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diseaseterm
disease terminology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acute | suddenly onset, servere symptoms. short time duration- no more than a few weeks |
| chronic | less servere symptoms. long duration months or years |
| communicable | you can transfer it by direct or indirect contact with infection |
| complicating | it happens when you get sick by another disease while trying to cure the original disease |
| congenital | it is a disease you are born with since birth can be heredital |
| contagious | highly transmissible disease |
| deficiency | lack of vitamins or minerals |
| endemic | occurs continuously in a particular region |
| epidemic | attacks a large number of people in a particular region |
| hereditary | transmitted from the parents to the child |
| idiopathic | unknown cause |
| occupational | comes from the patients job |
| organic | there are natomical changes in the tissues and organs |
| pandemic | happens more or less at the same time all over the world |
| primary | the most important disease for a patient with several diseases. to denote a disease with no specific cause. to indicate where a process begins |
| prognosis | the prospect for recovery of the disease |
| psychosomatic | caused or worsened by psychological factors |
| secondary | results from a definite contributing factor |
| sporadic | occurs in isolated areas. neither endemic or epidemic |
| subacute | symptoms less severe and shorter duration than a chronic disease |
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