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Key Medical Terminology
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Key Medical Terminology
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Acute: How would you define an acute condition?
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Onset quick, duration short (e.g., influenza)
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Autoimmune: What characterizes an autoimmune disease?
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Body attacks its own tissue like a foreign antigen
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Benign: What does benign mean in disease terms?
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Not cancerous; generally favorable survival
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Chronic: What defines a chronic condition?
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Slow onset; lifelong (e.g., HTN, MS, Type II DM)
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Congenital: When is a congenital condition present?
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At birth; may be genetic or environmental in origin
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Convalescence: What is convalescence?
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Period of gradual recovery after illness or injury
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Debilitating: What does debilitated mean?
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Causing weakness or fatigue; limiting function
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Endemic: How is an endemic disease limited?
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Ongoing within a population/geographic area
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Endogenous: Where does endogenous originate?
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From within the body (e.g., circulatory, diabetes impact)
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Epidemic: What defines an epidemic?
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Sudden, widespread outbreak in a population or area
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Etiology: What is etiology?
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Study/cause of a disease or condition
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Exogenous: What is exogenous origin?
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Originates outside the body (trauma, infection)
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Genetic: What does genetic mean in disease terms?
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Inherited from parents or genetic origin
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Hypersensitivity: What is hypersensitivity?
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Exaggerated immune response to an antigen
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Iatrogenic: What does iatrogenic mean?
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Adverse condition from medical intervention
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Idiopathic: What does idiopathic imply?
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Unknown cause of a disease
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Immunological: What does immunological pertain to?
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Reaction between antigen and antibody
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Infectious: What makes a disease infectious?
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Capable of causing infection
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Inflammatory: What characterizes inflammation?
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Redness, heat, fever, swelling; tissue response
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Ischemic/Ischemia: What is ischemia?
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Temporary blood flow deficiency to tissue/organ
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Malaise: What is malaise?
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General unease or discomfort of unclear cause
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Malignant: What defines malignancy?
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Spreads; worsens; may be life-threatening (cancerous)
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Metabolic: What is a metabolic disorder?
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Disorder of metabolism affecting energy production
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Metastasis: What is metastasis?
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Spread of cancer cells to distant sites
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Neoplastic: What does neoplastic refer to?
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New abnormal tissue growth; can be benign or malignant
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Nosocomial: What is a nosocomial infection?
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Hospital-acquired infection not present at admission
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Nutritional: What does nutritional relate to?
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Chemistry of processing ingested food in the body
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Opportunistic: When does an opportunistic pathogen cause disease?
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When host immunity is weakened
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Pandemic: How is a pandemic defined?
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Disease outbreak across regions/worldwide
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Prophylaxis: What is prophylaxis?
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Measures to prevent disease