Classify disease Flashcards

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Acute Disease

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disease in which symptoms develop more rapidly and runs its course quickly

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Chronic Disease

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usually mild symptoms that develop slowly and last a long time

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Subacute Disease

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with time course and symptoms between acute and chronic

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Asymptomatic Disease

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without symptoms

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Latent Disease

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appears a long time after infection

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Communicable disease

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transmitted from one host to the other

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Contagious Disease

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easily spread

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Noncommunicable Disease

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arising from outside hosts or disease form opportunistic pathogen

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Local Infection

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Confined to a small region of the body

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Systemic Infection

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Widespread infection in many systems of the body, often travels in the blood or lymph

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Focal Infection

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serves as a source of pathogens for infections at other sites in the body

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Primary Infection

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initial infection within a given patient

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Secondary Infection

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Infections that follow a primary infection; often by opportunistic pathogens

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