unit6 vocab test

Question 1

epidemiology

Answer 1

The science of tracking the instances or pattern of diseases

Question 2

chronic

Answer 2

Long-term, developing gradually with lesser symptoms, usually causing more permanent damage

Question 3

Acute

Answer 3

Short term, with extreme symptoms

Question 4

Communicable

Answer 4

infections that can be spread from one person to another

Question 5

Comorbidity

Answer 5

two or more coexisting but unrelated medical conditions

Question 6

complication

Answer 6

New additional (secondary) problems arising after an original disease begins.

Question 7

Diagnosis or Diagnoses

Answer 7

Identification of a specific disease via evaluation of signs and symptoms

Question 8

Diagnostic test or Diagnostic tests

Answer 8

Laboratory tests that assist in diagnosing a specific disease

Question 9

epidemic

Answer 9

outbreaks of disease that occur over a given area, with many cases of the disease

Question 10

etiology

Answer 10

the causative factors of a particular disease

Question 11

idiopathic

Answer 11

when the cause of illness or disease is unknown

Question 12

iatrogenic

Answer 12

when a treatment, procedure, or error is responsible for an illness/disease

Question 13

exacerbation

Answer 13

increased signs of disease

Question 14

latent

Answer 14

an initial “silent disease stage, in which no clinical signs are evident

Question 15

lesion

Answer 15

a specific local change in tissue that may be microscopic or highly visible

Question 16

occurrence

Answer 16

the tracking of a disease by number of new cases and prevalence (number of existing cases)

Question 17

predisposing factor

Answer 17

those that indicate a high risk for a disease but not certain development

Question 18

Probability

Answer 18

the likelihood that something will occur

Question 19

prodromal

Answer 19

the time in early disease development when a patient is aware of nonspecific change in the body

Question 20

Prognosis

Answer 20

the likelihood for recovery or other outcomes

Question 21

recovery

Answer 21

Period of recuperation or convalescence and return to normal health

Question 22

remission

Answer 22

subsiding disease symptoms, when signs and symptoms of a disease are no longer evident

Question 23

Sequelae

Answer 23

potential unwanted outcomes of a primary condition

Question 24

sign or signs

Answer 24

objective indicators of disease that are obvious to others

Question 25

subacute

Answer 25

state of disease that is “in the middle” of the process:; it has a rather recent onset or relatively rapid change

Question 26

subclinical

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a state existing in some pathologic conditions wherein no obvious clinical developments occur

Question 27

symptom or symptoms

Answer 27

subjective feelings of disease or condition