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