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Assessment Terms
Medical
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Impression | assessment |
| Diagnosis | one doctor diagnosis |
| Differential Diagnosis | two or more doctor diagnosis |
| Benign | not a cancer or tumor |
| Malignant | progressive and could potentially be fatal |
| Degeneration | getting worse |
| Etiology | cause of disease |
| Idiopathic | no known cause |
| remission | no longer having symptoms of disease |
| recurrent | coming back |
| morbidity | overly fat |
| mortality | life expectancy |
| prognosis | outlook |
| Localized | Confined to a specific, limited area of the body; not spread or widespread. |
| systemic/generalized | Affecting the entire body or multiple organ systems, rather than being limited to one area. |
| occult | Hidden, not immediately obvious, or not visible by routine examination |
| pathogen | organism that causes disease |
| lesion | diseased tissue |
| sequela | result of disease or injury |
| pending | waiting |