Important Reference Terms

Question 1

Acute

Answer 1

condition that is brief and severe

Question 2

Ambulatory

Answer 2

capable of walking; not confined to bed

Question 3

Anomaly

Answer 3

irregularity; deviation from normal

Question 4

Atrophy

Answer 4

the process of wasting away of the body or its parts. It also can mean without nutrition

Question 5

Benign

Answer 5

disease that is not malignant

Question 6

Chronic

Answer 6

condition that lasts a long time; reoccurring

Question 7

Clinical

Answer 7

direct bedsides treatment; observation of signs and symptoms; and observation of the disease course

Question 8

Diagnosis

Answer 8

identification of a disease; having total (dia-) knowledge (-gnosis) of the disease

Question 9

Malignant

Answer 9

condition that beocmes progressively worse and may result in death

Question 10

Metastatic

Answer 10

is the spreading from one body location to another location - abbreviation stat means immediate or keep stationary

Question 11

Prognosis

Answer 11

prediction based on knowledge before it happens

Question 12

Sign

Answer 12

observable occurrence that indicates a disease

Question 13

Symptoms

Answer 13

patient descries to physician what he or she is experience

Question 14

Syndrome

Answer 14

group of signs and symptoms that run together

Question 15

Systemic

Answer 15

involving systems; affects total body