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Assessment

Medical assistance

TermDefinition
Impression another word for assessment
Diagnosis using the subjective and objective data to determine the patient’s condition
Differential diagnosis based on the subjective and objective data, the health care professional cannot yet determine the diagnosis; for example, vague chest pain could lead to a differential diagnosis of pneumonia or a heart condition
Benign not cancerous
Malignant cancerous
Degeneration getting worse
Etiology the cause
Idiopathic no known cause
Remission no longer having the symptoms of a disease; usually used when referring to cancer
Recurrent to have again
Morbidity risk of being sick or diseased
Mortality risk for dying
Prognosis chance of getting better or worse
Localized one area
Systemic/generalized over a large area or body system
Occult hidden
Pathogen organism that causes the disease
Lesion diseased tissue
Sequelae result of disease or injury; for example, paralysis can be the sequelae of spinal cord injury
Pending waiting for
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