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| the study of the normal vital processs f a living organism. |
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| study of the normal structure of a living organism. |
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| the study of these functional changes |
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| the functional changes associated with or resulting from disease or injury |
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| state of equilibrium (balance) within the body with respect to various funtions and to chemical compostions of fliuds and electrolytes. |
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| a process in which any particular change in homeostasis is counteracted with another opposing change resulting in minimal to no evidence of the orignal change |
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| a stressoto the body or disruption in the body's homeostasis |
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| the cause of a disease or disorder |
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| the study of tracking patterns of disease occurencences and transmission among any given population and/or demographic/ geographic areas. |
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| the number of new cases occuring within a specific time frame |
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| the number of new cases occuring within a specific time frame. New+old |
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| risk factor (predisposing factors) |
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a characteristic associated with an increase probability that a disease will occur.
Modifiable-lifestyle
Non-modifiable-gender, age. race, heredity, family history and genetics. |
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| the act of naming ot the identification of a disease |
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| the predicted outcome of a disease based on a person's present condition and usual course of the disease |
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| a disease state. i.e. person with a diagnosi of diabetes. This is used to give medical professionals an idea of how many people are ill with a particular disease or group of diseases with in a population |
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| the state of having two or more coexisting medical conditions. Often people have diabetes and hypertension |
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| the death rate resulting from a particular disease |
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any abnormal condition that follows and is a result of a disease
Rheumatic--bad heart valve
Small pox--scars
Polio--parlysis
heart attack--heart failure |
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| the demonstration of the presence of a sign or symptom of a disease that can be identied by a trained observer. |
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| manifestation of a disease that can be identified by a trained observer |
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| a sign of disease percieved by someone other than the person affected |
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| local manifestation of inflammation |
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| subjective manifestaion that can only be reported by the person experiencing them and can not be oberved by the clinician. i.e. pain, nausea, fatigue |
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| suffix meaning inflammation |
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| a group of signs and symptoms that occur together and associated with a particular disease process |
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