Terminology Flashcards
Define Informed Consent
Doctors will give a patient information about a particular treatment or test, including both the risks and benefits, in order for the patient to decide whether or not they wish to undergo a treatment or test.
Define iatrogenic
Relating to illness caused by medical examination or treatment
Define paternalism
The policy or practice on the part of people in positions of authority of restricting the freedom and responsibilities of those subordinate to them in the subordinates’ supposed best interest
Define “Inoculation”
The act of introducing an antigenic substance (stimulates the production of antibodies) into the body to produce an immune system reaction to a specific disease
Define “Variolation”
A procedure that entails inoculating a susceptible person with material taken from a vesicle (a blister formed in or beneath the skin) of someone who has smallpox (orthodox Barilla virus), to try to prevent smallpox in the susceptible person
Define “vaccination”
A) From vacca, the Latin word for cow: Inoculation of cowpox virus (orthopox vaccinia virus) with the intention of protecting against smallpox virus. Also known as cowpoxing.
B) today the term has been used to describe many other types of inoculations: a preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen, such as a bacterium or a virus, or of a portion of the pathogen’s structure that, upon administration, stimulated antibody production or humoral immunity against the pathogen
Define “Immunization”
A process that induces an immune response to a specific disease by exposing the individual to a natural or laboratory derived antigen. The goal of the process is to raise antibodies to a specific antigen.
You can be vaccinated, but if there is no immunity, you are not immunized. You can be unvaccinated, but if you have had the disease and have protection, you are immune; therefore you are immunized.
