Pathology terms

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Disease

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Condition of abnormal function involving anatomic structures or body systems and characterized by a recognizable set of signs and symptoms.

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Pathology

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The study of disease

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Diagnosis

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Scientific evaluation of physical signs and symptoms, and medical history, that leads to identifying a particular disease.

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Prognosis

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Prediction of how the disease will progress and the chances of recovery based on the person’s condition and the usual course of the disease observed in similar situations.

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Etiology

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Causative factors or origins of a disease.

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Risk Factor

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Tendencies that promote disease development.

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Local Disease

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Disease that affects only one area of the body.

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Signs

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Objective indicator of disease that is obvious to someone other than the affected individual.

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Symptoms

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Subjective feelings of which only the person experiencing them is aware.

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Syndrome

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A combination of signs and symptoms, that together, represent a disease process.

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Systemic

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Affecting the entire body.

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Acute

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Abrupt onset of a certain condition.

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Chronic

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In medicine, a condition lasting longer than three months.

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Remission

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Disappearance of the signs and symptoms of a disease.

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Exacerbation

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Worsening of the condition.

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Epidemic

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The occurrence of more cases of a disease than would be expected in a community or region during a given period of time.

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Pandemic

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An epidemic that becomes very widespread and affects a whole region, a continent, or the world, due to a susceptible population.

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Morbidity

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The rate at which a disease occurs within a group or area.

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Mortality

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Number of deaths resulting from a disease within a given time period.

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Incidence

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The frequency at which something, such as a disease or trait, appears in a particular population or area.

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Autoimmune disease

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An illness that occurs when the body tissues are attacked by its own immune system.

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Prevalence

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Number of all existing cases, new and old, of a disease within a particular population.

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Degenerative disease

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A disease that causes the breakdown or eventual loss of function or body part.

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Genetic disease

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A disease caused by an abnormality in the genome.

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Jaundice

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Yellow staining of the skin and sclerae by abnormally high blood levels of bilirubin.