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Pathology 200
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |