homeostasis - Answers a balanced or constant internal state
asymptomatic - Answers without symptoms
pathology - Answers the scientific study of disease
symptoms - Answers Subjective characteristics of disease by the patient
signs - Answers abnormal objective findings
syndrome - Answers signs and symptoms
pathogenisis - Answers development of disease
acute - Answers less severe symptoms over a brief course
chronic - Answers slow, intermittent disease development
systemic health - Answers internal equilibrium
fluid and electrolyte imbalance - Answers failure to maintain proper amounts or kinds of fluids and
minerals in the body
acidosis - Answers excessive acidity of body fluids
alkalosis - Answers high pH
neoplasm - Answers growing mass of abnormal cells that proliferates at the expense of a healthy
organism.
predisposing factors - Answers Risk factors
acute inflammation - Answers short term response to injury (accompanied by redness, heat, swelling,
pain, and loss of function)
erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) - Answers speed at which erythrocytes settle out of plasma
C-reactive protein (CRP) - Answers a blood test marker used to detect inflammatory disorders
pathogens - Answers disease causing agents
ischemia - Answers lack of blood supply
necrosis - Answers tissue death
exudative - Answers fluid that filters from the circulatory system into areas of inflammation
phagocytic - Answers the process by which cells surround and digest certain particles
, infectious disease - Answers caused by pathogens
disease causing organisms - Answers causes tissue damage by invasion and local destruction
of living tissue and production of substances that are poisonous to the body.
endogenous - Answers infection originating within the body
exogenous - Answers infection originating outside the body
pathogenic agents - Answers bacteria, viruses, fungi, protozoa
natural defence systems against infection - Answers natural mechanical/chemical barriers, the
inflammatory
response, the immune response.
analgesis - Answers pain reliever
antipyretic - Answers reduces fever
encephalitis - Answers brain inflammation
syphilis - Answers bacterial infection spread by sexual contact
cellulitis - Answers bacterial skin infection
pneumonia - Answers inflammation of the lungs
chromosomes - Answers threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain genes
sex chromosomes - Answers X and Y chromosomes
autosomes - Answers non-sex chromosomes
genotype - Answers genetic code
karyotype - Answers an ordered display of chromosomes
genes - Answers basic units of heredity, small stretches of a DNA molecule, situated at chromosome
genetic disease - Answers caused by abnormality in genetic code of a single gene, several abnormal
genes, by abnormal presence/absence of entire chromosome; by alteration in the structure of
chromosomes.
polygenic disease - Answers caused by several genes
genetic mutations - Answers changes in genetic code