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Patho Vocab 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acute | sudden and severe in onset (targets one system) |
| asystole | cessation of electrical and mechanical activity of the heart |
| chronic | lasting a long time |
| complication | medical problem that occurs during a disease, or AFTER a procedure or treatment (hit or miss) |
| contraindicated | not recommended under certain circumstances |
| disseminated | widely dispersed |
| epidemiology | branch of medicine that is concerned with the incidence, distribution, and control of disease that affect a large number of people (how its spread) |
| etiology | study of the cause of disease |
| exacerbation | increase in the severity of a disease or symptoms |
| febrile | feverish |
| fulminant | sudden and severe in onset (targets multiple systems) |
| latrogenic | illness produced by treatment |
| idopathic | illness from unknown origin |
| incidence | number or rate of NEW cases of a condition during a SPECIFIC time |
| infarct | area of dead tissue after NO blood supply |
| insidious | comes on slowly and does not appear to have symptoms at first |
| ischemia | lack of blood supply to an area |
| latent | existing in hidden or dormant form |
| necrotic | dead tissue caused by lack of blood flow (ischemia) |
| nosocomial | disease originating in a hospital |
| prevalence | proportion of population that have that condition (percentage) |
| prodromal | early symptoms that may indicate the onset of a condition or disease |
| prognosis | prediction of the course of a disease |
| remission | improvement or absence of signs of disease |
| sequelae | problem from a previous disease or injury (another actual disease) |
| sign | objective evidence of disease (ex. fever) |
| somnolent | sleepy, drowsy |
| subacute | between acute and chronic |
| symptom | subjective evidence of disease (ex. pain) |
| syndrome | a group of symptoms typical of a particular disease or condition; makes cases complex |