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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hereditary/genetic | abnormality in genes or chromosomes |
| Inflammatory | Autoimmune, allergic-abnormal immune function |
| Neoplastic | Abnormal growth leads to tumors |
| Pathologist | Person that studies changes caused by disease |
| Electrocardiography | Reading heart's electrical impulses |
| MRI definition and stands for | Analyzes tissue responses of magnetic field- Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| Traumatic | Physical or chemical injury |
| Exacerbation | signs and symptoms grow more severe |
| Pharmacologic | Drugs |
| Sequela | Aftermath of disease |
| Syndrome | Abnormal structure or function |
| Complication | Related disease that develops in someone that already has a disease |
| Palpation | feeling body with hands |
| Inspection | Visual exam of body |
| Pathogenesis | How etiology leads to physiological changes to result in disease |
| Auscultation | listening to hear quality of sounds |
| Mortality | #of deaths due to a certain disease/people with the disease |
| Morbidity | #of NEW cases of disease/total # of people in a population |
| Incidence | # new cases in disease in a population |
| Prevalence | %population affected with certain disease in a specific time frame - # of people with a disease in a certain time frame/total people in population in time frame |