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common term
Term | Definition |
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Subjective | How a patient experiences and personally describes his or her problem as well as personal and family medical histories. |
Objective | the patients physical exam, any laboratory findings, and imaging studies performed at the visit. |
Assessment | a diagnosis, an identification of a problem, or a list of possibilities for the diagnosis, which is known as a differential diagnosis. |
Plan | a course of action consistent with his or her assessment. |
acute | it just started recently or is a sharp, severe symptom |
chronic | it has been going on for a while now |
exacerbation | it is getting worse |
abrupt | all of a sudden |
febrile | to have a fever |
afebrile | to not have a fever |