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Medical Terminology
General Assessment Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Impression | assesment |
| Diagnosis | what the health care professional thinks the patient has |
| Differential diagnosis | a list of conditions the patient may have based on symptoms and results of the exam |
| Benign | safe |
| malignant | dangerous; a problem |
| Degeneration | to be getting worse |
| Etiology | the cause |
| idiopathic | no known specific cause; it just happens |
| Remission | to get better or improve |
| Recurrent | to have again |
| Morbidity | the risk of being sick |
| Mortality | the risk for dying |
| Prognosis | the chances for things getting better or worse |
| Localized | stays in a certain part of the body |
| systemic/generalized | all over the body (or most of it) |
| Occult | hidden |
| Pathogen | the organism that causes the problem |
| Lesion | diseased tissue |
| Sequelae | a problem resulting from a disease or injury |
| Pending | waiting for |