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Etiology
✓ -:- cause & reason behind the disease
Idiopathic
✓ -:- cause is unknown
Iatrogenic
✓ -:- medically induced
-cause results from unintended or unwanted medical treatment
-results from an infection while in hospital
-can be caused by medication
Risk factor
✓ -:- A factor that when present increases the likelihood of disease
Pathogenesis
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✓ -:- Development or evolution of disease from initial stimulus to ultimate
expression of manifesting of disease
Symptoms
✓ -:- subjective feeling of abnormality in the body
Signs
✓ -:- Objective or observed manifestation of disease
Syndrome
✓ -:- a set of signs and symptoms not yet determined to delineate a disease
and occur together
Latent period
✓ -:- time between exposure of tissue to injurious agent and FIRST
appearance of signs/or symptoms
Prodomal period
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✓ -:- time during which first signs and/or symptoms appear or onset of
disease occurs
Latent period (2)
✓ -:- Also refers to a period during an ill ness when signs/symptoms
temporarily become mild or silent
Subclinical stage
✓ -:- patient functions normally; disease processes are well established.
Acute clinical course
✓ -:- short-lived; may have severe manifestation
Chronic clinical course
✓ -:- may last months to years, sometimes following an acute course
Illness and disease do not?
✓ -:- Always coexist. Illness is the symptomatic and debilitating stage of a
disease.
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-Lytic
✓ -:- break down of the clot.
Syphilis
✓ -:- Can occur between latent & prodromal period and between
prodromal and latent period.
Remission
✓ -:- decrease in severity, signs, or symptoms; may indicate disease is
cured.
Exacerbation
✓ -:- increase in severity,signs, or symptoms
Sequela
✓ -:- Subsequent pathologic condition resu lting from an acute illness.
EX: placing a cast on someone then removing it and results in joint stiffness
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Midterm Pathophysiology WCU Latest
Questions And Answers Rated 100%
Correct
Etiology
✓ -:- cause & reason behind the disease
Idiopathic
✓ -:- cause is unknown
Iatrogenic
✓ -:- medically induced
-cause results from unintended or unwanted medical treatment
-results from an infection while in hospital
-can be caused by medication
Risk factor
✓ -:- A factor that when present increases the likelihood of disease
Pathogenesis
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✓ -:- Development or evolution of disease from initial stimulus to ultimate
expression of manifesting of disease
Symptoms
✓ -:- subjective feeling of abnormality in the body
Signs
✓ -:- Objective or observed manifestation of disease
Syndrome
✓ -:- a set of signs and symptoms not yet determined to delineate a disease
and occur together
Latent period
✓ -:- time between exposure of tissue to injurious agent and FIRST
appearance of signs/or symptoms
Prodomal period
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✓ -:- time during which first signs and/or symptoms appear or onset of
disease occurs
Latent period (2)
✓ -:- Also refers to a period during an ill ness when signs/symptoms
temporarily become mild or silent
Subclinical stage
✓ -:- patient functions normally; disease processes are well established.
Acute clinical course
✓ -:- short-lived; may have severe manifestation
Chronic clinical course
✓ -:- may last months to years, sometimes following an acute course
Illness and disease do not?
✓ -:- Always coexist. Illness is the symptomatic and debilitating stage of a
disease.
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-Lytic
✓ -:- break down of the clot.
Syphilis
✓ -:- Can occur between latent & prodromal period and between
prodromal and latent period.
Remission
✓ -:- decrease in severity, signs, or symptoms; may indicate disease is
cured.
Exacerbation
✓ -:- increase in severity,signs, or symptoms
Sequela
✓ -:- Subsequent pathologic condition resu lting from an acute illness.
EX: placing a cast on someone then removing it and results in joint stiffness
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