Unit 1: Homeostatis and Disease Definitions

Question 1

Acute

Answer 1

Short-term
(Deals with onset and duration)

Question 2

Chronic

Answer 2

Long term Dysfunction (6 months +)
- Can tend to be slower in developing, sometimes can follow an acute condition

Question 3

Complications

Answer 3

Series of things that surround the issue, leading to unforeseen negative events
(Broken leg leads to hemorrhaging)

Question 4

Convalescence

Answer 4

Time spent recovering from an illness or injury

Question 5

Diagnosis

Answer 5

Result of a medical condition

Question 6

Disease

Answer 6

Harmful deviation from the normal state of an organis

Question 7

Epidemics

Answer 7

An unexpected increase in the number of disease cases in a specific geographical area (yellow fever, small pox)

Question 8

Endemic

Answer 8

Something that is everywhere, comes and goes.
Ex; flu, tuberculosis (in Ontario dairy cattle)

Question 9

Epidemiology

Answer 9

Epidemiology is the method used to find the causes of health outcomes and diseases in populations. In epidemiology, the patient is the community and individuals are viewed collectively.

Question 10

Etiology

Answer 10

The cause of a disease

Question 11

Homeostasis

Answer 11

the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes.

Question 12

Iatrogenic

Answer 12

Iatrogenic is something that happens in the process of another medical treatment. Such as incorrect prescription, you become infected if HCP doesn’t wash hands, or wrong kidney removed in surgery.

Question 13

Idiopathic

Answer 13

Disease arising from unknown cause
(Idiots don’t know nothing)

Question 14

Incidence (linked with prevalence)

Answer 14

Incidence is the rate at which new cases occur in a population at a specific time, prevalence is how many people have the disease
Ex;
-if 50,00 people have a disease, that is the prevalence
-if 2000 people got the disease in a new that is the incidence

Question 15

Latent

Answer 15

This means to be present but not yet symptomatic

Question 16

Lesion

Answer 16

Region or organ tissue suffering damage such as a wound, ulcer, abscess or tumour.
Broad term; can be pimple, bruise, etc.

Question 17

Clinical Manifestations

Answer 17

Symptoms. For example asthma: coughing, wheezing, SOB

Question 18

Morbidity

Answer 18

The condition of suffering from a disease or medical condition
- How sick does it make you?
- Disease that transform into larger epidemic pandemic are the most dangerous with a low morbidity.

Question 19

Mortality

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Mortality is the condition of one day having to die or the rate of failure or loss
- Will it kill you?

Question 20

Pathogenesis

Answer 20

Manner and development of disease

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Pathophysiology

Answer 21

Disordered physiological processes of associated with disease or injury

Question 22

Precipitating Factors

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Precipitating factors refer to a specific event or trigger to the onset of the current problem. (This and this happened which resulted in this). Problem becomes developed because of past. EX: someone suffered a traumatic event, now they have anxiety and depression.

Question 23

Predisposing Factors

Answer 23

Predisposing characteristics were seen to include demographic factors (age and gender), social structure (education, occupation, ethnicity).

Question 24

Prodromal

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Relating to or denoting the period between the appearance of initial symptoms and the full development of a rash or fever.
The term “prodrome “ refers to the early stage and symptoms of any condition. Here, a person might notice changes in the way they feel, think, or behave.

Question 25

Prognosis

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Diagnosis refers to something that is already there (ex; you have cancer), prognosis on the otherhand, describes the likelihood of your disease (e.g; outcomes).

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Remissions

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Remission means that the signs and symptoms of your cancer are reduced. Remission can be partial or complete. In a complete remission, all signs and symptoms of cancer have disappeared. ( If you remain in complete remission for 5 years or more, some doctors may say that you are cured.)

Question 27

Exacerbation

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Exacerbation may refer to an increase in the severity of a disease or its signs and symptoms

Question 28

Sequelae

Answer 28

A condition which is the consequence of a previous disease or injury.
Ex; viral resp infection may be because of bacterial resp infection, sequelae of heart disease might stem from lymphatic issues

Question 29

Subclinical

Answer 29

A subclinical disease has no recognizable clinical findings.

Question 30

Syndrome

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Group of signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a particular abnormality or condition.

Question 31

Allostasis

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Processes that supports homeostasis when life and/our environement change (internal and or external)

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Allostatic Load

Answer 32

The wear and tear on our body from over and underactivation of our body’s compensatory mechanisms

Question 33

Allostatic overload

Answer 33

the “cost” to the body organs and tissues from allostatic, or compensatory responses that are excessive or not adequately regulated

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Contraindicated

Answer 35

Things that make condiiton worse and create complications

Question 36

Demographic

Answer 36

Who’s involved

Question 37

Stenosis

Answer 37

Narrowing causing pressure
To correct a stenosis you put in a stent

Question 38

Sign vs. Symptom

Answer 38

-Symptom is subjective, things you CANNOT measure.
- Signs are more objective, things that you CAN measure.

Question 39

Trauma

Answer 39

Getting hurt