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Medical Terminology
General Assessment Terms
Question | Answer |
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Impression | assesment |
Diagnosis | what the health care professional thinks the patient has |
Differential diagnosis | a list of conditions the patient may have based on symptoms and results of the exam |
Benign | safe |
malignant | dangerous; a problem |
Degeneration | to be getting worse |
Etiology | the cause |
idiopathic | no known specific cause; it just happens |
Remission | to get better or improve |
Recurrent | to have again |
Morbidity | the risk of being sick |
Mortality | the risk for dying |
Prognosis | the chances for things getting better or worse |
Localized | stays in a certain part of the body |
systemic/generalized | all over the body (or most of it) |
Occult | hidden |
Pathogen | the organism that causes the problem |
Lesion | diseased tissue |
Sequelae | a problem resulting from a disease or injury |
Pending | waiting for |