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| Study of disease | Pathology
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| Father of medicine | Hippocrate
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| Studies changes in the structure and function of the body which can be observed with the unaided eye. | Gross pathology
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| Studies changes which occur in cells of the body at the microscopic level | Mircroscopic, cellular, or histo-pathology
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| Deals with general or broad disease processes, such as necrosis or inflammation, which may affect the entire body or wide-spread tissues and organs | General pathology
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| Studies disease processes affecting individual body areas or systems, such as pathology of the respiratory system or diseases of the skin | Special pathology
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| Study of tissues which have been removed from the body for pathological study. (biopsy) | Pathological Anatomy
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| Laboratory study of standardized tests on, body fluids, and secretions. (blood tests) | Clinical pathology
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| Studying the functional changes in the body resulting from disease | Physiological pathology
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| Deals with both medical and legal issues surrounding death | Medical-legal pathology
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| Post mortem exam | Autopsy
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| Any change in the structure or function of the body as a result of injury to the tissues | Disease
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| Rapid onset-short duration | Acute
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| Gradual onset-long duration | Chronic
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| Acute diseas that ends in death (heart attack) | Fulminating disease
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| Symptoms and signs of a disease reappear after a period of remission | Recurrent disease
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| A disease caused by a living microorganism | Infectious disease
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| Diseases which are easily transmitted from person-to-person | Contagious
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| Refers to the presence of macroscopic organisms in or on the body (ticks) | Infestation
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| Cause of disease is not known | Idiopathic
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| Disease results from the nature of ones working conditions (Coalminers disease) | Occupational
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| Diseases which are always present to some degree in a given area or community | Endemic
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| Diseases which are found to occur only occasionally in a community (polio) | Sporadic
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| Disease which affect a much larger than normal number of people in a community at one time | Epidemic
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| Diseases which affect the majority of the population in a very large area, possibly even worldwide (aids) | Pandemic
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| Refers to the number of cases of a disease within a certain population at a given time | Prevalence
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| Development of a disease after birth | Acquired disease
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| Present at or before birth | Congenital disease
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| A disease transmitted from parent to offspring. Genetic diseases are hereditary. | Hereditary disease
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| A disease characterized by the presence of a fever | Febrile disease
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| The state of being poisoned | Intoxication
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| A disease caused by the lack of some essential element | Deficience disease
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| One which results from a physicians treatment of patient | Iatrogenic
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| Any defect in formation, structure, or position of a body part | Malformations or anomalies
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| Absence of a body part | Aplasia
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| Under development of a body part | Hypoplasia
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| A defect in the walls of the lower part of the spinal cord. | Spina bifida
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| And excess number of fingers or toes | Polydactylism
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| Protrusion of an organ through the wall of the body cavity in which it is contained | Hernia
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| And abnormal tract or channel through the tissues, connecting one body cavity with another, or connecting a cavity with the surface of the body | Fistula
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| A sac-like structure, containing fluid or a semi-solid substance. | Cyst
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| Genetic defect resulting in various degrees of mental retardation, a dwarfed physique, and certain characteristic abnormalities of the head and extremities | Down's Syndrome (Monogolism)
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| Any change produced by a disease (cold sore, peptic ulcer, broken bone, abscess, chancres) | Lesion
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| Diseases have readily identifiable characteristic lesions | Organic disease
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| A disease with no apparent underlying organic disorder | Functional disease
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| Subjective manifestation of a disease. Those things which cannot be measured such as pain or malaise ("Just dont feel good") | Symptom
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| Objective manifestation of disease. Those things which can be measured such as blood pressure, body temperature, swelling, heart rate | Sign
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| A group of signs and symptoms that occur together. The sum of the signs and symptoms of any pathological condition | Syndrome
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| The determination of what disease exists. Analysis of patient history, signs, symptoms, and results of tests ordered by the physician | Diagnosis
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| The process by which a physician will rule out certain diseases with similar signs and symptoms so that an accurate determination can be made | Differential diagnosis
