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| The Scientific study of disease |
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| Objective abnormalities that can be seen and measured by someone other than the patient |
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| Subjective abnormalities felt only by the patient |
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| Signs and symptoms appear suddenly, persist for a short time, then disappear |
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| Disease that develops slowly and lasts for a long time (sometimes for life) |
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| Study of all the factors involved in causing a disease (theory of a disease's cause) |
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| Diseases with undetermined causes |
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| Diseses that are transmitted from one person to another |
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| The latent stage of a disease (you are infected but showing no signs or symptoms) |
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| Epidemics that affect large geographic regions, possibly spreading around the world |
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| A disease that is native to a local region |
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| When a disease spreads to many people in a region |
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| Physical, mental and social well being, not merely the absence of disease. |
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| An abnormality in body function that threatens health |
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| A collection of different signs and symptoms, usually with a common cause |
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| actual patter of disease's development |
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| Study of the occurrence, distribution and transmission of diseases in humans |
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| altered or mutated genes can cause internal disfunction. Either by not functioning correctly or resulting in an absence of function |
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| microscopic or larger parasites enter the body and cause a loss of function for the host |
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| abnormal tissue growth (neoplasms = new matter) can cause physiological disturbances |
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| Physical and chemical agents |
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| toxic or destructive chemicals, extreme cold or heat, mechanical injury, and radiation can affect normal homeostasis |
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| insufficient or imbalanced intake of nutrients |
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| our immune system attacks the body by mistake or as an over reaction |
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| The imflammation response occurs at inappropriate times, or is abnormally prolonged or severe normal tissues can be damaged |
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| Tissues sometimes break down or break apart, usually associated with aging but can happen anytime |
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| Six Risk Factors of disease |
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| Genetic, Age, Lifestyle, Stress, Environmental Factors, and Preexisting conditions |
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| The leading cause of skin cancer is_______ |
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| Mictoscopic, parasitic entity made up of a nucleic acid bound by a protein coat and sometimes a lipoprotien envelope. They inject their DNA into the host cells and begin to replicate |
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| A primitive single celled organism without membranous organelles |
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| Pink eye - a highly contagious staphylococcal infection |
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| Organism similar to plants but lack of chlorophyll and capable of producing infections Athelets foot |
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| Single celled organisms with nuclei and other membranous organelles that can infect humans ex. amoeba, flagellate, ciliate, sporozoa |
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| Metazoa/pathogenic animals |
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| large multicellular organisms ex. nematode, platyhelminth, arthropods (mite tick). |
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| An organism that spreads disease to another organism |
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| 4 Mechanisms of Transmission |
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| person to person, environmental contact, opportunistic invasion, vector |
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| 4 different types of Aseptic control |
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| Sterilization, disinfection, antisepsis, isolation |
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| Non Aseptic froms of disease prevention |
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| vaccination, antibiotics, anti-virals |
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| The cells migrate via lymphatic or blood vessels |
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| Spreads to other regions of the body (cancer) |
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| Begnign Epithelial Tumors |
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| Papilloma, Adenoma, Nevus |
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| type of tumor forms a fingerlike projection Type of wart that can lead to cancer |
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| General term for benign tumors of glandular epthelium |
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| Nevi include a variety of small pigmented tumors of the skin (mole) |
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| Benign Connective Tissue Tumors |
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| Lipoma, Osteoma, Chondroma |
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| A Tumor arising from Adipose (fat) tissue |
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| This tumor involves bone tissue |
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| Tumors of cartilage tissue |
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| Malignant tumors that arise from epithelial tissues (melenoma adenocarcinoma) |
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| This type of cancer involves melanocytes, the pigment-producing cells of the skin |
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| General term for malignant tumors of glandular epithelium |
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| A tumor that arises from connective tissue (lymphoma, osteosarcoma, mylenoma, fibrosarcoma) |
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| Term used to describe a cancer of lymphatic tissue |
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| Refers to a malignant tumor of bone tissue |
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| Malignant bone marrow tissue |
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| General term used to decribe cancers involving fibrous connective tissues. |
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| Genetics, carcinogens, age, environment, viruses |
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| SELF EXAMINATION, raiography, tomography, MRI, ulta sonography, blood test, biopsy |
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| Use of Radiation to create images of inside of body |
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| X-Ray producing image of a specific layer of tissue |
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| Magnetic resonance imaging |
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| Removal of a piece of tissue for examination |
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