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Disease Terminology
Question | Answer |
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Acute | disease that occurs for a short time, no more then two weeks |
Chronic | disease that lasts for longer periods of time |
Communicable | disease that is transmissible by direct or indirect contact, contagious |
Complicating | a disease that occurs during or after an illness that has the same cause as the original disease |
Congential | highly transmitable disease |
Deficiency | disease resulting as a lack of something |
Endemic | occurs continuously or recurrently in a particular area |
Epidemic | disease that attacks a large number of people living in a particular region |
Functional | disease with no significant change |
Hereditary | disease thats transmitted geneticly from the parent |
Idiopathic | the cause of the disease is unknown |
Occupational | a disease that results from the patients job |
Organic | disease where there a significant anatomical changes in the tissues or organs |
Pandemic | disease that occurs worldwide at a time |
Primary | term used to characterize a disease |
Psychosomatic | mental problems |
Prognosis | amount of time the patient has to recover or die |
Secondary | disease that results from a define contributing factor |
Sporadic | disease that doesnt happen all the time |
Subacute | a disease that doesnt happen suddenly but very slowly and doesnt have severe symptoms then it goes away |