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referred by the actual practice of

medicine in the diagnosis and treatment of disease

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Clinical Medicine

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is a body of information collected to
learn of past events that might relate to the patient’s
health or illness.

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Medical History

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Medical History includes:

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  • Presenting symptoms of chief complaint
  • History of present illness, if illness is present
  • Past history
  • Family history
  • Social history
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act of listening to the sounds produced by

internal organs

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Auscultation

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instrument for listening to sounds in the

chest and many other areas of the body

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Stethoscope

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act of looking into or looking at the patient, either directly or indirectly through various instruments.

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Inspection

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instrument for viewing the inside of the

eye

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Ophthalmoscope

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act of touching or feeling specific areas of the

patient’s body

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Palpation

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act of striking various parts of the body to
determine the quality of sounds produced, reflexes or
nerve reactions, or the existence of tenderness

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Percussion

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measured to complete the total evaluation of

the person’s state of health.

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Vital signs

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Vital signs measured are the:

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  • Temperature
  • Respiratory rate
  • Pulse rate
  • Blood pressure
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sharp; one condition that is brief and severe

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Acute

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involving systems; a systemic disease affects

the body as a whole

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Systemic

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able to walk

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Ambulatory

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a group of signs and symptoms that usually

occur together

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Syndrome

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irregularity, a deviation from normal

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Anomaly

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an indication of something that occurs with a

particular disease process

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Symptom

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wasting away of the body or of an organ or part

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Atrophy

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observable occurrence

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Sign

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good; a disease that is not malignant

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Benign

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a predicton of the course of a disease process

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Prognosis

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time-related; one condition that lasts a long time

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Chronic

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“next place”; a disease that spreads from one

place to the next

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Metastatic

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a sick bed or area where sick persons are confined

or go to for diagnosis and treatment of disease

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Clinic

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bad; a condition that becomes progressively | worse and may result in death
Malignant
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related to examination in a clinic, resulting in | diagnosis and treatment
Clinical
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identification of a disease
Diagnosis
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bol-
ball
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carcino(o)
cancer
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ede-
swelling
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febr-
fever
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fiss-
split
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fistula
small pipe
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hernia
protrusion
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infect
contaminate
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inflammation
burning
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lesion
harm
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lip
fat
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lith-
stone, calculus
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necro-
death
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obesity
fatness
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patho-
disease
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phthi-
decay
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polyp
many feet
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pur
pus
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pyo-
pus
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pyr-
fever
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scar
mark
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stear-, steat-
fat
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steno-
narrowing
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strict-
draw tight
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struct-
clogged
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tract-
draw, drag
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trauma
wound, injury
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tuber-
swelling
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tumor
swelling
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ulcer
sore
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ball or clot of blood in a | vessel
embolism
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cancerous tumor
carcinoma
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abnormal collection of fluid in the tissues of the body
edema
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feverish condition
febrile
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cleft, split, or groove that may or may not be normal
fissure
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abnormal passage between two internal organs
fistula
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protrusion of an organ or part of organ
hernia
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Contaminate with disease-producing germs
infect
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Condition in which there is a burning or destruction of | the cells of the body
inflammation
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Injury, wound, or area of disease
lesion
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tumor made of fat
lipoma
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incision made to remove a stone
lithotomy
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death of tissue
necrosis
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there is excessive fat around the body
obesity
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study of diseases
pathology
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wasting away of the body or part of the body
phthisis
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shortened form of the world polypus
polyp
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containing pus
purulent
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to discharge pus
suppurate
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cyst containing pus
pyocyst
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state of having fever
pyrexia
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mark left by a healed wound; may be internal or external
scar
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there is excessive fat in buttocks
steatopygia
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narrowing condition
stenosis
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a vessel is narrowed, walls of an organ are drawn together
constriction
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there is a clog in a normal passageway
obstruction
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parts of an organ are drawn together
contract
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condition in which there is injury to more than one part of the body
multiple trauma
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characterized by appearance of small swellings
tuberculosis
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growth of tissue from a disease rate
tumor
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sore that is open on the surface of the body or on a wall of an internal organ
ulcer
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term commonly used for treatment of disease
Therapy
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phase of medicine that deals with the treatment of disease.
Therapeutics
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Two general categories of treatment:
- Surgical | - Internal medicine
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involves art and practice of treating diseases, injuries, and deformities by operation or by application of devices internally or externally
Surgical
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deals with the treatment of diseases that are treated with drugs or other nonsurgical types of treatment; commonly referred to as medical therapy
Internal medicine
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chemical substance administered to a person | to treat a disease
Drug
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root word meaning drug
pharm/o
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goal is to cure a disease
Curative medicine
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efforts taken to prevent disease
Disease prevention
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goal in which a chronic disease is managed to allow the patient to live with the disease and to prevent some complications of the disease
Disease management
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an approach by health professionals in which maintaining or improving a person’s health is the goal of the action taken
Health promotion
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goal is aimed at covering the symptoms of a disease, rather than trying to cure the disease
Palliative medicine
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goal is to restore a person’s functional state to the highest level of independence possible.
Rehabilitation medicine
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goal is to restore one or more functions of the body
Restorative medicine
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taken to find out more about the patient, the disease, the environment, or any other factor that may affect the patient
Diagnostic
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goal is to help the patient and others learn what they need to do to participate in caring for their own health or illness
Education
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one in which a treatment is given to a patient
Therapeutic
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condition in which a natural body structure was not produced
Agenesis
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disease caused by bacteria
Bacterial
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disease in which the natural course leads to death
Cancer
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condition or defect that a child is born with
Congenital
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characterized by a breakdown in the structure of a part
Degenerative
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a disease occurring in a particular group of people
Endemic
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disease that is spread over a large number of people in an area
Epidemic
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condition in which a disease becomes increasingly severe
Exacerbation
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disease caused by fungus
Fungal
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condition caused by disease-producing worms
Helminthic
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disease that is a side effect of a prescribed treatment
Iatrogenic/ Introgenic
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a disease that is peculiar to one person; a | disease of unknown cause
Idiopathic
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disease that makes its way into a person; a disease that is spread from one person to another
Infectious
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disease in which new cells are formed; this type is referred to as cancer
Neoplastic
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disease that originates in a hospital or other | institution designed to care for sick people
Nosocomial
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treatment that is directed at the symptom of the disease, rather than curing the disease
Palliation
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disease that is spread all over the people; a widespread disease
Pandemic
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disease caused by a parasite
Parasitic
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presence in the blood of organisms or poisons from those organisms capable of producing a breakdown of body tissues
Sepsis
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wound either to the body or mind
Trauma
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disease caused by a virus
Viral
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caused by a virus capable of moving its own DNA backward into the DNA of a host cell and becoming part of that host cell. When the cell divides, it divides as if it were the virus
Retroviral

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