Exam 1 Flashcards
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disease
disrupts homeostasis in human body
diagnosis
naming or classifying a disease
idiopathic
an unknown cause for a disease
lesion
structural change
structural disease
a disease that changes the structure
- lesions occurring in the body
- physiological, external/internal mechanism, genetic, or developmental
functional disease
a disease that changes the function in the body
-physiological cause
etiology
cause of disease
symptoms
subjective side effect of a disease
sign
measurable indicator of disease
iatrogenic disease
disease caused by a treatment or medical examination
nosocomial disease
disease acquired in a hospital
prognosis
predicted outcome of a disease
palliative
treatment that is focused on managing symptoms
manifestation
how a disease is physically expressed
exogenous
a factor outside of the body that causes disease
EX: COVID and flu
endogenous
a factor inside of the body that causes disease
EX: heart disease and cancer
what are the predisposing factors
- ) genetics
- ) age
- ) gender
- ) environment
- ) lifestyle
what is the 1st leading cause of death
heart disease
what is the 2nd leading cause of death
cancer
ten categories of human disease
- ) vascular
- ) neoplastic (cancer)
- ) infectious (inflammatory)
- ) congenital
- ) degenerative
- ) allergic (autoimmune)
- ) traumatic
- ) idiopathic
- ) endocrine
- ) metabolic
how is a diagnosis made?
- lab and diagnostic tests
- signs/symptoms
- predisposing factors
- family history
obstacles to patient care
- ) time lag: knowledge of disease and knowledge of treatment don’t always line up
- ) access to care (nature of disease/doctors understanding)
- ) patient compliance
- ) bias
- ) facility
steps of patient care
- ) lab and diagnostic tests
- ) interpret the tests
- ) diagnose and treat if applicable
- ) follow up to make sure no complications
what is the importance of a diagnosis
- ) improves treatment
- ) can predict outcome for patient
- ) stops transmission of disease