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Pathology 200
Term | Definition |
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Primary duty is to make inquiry into death and complete | coroner |
Objective abnormalities seen or measured by someone other than the patient | sign |
Study of factors causing a disease | sign |
Diseases with undetermined causes | Idiopathic |
A physician trained in the medical specialty of pathology | Pathologist |
Actual pattern of a disease's development | Pathogenesis |
Organic diseases, with challenges called lesions | Structural disease |
Ratio of actual deaths to to expected deaths | Mortality rate |
Agents acting from without (the body) to cause injury | Exogenous |
Subjective abnormalities felt only by the patient | Symptoms |
Condition inadvertently caused by a physician | Iatrogenic |
Structural change in tissue | Lesion |
Prospect of recovery | Prognosis |
Abrupt onset of symptoms that run a brief course (less than 6 months) | Acute |
Identifying a disease | Diagnosis |
Treatment designed to relieve, not to cure symptoms | Palliative |
Acquired or occurring in the hospital | Nonsocomial |
Ratio of sick to well persons in a given area | Morbidity |
Widespread of disease in an area of population | Epidemic |
Evident only to the patient | Subjective |
Perceptible to other persons | Objective |
Agents acting from within (body) to cause injury | Endogenous |