Unit 1 Key Terms
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show | Having a quick onset and lasting a short period of time with a relatively severe
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show | Showing or causing no identifiable symptoms
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Atrophy | show 🗑
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show | Antibody acting against its own tissue or organism. Ex-Lupus-chronic autoimmune disease that can damage any part of the body
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Autoimmunne disorder | show 🗑
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show | A localized tumor of well-differentiated cells that does not invade surrounding tissue or metastasize to distant areas within the body
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Carcinoma | show 🗑
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Congenital | show 🗑
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show | Refers to deterioration of the body usually associated with the aging process. Ex- atherosclerosis, osteoporosis, osteoarthritis.
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Diagnosis | show 🗑
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show | Any abnormal disturbance of the normal function or structure of a body part, organ, or system; may display a variety of manifestations.
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show | Abnormal tissue development. Abnormal changes of mature cells.
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show | The investigation of disease in large groups. Distributions of health states (good health, disease, etc.) tend to not be random within a population and are influenced by factors such as biology, social, and environment.
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Etiology | show 🗑
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Genetic mapping | show 🗑
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show | The entirety of an organism's hereditary information, including both the genes and the non-coding sequences of DNA and ribonucleic acid (RNA)
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Hematogenous Spread | show 🗑
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Hereditary | show 🗑
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Hyperplasia | show 🗑
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Hypertrophy | show 🗑
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Iatrogenic | show 🗑
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show | A disease having no identifiable causative factor
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show | A statistical measure that refers to the number of new cases of a disease found in a given time period. A disease of high prevalence in a geographical location is endemic to that area
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show | Refers to the body process of destroying, diluting, or walling off a
localized injurious agent. Most often localized infection is accompanied by this, can occur without infection.
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Invasion | show 🗑
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show | Term used to describe the various types of cellular changes that can occur in response to a disease
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Leukemia | show 🗑
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show | Cancer that spreads through the lymphatic system
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show | Neoplastic growth in the lymphatic system
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show | A lesion that grows, spreads, and invades other tissues
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Manifestations | show 🗑
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show | -The normal physiologic function of the body. An example is dehydration which upsets homeostasis due to a lack of fluid intake
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show | Conversion of a specific type of tissue into a different kind of tissue. Ex: smokers’ epithelial cells in the respiratory tract undergo this and change to a different types of epithelial cells.
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show | The spread of cancer cells.
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show | The incidence in the population of illness sufficient to interfere with an individual's normal daily routine
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Morphology | show 🗑
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show | The number of deaths from a particular disease averaged over a
population
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show | Pertaining to new, abnormal tissue growth. They can be benign or malignant.
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Nosocomial | show 🗑
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Pathogenesis | show 🗑
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show | A statistical measure that refers to the number of cases of a disease found in a given population
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Prognosis | show 🗑
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show | A type of tumor, often highly malignant, composed of a substance similar to embryonic connective tissue. A cancer that arises from connective tissue
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show | Traveling of cancerous cells to a distant site or distant organ
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Sequelae | show 🗑
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show | An objective manifestation of disease perceptible to the managing physician
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Symptom | show 🗑
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Syndrome | show 🗑
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Traumatic | show 🗑
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show | The ease with which an organism overcomes body defenses. An organism with high ______ is likely to produce diseases in susceptible people
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