Disease Terminology. Word Scramble
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Acute | Disease characterized by abrupt or sudden onset, usually w/ severe symptoms |
Chronic | Disease characterized by longer duration, often months or years. Symptoms less severe |
Communicable | Disease that is transmissible by direct or indirect contact with infection |
Complicating | Disease that occurs during or after an illness with the same cause |
Congenital | Disease present in baby's birth. |
Contagious | Highly transmissible disease |
Deficiency | Disease resulting from a failure to absorb vitamins or minerals from food |
Endemic | Re-occurring disease |
Epidemic | Disease that attacks simultaneously a large number of persons |
Functional | Disease in which no significant anatomical change in tissues or organs to account for the change in function |
Hereditary | Disease transmitted from parent to offspring genetically |
Idiopathic | Unknown cause of disease |
Occupational | Disease resulting directly or indirectly from the patient's job. |
Organic | Disease in which no significant anatomical changes in tissues or organs |
Pandemic | Disease occurring more or less over the entire world at the same time |
Primary | Term used in several ways to characterize disease |
Prognosis | Medical assessment of the probable outcome |
Psychosomatic | Disease seemed to be caused or worsened by pschological factors. |
Secondary | Disease resulting from a definite contributing factor |
Sporadic | Disease that occurs in isolated cases in a locality where it is neither endemic nor epidemic. |
Subacute | Disease characterized by an onset that is not as abrupt as in the acute form. With symptoms less severe and shorter duration. |
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