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| Prediction of the outcome of a disease | Prognosis
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| Abatement; temporary or permanent disappearance of signs and symptoms | Remission
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| A sudden increase in the severity of signs and symptoms | Exacerbation
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| Any unfavorable condition that may arise during a disease | Complication
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| The cause of a disease | Etiology
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| The development of a disease, what it causes, what changes it produces, and how it affects the structure | Pathogenesis
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| Remote aftereffects of disease. May appear 20 or 30 years after the acute stage. | Sequelae
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| A disease that arises during the course of another disease (Patient with cancer has a heart attack) | Intercurrent disease
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| Non-pus forming | Non-suppurative disease
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| A disease that can be transmitted from one person to another | Communicable disease
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| A state of hypersensitivity of the immune system; an overreaction to a harmless substance called an allergen | Allergy
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| A disease with no apparent underlying organic disorder | Functional disease
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| The various pathological processes indication some disturbance in cell metabolism | Regressive tissue change
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| Some sort of substance has infiltrated the tissues of the body and accumulated in abnormal amounts | Infiltration
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| When coloring matters pass into the tissues and accumulate, causing discoloration | Pigmentation
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| Coloring matter is from normal pigment present in the body | Endogenous
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| Pigment which entered the body from outside | Exogenous
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| Orange to yellowish pigment present in bile | Bilirubin
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| When bilirubin collects in the tissues causing a yellowish discoloration of the skins | Jaundice
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| Results from the hemolysis of red blood cells | Post-mortem stain
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| Abnormal amounts of melanin, accumulates in the tissues | Melanosis
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| Caused by coal dust | Anthracosis
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| Inhalation of stone dust (sandblasting) | Silicosis
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| Inhalation of cotton dust and related foreign materials (textile industry) | Byssinosis
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| Deterioration of cells within the body due to changes which occur within the cytoplasm of the cells and which affects their normal functions | Degeneration
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| Waxy, starch-like substance deposited in the tissues | Amyloid disease
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| The appearance cells take on when they are somewhat swollen and contain an abnormal amount of water. | Cloudy swelling (Cellular swelling)
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| When calcium is deposited within the tissues of the body with no attempt at bone formation | Pathological calcification
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| The decrease in size of a once normal body part | Atrophy
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| Decrease in size is normal, regular occurence in the human body | Physiological atrophy
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| Normal cell death with replacement | Necrobiosis
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| Cell death (gangrene) | Necrosis
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| No oxygen | Anoxia
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| Dry gangrene | Coagulation necrosis
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| Caused by saprophytic bacteria "eating" dead cells | Moist, wet, true gangrene
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| Various functional and structural problems which occur in the different organs of the body | Pathological atrophy
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| Without proper nutrients, maintenance of the normal structure, function, and size of the tissue may be impaired | Inadequate nutrition
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| Muscles require nervous stimulation to contract, create movement, and perform normal function; decreased in size due to loss of function | Inadequate nercous stimulation
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| Broken arm or leg with several weeks in cast | Disuse
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| The protection(antibodies)are made by the host | Active immunity
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| The protection comes from an outside source | Passive immunity
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| The study of neoplasms or tumors | Oncology
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| When an organ increases in size due to the failure of another organ (Kidney or lung) | Compensatory hypertrophy
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| Any new, abnormal growth of tissue in the dosy which serves no useful purpose | Neoplasm
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| A type of growth that is not neoplastic in nature. Increase in the size of a body part due to an increase in the size of individual cells | Hypertrophy
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| An increase in the size of a body part due to an increase in the number of cells in that organ | Hyperplasia
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| A replacement of one type of tissue in a mojor category by another type of tissue in that same category | Metaplasia
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| The more serious, life-threatening type; those we normally refer to as cancers | Malignant
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| Non-cancerous | Benign
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| Malignant tumors can spread from one body area to another | Metastasis
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| Any agent capable of causing cancer | Carcinogen
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| Smooth or involuntary muscle tissue | Leiomyoma
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| Voluntary muscle tissue | Rhabdomyoma
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