Module 3-The Structure of Medicine

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referred by the actual practice of

medicine in the diagnosis and treatment of disease

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Clinical Medicine

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is a body of information collected to
learn of past events that might relate to the patient’s
health or illness.

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Medical History

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Medical History includes:

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• Presenting symptoms of chief complaint
• History of present illness, if illness is present
• Past history
• Family history
• Social history

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act of listening to the sounds produced by

internal organs

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Auscultation

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instrument for listening to sounds in the

chest and many other areas of the body

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Stethoscope

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act of looking into or looking at the patient, either directly or indirectly through various instruments.

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Inspection

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instrument for viewing the inside of the

eye

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Ophthalmoscope

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act of touching or feeling specific areas of the

patient’s body

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Palpation

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act of striking various parts of the body to
determine the quality of sounds produced, reflexes or
nerve reactions, or the existence of tenderness

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Percussion

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measured to complete the total evaluation of

the person’s state of health.

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Vital signs

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Vital signs measured are the:

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• Temperature
• Respiratory rate
• Pulse rate
• Blood pressure

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sharp; one condition that is brief and severe

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Acute

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involving systems; a systemic disease affects

the body as a whole

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Systemic

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able to walk

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Ambulatory

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a group of signs and symptoms that usually

occur together

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Syndrome

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irregularity, a deviation from normal

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Anomaly

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an indication of something that occurs with a

particular disease process

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Symptom

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wasting away of the body or of an organ or part

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Atrophy

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observable occurrence

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Sign

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good; a disease that is not malignant

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Benign

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a predicton of the course of a disease process

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Prognosis

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time-related; one condition that lasts a long time

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Chronic

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“next place”; a disease that spreads from one

place to the next

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Metastatic

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a sick bed or area where sick persons are confined

or go to for diagnosis and treatment of disease

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Clinic

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bad; a condition that becomes progressively

worse and may result in death

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Malignant

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related to examination in a clinic, resulting in

diagnosis and treatment

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Clinical

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identification of a disease

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Diagnosis

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bol-

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ball

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carcino(o)

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cancer

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ede-

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swelling

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febr-

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fever

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fiss-

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split

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fistula

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small pipe

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hernia

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protrusion

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infect

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contaminate

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inflammation

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burning

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lesion

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harm

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lip

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fat

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lith-

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stone, calculus

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necro-

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death

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obesity

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fatness

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patho-

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disease

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phthi-

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decay

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polyp

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many feet

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pur

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pus

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pyo-

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pus

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pyr-

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fever

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scar

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mark

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stear-, steat-

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fat

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steno-

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narrowing

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strict-

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draw tight

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struct-

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clogged

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tract-

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draw, drag

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trauma

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wound, injury

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tuber-

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swelling

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tumor

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swelling

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ulcer

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sore

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ball or clot of blood in a

vessel

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embolism

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cancerous tumor

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carcinoma

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abnormal collection of fluid in the tissues of the body

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edema

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feverish condition

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febrile

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cleft, split, or groove that may or may not be normal

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fissure

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abnormal passage between two internal organs

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fistula

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protrusion of an organ or part of organ

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hernia

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Contaminate with disease-producing germs

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infect

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Condition in which there is a burning or destruction of

the cells of the body

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inflammation

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Injury, wound, or area of disease

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lesion

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tumor made of fat

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lipoma

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incision made to remove a stone

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lithotomy

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death of tissue

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necrosis

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there is excessive fat around the body

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obesity

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study of diseases

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pathology

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wasting away of the body or part of the body

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phthisis

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shortened form of the world polypus

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polyp

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containing pus

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purulent

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to discharge pus

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suppurate

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cyst containing pus

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pyocyst

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state of having fever

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pyrexia

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mark left by a healed wound; may be internal or external

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scar

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there is excessive fat in buttocks

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steatopygia

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narrowing condition

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stenosis

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a vessel is narrowed, walls of an organ are drawn together

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constriction

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there is a clog in a normal passageway

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obstruction

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parts of an organ are drawn together

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contract

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condition in which there is injury to more than one part of the body

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multiple trauma

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characterized by appearance of small swellings

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tuberculosis

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growth of tissue from a disease rate

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tumor

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sore that is open on the surface of the body or on a wall of an internal organ

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ulcer

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term commonly used for treatment of disease

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Therapy

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phase of medicine that deals with the treatment of disease.

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Therapeutics

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Two general categories of treatment:

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• Surgical

- Internal medicine

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involves art and practice of treating diseases, injuries, and deformities by operation or by application of devices internally or externally

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Surgical

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deals with the treatment of diseases that are treated with drugs or other nonsurgical types of treatment; commonly referred to as medical therapy

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Internal medicine

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chemical substance administered to a person

to treat a disease

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Drug

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root word meaning drug

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pharm/o

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goal is to cure a disease

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Curative medicine

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efforts taken to prevent disease

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Disease prevention

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goal in which a chronic disease is managed to allow the patient to live with the disease and to prevent some complications of the disease

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Disease management

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an approach by health professionals in which maintaining or improving a person’s health is the goal of the action taken

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Health promotion

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goal is aimed at covering the symptoms of a disease, rather than trying to cure the disease

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Palliative medicine

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goal is to restore a person’s functional state to the highest level of independence possible.

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Rehabilitation medicine

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goal is to restore one or more functions of the body

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Restorative medicine

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taken to find out more about the patient, the disease, the environment, or any other factor that may affect the patient

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Diagnostic

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goal is to help the patient and others learn what they need to do to participate in caring for their own health or illness

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Education

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one in which a treatment is given to a patient

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Therapeutic

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condition in which a natural body structure was not produced

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Agenesis

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disease caused by bacteria

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Bacterial

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disease in which the natural course leads to death

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Cancer

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condition or defect that a child is born with

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Congenital

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characterized by a breakdown in the structure of a part

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Degenerative

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a disease occurring in a particular group of people

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Endemic

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disease that is spread over a large number of people in an area

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Epidemic

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condition in which a disease becomes increasingly severe

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Exacerbation

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disease caused by fungus

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Fungal

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condition caused by disease-producing worms

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Helminthic

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disease that is a side effect of a prescribed treatment

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Iatrogenic/ Introgenic

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a disease that is peculiar to one person; a

disease of unknown cause

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Idiopathic

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disease that makes its way into a person; a disease that is spread from one person to another

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Infectious

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disease in which new cells are formed; this type is referred to as cancer

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Neoplastic

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disease that originates in a hospital or other

institution designed to care for sick people

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Nosocomial

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treatment that is directed at the symptom of the disease, rather than curing the disease

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Palliation

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disease that is spread all over the people; a widespread disease

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Pandemic

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disease caused by a parasite

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Parasitic

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presence in the blood of organisms or poisons from those organisms capable of producing a breakdown of body tissues

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Sepsis

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wound either to the body or mind

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Trauma

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disease caused by a virus

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Viral

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caused by a virus capable of moving its own DNA backward into the DNA of a host cell and becoming part of that host cell. When the cell divides, it divides as if it were the virus

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Retroviral