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Pathology - ✔✔study of disease || || || ||




Disease - ✔✔Any abnormal disturbance of the function or structure of the human body as a
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result of some type of injury
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Pathogenesis - ✔✔development of disease; The sequence of events producing cellular
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changes that lead to manifestations
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Symptom - ✔✔Any subjective evidence of a disease as perceived by the patient
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manifestation - ✔✔Observable changes resulting from the cellular changes and the disease
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process



Sign - ✔✔And objective manifestation that is detected by the physician during examination
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Syndrome - ✔✔A group of signs and symptoms that characterizes a specific abnormal
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disturbance



asymptomatic - ✔✔showing no symptoms of disease || || || || || ||




Etiology - ✔✔study of the cause of disease
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Nosocomial - ✔✔Hospital acquired disease or infection || || || || || ||

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Iatrogenic - ✔✔Adverse responses to medical treatment
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Idiopathic - ✔✔No causative factor to be identified
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Acute - ✔✔Quick onset but last a short period of time
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Chronic - ✔✔Disease manifest more slowly but last for a very long time
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Sequelae - ✔✔a problem resulting from a disease or injury
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Diagnosis - ✔✔The identification of a disease an individual is believed to have
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Prognosis - ✔✔The predicted course and outcome of the disease
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Morphology - ✔✔The structure of cells or tissue || || || || || || ||




Subtractive/lytic/destructive - ✔✔Tissue composition altered in decreasing the atomic || || || || || || || || ||




number which changes skin thickness; Thinner skin
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Additive/sclerotic - ✔✔Pathologic conditions cause an increase in normal density of tissue
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resulting in a higher atomic number; Thicker skin
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Epidemiology - ✔✔The investigation of disease in large groups
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Prevalence - ✔✔Refers to the number of cases found in a given population
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