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Mosby's Essential #2

Mosby's Essential Sciences - Chapter 2

WordDefinition
Acute pain Pain that is usually temporary and easily localized.
Afferent Toward a center or point reference.
Anaplasia Describes abnormal or undifferentiated cells that fail to mature into specialized cell types.
Benign A noncancerous tumor that is contained and does not spread.
Biologic rythms The internal, periodic timing component of an organism.
Cancer Malignant, nonencapsulated cells that invade surrounding tissue.
Chronic pain Pain that continues or recurs over a prolonged time and is usually poorly localized.
Dosha Physiologic function.
Efferent Away from a center or point of reference.
Entrainment A coordination or synchronization to an internal or external rythm.
Etiology The study of the factors involved in the development of disease.
Fistula A track that is open at both ends through which abnormal connections occur between two surfaces.
Health A condition of homeostasis resulting in a state of physical, emotional, social and spiritual well-being.
Homeostasis The relatively constant state of the internal environment of the body that is maintained by adaptive responses.
Hyperplasia An uncontrolled increase in the number of cells of a body part.
Inflammation A protective response of the tissues to irritation or injury that may be chronic or acute.
Kapha dosha Physiologic funtion that blends the water and earth elements.
Neoplasm The abnormal growth of new tissue (tumor).
Opportunistic pathogens Organisms that cause disease only when the immunity is low in a host.
Pain An unpleasant sensation.
Pathogenicity The ability of the infectious agent to cause disease.
Pathology The study of disease as observed in the structure and function of the body.
Phantom pain A form of pain or other sensation experienced in the missing extremity after a limb amputation.
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