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Etiology - ANSWER ✔✔cause(s) or reason(s) for a disease
Pathogenesis - ANSWER ✔✔development of or evolution of a
disease, from the initial stimulus to the final stage of the disease
manifestations - ANSWER ✔✔signs & symptoms
Idiopathic - ANSWER ✔✔the causes of the condition are unknown
Iatrogenic - ANSWER ✔✔disease/condition was caused
unintentionally by a medical treatment
, risk factor - ANSWER ✔✔if this etiological factor is present, the
probability of disease development is increased
clinical manifestations - ANSWER ✔✔indications that the disease
exists in a person
signs - ANSWER ✔✔observed and measured through clinical
examination or by biochemical analysis or diagnostic imaging
symptoms - ANSWER ✔✔subjective feelings of an abnormality in the
body; reported by the affected individual
incubation period - ANSWER ✔✔the interval between exposure to an
injurious agent and the first appearance of signs and symptoms
prodromal period - ANSWER ✔✔the appearance of the first signs
and symptoms - onset of disease
acute phase - ANSWER ✔✔disease reaches full intensity - greatest
severity of signs and symptoms
silent or latent period - ANSWER ✔✔if signs and symptoms become
mild or absent disappear during the course of disease
subclinical stage - ANSWER ✔✔disease is well established but
patient functions normally