lesion | Diseased tissue |
Recurrent | To have again |
Sequelae | A problem resulting from a disease or injury |
Pending | Waiting for |