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Term | Definition |
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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 |