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Medical Flashcards
General assessment terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What is a diagnosis? | A diagnosis is what the health care professional thinks the patient has. |
| What is remission? | Remission is to get better or improve. |
| What does localized mean? | Localized is to stay in a certain part of the body. |
| Define idiopathic. | Idiopathic means to have no known specific cause. |
| Define benign. | Benign means safe. |
| What is etiology? | Etiology is the cause. |
| What is a pathogen? | A pathogen is the organism that causes the problem. |
| What does pending mean? | Pending means to wait for or waiting for. |
| Define lesion. | Lesion is dead tissue. |
| What is recurrent? | Recurrent means to have again. |