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Chapter 7
Symptoms, diagnoses, treatments, communication qualifiers and statistics
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Acute | Sharp, severe; rapid onset, short not chronic |
| Anorexia | Loss of appetite |
| Antipyretic | Agent that works against fever |
| Asymptomatic | Without symptoms |
| Atrophy | Wasting away, underdeveloped |
| Bradypnea | Slow breathing |
| Central | Center of the body |
| Cheyne-Stokes respiration | Alternating shallow and deep breathing |
| Chlorocyte | Green(plant)cell |
| Chronic | Long, drawn out illness |
| Cyanoderma | Blue skin |
| Diagnosis | Identification of an illness |
| Dyspnea | Painful or difficult breathing |
| Edema | An accumulation of fluid in the tissues |
| Emesis | Products of vomiting |
| Erythremia | Abnormal increase in red blood cells |
| Generalized Hematemesis | Blood in the vomitus |
| Hyperpnea | Very fast breathing |
| Hyperpyrexia | Life-threatening high temperature |
| Leukocyte | White blood cell |
| Localized malaise | Ill in one part of the body |
| Melanocarcinoma | Black pigmented malignant tumor |
| Morbidity | Illness rate |
| Mortality | Death rate |
| Nausea | Sickness of stomach, desire to vomit |
| Palliative | Relieving symptoms but not the disease |
| Paroxysmal | Sudden periodical attack or recurrence of symptoms of disease, fit or convulsion |
| Peripheral | Outside surface of body |
| pneometer | Instrument for measuring breathing |
| Polyarthritis | Inflammation of many joints |
| Prodromal | Signs and symptoms occuring before sickness/disease (cough before a cold) |
| Prognosis | Prediction of course/outcome of an illness |
| Prophylactic | Treatment aimed at preventing disease |
| Pyretolysis | Lowering of fever |
| Pyrexia | Fever, increased body temperature |
| Respiration | Breathing |
| Symptom | Change in body functions or structure that the patient sees, hears, tastes, smells and feels |
| Symptomatic | With symptoms |
| Syndrome | Group of signs and symptoms occurring together |
| Systemic | Pertaining to all body systems, or the whole body rather than one part |
| Tachypnea | Fast breathing |
| Tinnitus | Ringing in the ears |
| Vertigo | Sensation of turning around in space or of objects moving |
| Vital Signs | Temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure |
| Xanthopsia | Yellow vision |
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