Medical Terms To Describe Disease Conditions

Question 1

Symptom

Answer 1

Something a person feels but cannot be tested (i.e stomach ache, headache)

Question 2

Sign

Answer 2

Something that can be measured/documented by another person or test

Question 3

Syndrome

Answer 3

Set of signs and symptoms that occur together as part of a specific disease process

Question 4

Disease

Answer 4

When one or more body parts are not functioning properly

Question 5

Diagnosis

Answer 5

Identification of disease

Question 6

Differential diagnosis

Answer 6

A list of different diseases that might be causing the signs and symptoms the patient has

Question 7

Acute disease

Answer 7

A condition with rapid onset, severe course, and relatively short duration

Question 8

Chronic

Answer 8

A condition of long duration, usually not curable but may be manageable

Question 9

Prognosis

Answer 9

A prediction of the possible course and outcome of a disorder

Question 10

Remission

Answer 10

Temporary, partial, or complete disappearance of symptoms without receiving a cure

Question 11

Eponym

Answer 11

Disease, structure, operation, named for the person who discovered/described it (can go by more then one name if the root cause of disease is found ie down syndrome and trisomy 21)

Question 12

Acronym

Answer 12

A word formed from the initial letter of the major parts of the term (AIDS)

Question 13

Ology

Answer 13

The study of

Question 14

Ologist

Answer 14

A specialist

Question 15

Path/o

Answer 15

Disease

Question 16

Pathology

Answer 16

Study of disease, used to describe disease or anatomic and physiological changes second to the disease