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homeostasis - Correct Answers ✅maintenance of constant
conditions in the body's internal environment
compensation - Correct Answers ✅the return to
homeostasis after being challenged by a stressor
Glycogenolysis - Correct Answers ✅breakdown of glycogen
to glucose
decompensation - Correct Answers ✅the failure to
compensate, adapt, doesn't return to homeostasis
disease - Correct Answers ✅harmful condition of the body
or mind
disorder - Correct Answers ✅disturbance in the healthiness
of the body
syndrome - Correct Answers ✅a collection of symptoms
risk factors - Correct Answers ✅decors that contribute to
or increase the probability that a disease will occur
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examples of risk factors - Correct Answers ✅smoking, age,
ethnicity, diet, environment
precipitating factors - Correct Answers ✅a condition or
event that triggers a pathologic event or disorder
examples of precipitating factors - Correct Answers
✅asthma attacks can be precipitated by exertion
etiology - Correct Answers ✅the cause of a disease,
includes all factors that contribute tot he development of the
disease
idiopathic - Correct Answers ✅disease with unidentifiable
cause
iatrogenic - Correct Answers ✅occurs as a result of
medical treatment
nosocomial infection - Correct Answers ✅hospital acquired
infection
clinical manifestations - Correct Answers ✅the
demonstration of the presence of a sign or symptom
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sign - Correct Answers ✅manifestations that can only be
objectively ideated by a trained
symptoms - Correct Answers ✅subjective manifestations
that can be only reported by the person experiencing them
local S&S - Correct Answers ✅redness, swelling, heat, rash
and lymphadenopathy in a particular area
system S&S - Correct Answers ✅fever, urticaria, malaise,
systemic lymphadenopathy
acute S&S - Correct Answers ✅fairly rapid appearance of
disease of several days, usually only last a short time
chronic S&S - Correct Answers ✅develop slowly and often
insidious and last longer
remissions - Correct Answers ✅periods when S&S
disappear of diminish signitcantly
exacerbations - Correct Answers ✅periods when S&S
become worse or more severe