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Acute   Disease characterized by abrupt or sudden onset, usually w/ severe symptoms  
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Chronic   Disease characterized by longer duration, often months or years. Symptoms less severe  
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Communicable   Disease that is transmissible by direct or indirect contact with infection  
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Complicating   Disease that occurs during or after an illness with the same cause  
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Congenital   Disease present in baby's birth.  
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Contagious   Highly transmissible disease  
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Deficiency   Disease resulting from a failure to absorb vitamins or minerals from food  
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Endemic   Re-occurring disease  
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Epidemic   Disease that attacks simultaneously a large number of persons  
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Functional   Disease in which no significant anatomical change in tissues or organs to account for the change in function  
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Hereditary   Disease transmitted from parent to offspring genetically  
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Idiopathic   Unknown cause of disease  
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Occupational   Disease resulting directly or indirectly from the patient's job.  
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Organic   Disease in which no significant anatomical changes in tissues or organs  
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Pandemic   Disease occurring more or less over the entire world at the same time  
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Primary   Term used in several ways to characterize disease  
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Prognosis   Medical assessment of the probable outcome  
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Psychosomatic   Disease seemed to be caused or worsened by pschological factors.  
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Secondary   Disease resulting from a definite contributing factor  
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Sporadic   Disease that occurs in isolated cases in a locality where it is neither endemic nor epidemic.  
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Subacute   Disease characterized by an onset that is not as abrupt as in the acute form. With symptoms less severe and shorter duration.  
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