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Disease Terminology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acute | disease that occurs for a short time, no more then two weeks |
| Chronic | disease that lasts for longer periods of time |
| Communicable | disease that is transmissible by direct or indirect contact, contagious |
| Complicating | a disease that occurs during or after an illness that has the same cause as the original disease |
| Congential | highly transmitable disease |
| Deficiency | disease resulting as a lack of something |
| Endemic | occurs continuously or recurrently in a particular area |
| Epidemic | disease that attacks a large number of people living in a particular region |
| Functional | disease with no significant change |
| Hereditary | disease thats transmitted geneticly from the parent |
| Idiopathic | the cause of the disease is unknown |
| Occupational | a disease that results from the patients job |
| Organic | disease where there a significant anatomical changes in the tissues or organs |
| Pandemic | disease that occurs worldwide at a time |
| Primary | term used to characterize a disease |
| Psychosomatic | mental problems |
| Prognosis | amount of time the patient has to recover or die |
| Secondary | disease that results from a define contributing factor |
| Sporadic | disease that doesnt happen all the time |
| Subacute | a disease that doesnt happen suddenly but very slowly and doesnt have severe symptoms then it goes away |
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