Ch 14 Principles Of Diesease & Epidemiology Flashcards
Changes in body function that is felt by the patient as a result of a disease is a ____
Symptom
Change in body function that can be observed or measured as a result of a disease
Sign
A specific group of signs and symptoms that accompany a disease
Syndrome
A communicable disease is one that spreads ____ one ____ to ____.
Communicable disease is one that spreads from one host to another
Contagious disease is one that ____ spreads from ____ host to _____
Contagious disease is one that coreada easily from one host to another
Noncommunicable disease is one ____ transmitted from one host to another.
Non communicable disease is one not transmitted from one host to another.
Sporadic disease is one that occurs ____ in a _____ that doesn’t cause much problems.
Sporadic disease occurs occasionally in a population that doesn’t cause much problems
Immunity in most of a population is called
Herd immunity
“Number of new cases” in occurrence of diseases is called
Incidence
When a fraction of a population contract a new disease during a specific time is called
Incidence
Fraction of a population HAVING a specific disease at a given time is called
Prevalence
An ____ disease develops rapidly but last a short time
Acute disease develops rapidly but last a short time
A ___ disease develops slowly and is likely to contiene for a long time
A chronic disease develops slowly and is likely to continue for a long period of time
A ____ disease is one that has symptoms between acutely and chronic
Subacute disease has symptoms between acute and chronic
A ____ disease is one that has no symptoms when causative agent is inactive but then becomes active to produce symptoms of a disease
A latent disease is one that shows no signs or symptoms when causative agent is inactive but then becomes active to produce symptoms of disease
____ _____ when pathogens are limited to a small area of body
Local infection
____ ____ is an infection throughout the body
Systemic infection is an infection throughout the body
____ ____ is a systemic infection that started off as a local infection
Focal infection is a systemic infection that began as local