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Review of Diseases 1
Infection & Disease terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Infectious disease | disease transmitted directly or indirectly between people |
| Palliative | preventing or relieving pain and suffering; treating the symptoms |
| Risk factors for disease | May be due to age, heredity, lifestyle, gender, environment, etc |
| Nosocomial | acquired from within the hospital |
| Idiopathic | having no specific cause |
| virus | pathogen that reproduces using host cell; transmits it's genetic code into cell of host |
| Prodromal | occurring between early symptoms |
| Etiology | cause of the disease |
| Prognosis | anticipated or expected outcome of a disease |
| Pathologist | one who studies disease |
| diagnosis | group of date obtained by physician to determine cause of patient's illness |
| Homeostasis | state of equilibrium in the body |
| Pathogen | disease causing organism |
| Disorder | diseased condition of body or mind |
| Microorganism | organism too small to be seen unless microscopic used |
| Disease | condition characterized by patient's subjective and objective symptoms: history, signs, symptoms, clinical findings |