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