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Disease
Anatomy/Disease
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| deficiency | A lack or defect. |
| degenerative | Pertaining to deterioration. |
| developmental | Occurs as a result of some abnormality in the development of tissue, an organ, or body part. |
| essential | Term assigned to diseases for which the cause is unknown. |
| familial | Occurring in or affecting more members of a family than would be expected by chance, such as familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. |
| functional | Due to a disturbance of function without evidence of a structural or chemical abnormality. |
| hereditary | Means genetically transmitted from parent to offspring. |
| hereditary | Means genetically transmitted from parent to offspring. |
| idiopathic | Of unknown cause, arising spontaneously, such as idiopathic cardiomyopathy. |
| infectious | Caused by an infection, which is the invasion and multiplication of microorganisms in body tissue. |
| molecular | Caused by abnormality in the chemical structure or concentration of a single molecule (the smallest amount of a substance which can exist alone), usually a protein or enzyme. Molecular diseases are often also congenital, such as sickle cell anemia. |
| neoplastic | Any new/abnormal growth; new growth of tissue which is progressive/uncontrolled. These growths are generally called tumors. |
| nutritional | Cause is nutritional factors, either insufficient or excessive dietary intake;eating disorders, such as bulimia or anorexia nervosa. Scurvy and rickets are examples of diseases caused by poor nutrition and/or vitamin deficiency. |
| organic | Due to a demonstrable abnormality in a bodily structure, such as a heart murmur. |
| traumatic | Resulting from some type of injury: physical, chemical, or psychological. Many pathologies, such as injuries, war wounds, or the psychological effects of abuse, war or rape, leading to diseases such as post-traumatic stress disorder. |
| acquired | Patient was not born with it. |
| acute | One which has a short and relatively severe course. |
| asymptomatic | Having no symptoms. |
| chronic | Persisting over a long period of time. |
| congenital | Present at birth. |
| disabling | Causes impairment of normal functions, such as sight, hearing, mobility, or breathing. |
| end-stage | A progressively deteriorating condition, such as end-stage liver disease. |
| intermittent | Causes symptoms at intervals with periods of time between them with no symptoms. |
| malignant | Tending to become progressively worse and eventually causing death. This is usually attributed to types of tumors or cancers but can also describe other problems, such as malignant hypertension. |
| neonatal | Affecting newborns, especially common in prematurely born infants. |
| paroxysmal | A sudden recurrence or intensification of symptoms; a seizure or attack. |
| progressive | Advancing, going forward; going from bad to worse; increasing in severity. |
| recurrent | Reappears after it has apparently gone away. |
| relapsing | The return of a disease after its apparent cessation. This means basically the same thing as recurrent. |
| remissive | Most or all of the symptoms have gone away. They can disappear either spontaneously or because of treatment, and the disappearance can be either temporary or permanent. |
| sequela | A condition resulting from a prior disease, injury, or attack. For example, a sequela of chickenpox. |
| subacute | Refers to an illness that is neither acute nor chronic, but is somewhere in between. |
| terminal | Expected to end in death regardless of treatment. |
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