Health and Disease Flashcards
1
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Define Pathology
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Study of diesease; cause, development, progress
2
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Aetiology
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cause of disease
3
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Pathogenesis
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how a disease develops
4
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symptom
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what a patient feels
5
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Sign
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our observations
6
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diagnosis
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defining abnormailty consistently by nature of signs/symptoms
7
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prognosis
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predicion of outcome
8
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What are diseases?
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Dynamic, continously evolving with a natural history
9
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natural history
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the progression of a disease process in an individual over time, in the absence of treatment
10
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Classify disease into 7 broad catagories
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- Inflammation - succesion of changes occuring in living tissue when injured, response to insult and protective agaist further damege
- Circulatory Distunbance - Abnormalities of flow, vessel wall, components of blood
- Disorders of growth - Abnormal cell growth; maturation, differentiation, quantity, control
- Degenerative Disorders - Heterogeneous group, abnormailites of tissues and organs
- Developmental - abnormalities of gametogenesis, abnormalities of embryogenesis
- Psychological - phychosis, neurosis, intellectual disability
- Unnatural conditions - traumatic (accidental or deliberate; broken bone), latrogenic (treatment related; immunosuppression in chemotheraphy for malignacy
