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Chapter 2 Diseases And Disorders: Diagnostic And Therapeutic Terms Flashcards

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The scientific study of life

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Biology

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The condition of physical, mental, and social well-being and the absence of disease or other abnormal conditions

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Health

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The study of characteristics, causes, and effects of disease

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Pathology

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Adjective that pertains to a condition that is caused by or involves a disease process is called

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Pathologic

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Abnormal process in which aspects of the social, physical, emotional, or intellectual condition or function of a person are diminished or impaired

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Illness

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What is a general term for impairment

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Disease

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What is a specific illness called?

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A disease or disorder

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____ refers to either structurally or functionally abnormal processes, whereas a ___ tends to describe a disruption in function

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Disease

Disorder

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What is defined as a condition of abnormal structure or function of the body?

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Disease

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What is defined as a disruption or interference with normal functions?

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Disorder

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A mental disorder is a disturbance of emotional equilibrium and represents a disturbance in____

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Function

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A disease that only last a short time is a ____disease

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Acute

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It is important to remember that organic diseases, unlike functional disorders, are associated with a demonstrable ___change

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Physical

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Name the classification of diseases according to cause

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Infectious, genetic, traumatic, degenerative, neoplastic, metabolic, inflammatory

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What does degenerative mean when classifying a disease?

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Deterioration of structure or function

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What does neoplastic mean when classifying diseases?

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Malignancies, abnormal tissue growths or tumors

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What are organic diseases associated with?

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A demonstrable physical change in an organ or tissue for example a tumor

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What are functional disorders associated with?

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They are marked by signs or symptoms but no physical changes (for example most psychological disorders)

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How are infectious diseases caused?

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Disease causing organisms

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What is the cause of genetic diseases?

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Altered or mutated genes, the units of inheritance

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What is the cause of degenerative disease?

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Deterioration of structure or function

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What is the cause of metabolic disease?

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Endocrine and balances or malnutrition

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What is the cause of inflammatory disease?

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Abnormal or prolonged inflammation or auto immunity, altered function of the immune system against one’s own cell

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What develops without an apparent or known cause, for example high blood pressure for which there is no known cause

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Idiopathic disease

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Idi(o)

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Individual

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What disorder is an unfavorable response to medical treatment, for example a transfusion reaction

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Iatrogenic Disorder

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What are hospital acquired infections called? For example an infection of a surgical wound

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Nosocomial infections

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Iatr(o)

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Physician or treatment

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Nos(o)

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Disease

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Nosocomial infections was not present or incubating before patients admission to hospital and is acquired ____hours or longer after admission

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72

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Conditions that exist at, or before, birth; for example club foot

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Congenital

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A deviation from what is regarded as normal, especially as a result of congenital defects

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An anomaly

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Aut(o)

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Self

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Bi(o)

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Life or living

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Dipl(o)

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Double

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Gen(o)

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Beginning or origin

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Anti-

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Against

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Intra-

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Within

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Micro-

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Small

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-cidal

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Killing

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-emia

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Condition of the blood

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-gen

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That which generates

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-genesis

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Producing or forming

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-genic

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Produced by or in

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Capable of causing or producing a disease

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Pathogenic

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Tiny entities, which may or may not be pathogenic

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Microorganisms

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The branch of science concerned with the study of micro organisms, which include viruses, bacteria, fungi, and protozoa

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Microbiology

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If micro organisms are pathogenic they are called what?

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Pathogens

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The degree to which microorganisms cause disease is referred to as what?

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Virulence and pathogenicity

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What is another word for communicable disease?

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Contagious disease

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How are contagious diseases transmitted?

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  • Directly by contact (discharges or airborn droplets)
  • indirectly via substances (blood borne transmission through contact with blood or body fluids that are contaminated with blood) or inanimate objects such as a contaminated spoon
  • via carriers called vectors (mosquitoes)
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A contagious disease is also called a

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Communicable disease

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Seps(o)

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Infection

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Sept(i), sept(o)

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Infection

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Bacter(i), bacteri(o)

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Bacteria

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Fung(i), myc(o)

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Fungus

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Parasit(o)

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Parasite

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Staphyl(o)

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Grapelike cluster, uvula

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Strept(o)

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Twisted

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Vir(o), virus(o)

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Virus

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What is an infection?

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Invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms

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___is an infection which has spread to the circulating blood from an infection in any part of the body

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Septicemia

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_____is the presence of bacteria in the blood

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Bacteremia

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____ is the presence of viruses in the blood

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Viremia

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What is a minute microorganism that replicates only within a cell of living plant or animal

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A virus

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Small unicellular organisms

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Bacteria

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How do microbiologists classify bacteria?

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According to their shape

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Three major types of bacteria

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Cocci, bacilli, or spirilla or spirochetes

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What is a special staining technique that serves as a primary means of identifying and classifying bacteria?

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Gram stain

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What are coiled spiral bacteria called?

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Spirilla

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What are rod shaped bacteria called?

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Bacilli

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Spherical shaped bacteria are called what?

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Cocci

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An often fatal form of food poisoning

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Botulism

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Anaerobic

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Growing in the absence of oxygen

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Is whooping cough viral or bacterial?

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Bacterial

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Is syphilis viral or bacterial?

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Bacterial

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Is tetanus viral or bacterial?

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Bacterial

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Is COVID-19 viral or bacterial?

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Viral

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Is influenza viral or bacterial?

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Viral

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Is gentian herpes viral or bacterial?

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Viral

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What are microorganisms that feed by absorbing organic molecules from their surroundings?

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Fungi

Yeasts and molds are included in this group

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What are the simplest organisms of the animal kingdom?

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Protozoa

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What is malaria?

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An infectious illness that infects the blood

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Four general types of microorganisms

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Bacteria, fungi, Protozoa, viruses

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a.c

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Before meals (ante cibum)

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ACS

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American Cancer Society

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ad lib.

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Freely as needed, at pleasure (ad libitum)

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aq.

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Water (aqua)

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