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Review of Diseases 1
Infection & Disease terms
Question | Answer |
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Infectious disease | disease transmitted directly or indirectly between people |
Palliative | preventing or relieving pain and suffering; treating the symptoms |
Risk factors for disease | May be due to age, heredity, lifestyle, gender, environment, etc |
Nosocomial | acquired from within the hospital |
Idiopathic | having no specific cause |
virus | pathogen that reproduces using host cell; transmits it's genetic code into cell of host |
Prodromal | occurring between early symptoms |
Etiology | cause of the disease |
Prognosis | anticipated or expected outcome of a disease |
Pathologist | one who studies disease |
diagnosis | group of date obtained by physician to determine cause of patient's illness |
Homeostasis | state of equilibrium in the body |
Pathogen | disease causing organism |
Disorder | diseased condition of body or mind |
Microorganism | organism too small to be seen unless microscopic used |
Disease | condition characterized by patient's subjective and objective symptoms: history, signs, symptoms, clinical findings |