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Disease Terminology
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Acute | Disease chracterized by abrupt or sudden onset, usually with severe symptoms. Acute disease, as a rule, lasts a comparatively short time-no more than a few weeks. |
Chronic | Disease characterized by longer duration, often months or years. It usually associated with symptoms of less severe intensity. |
Communicable | Disease that is transmissible by direct or indirect contact with infection |
Complicating | Disease that occurs during or after an illness and has the same cause as the original disease or results from changes produced by the original disease. |
Congenital | Disease present in an infant at birth; it may be caused by hereditary factors or result from a prenatal condition or disease |
Contagious | highly transmissible disease |
Deficiency | Disease resulting from a lack of vitamins or minerals in the diet or a failure to absorb vitamins or minerals from food |
Endemic | Disease that occurs continuously or recurrently in a particular geographic region |
Epidemic | Disease that attacks simultaneously a large number of persons living in a particular geographic region |
Functional | Disease in which there is no significant anatomical change in the tissues or organs to account for the change in function or the performance of the body |
Hereditary | Disease transmitted from parent to offspring genetically |
Idiopathic | Disease in which the cause is unknown |
Occupational | Disease that results directs or indirectly from the patient's job |
Organic | Disease in which there are significant anatomical changes in the tissues or organs |
Pandemic | Disease that occurs more or less over the entire world at the same time |
Primary | When an individual has several diseases, the term primary may refer to the initial disease or to the most important disease.Sometimes it is used to denote a disease or group of diseases for which there is no specific cause.It is used to see where it start |
Prognosis | Medical assessment of the possible outcome or the prospect for recovery of the disease |
Psychosomatic | Disease that seems to be caused or worsened by psychological factors.It may or may not produce anatomical changes |
Secondary | Disease that results from a definite contributing factor. For instance, secondary anemia may result from blood loss or blood destruction |
Sporadic | Disease that occurs in isolated cases in a locality where it is neither endemic or epidemic |
Subacute | Disease characterized by an onset that is not as abrupt as in the acute form and with symptoms less severe and of shorter duration than chronic |