Principles Of Disease Flashcards
Chronic
Long duration; long course of disease
Acute
Having a short but relatively severe course; new, brief
Animal Health
Maintaining animal production in a manner to maximize prevention of disease
Disease
An alteration in the state of the body or of some of its organs, interrupting or disturbing the performance of the vital function and causing or threatening pain, weakness, debilitation, or death
Clinical
Disease is easily detected due to apparent symptoms (clinical signs)
Subclinical
Disease is difficult to detect due to lack of apparent symptoms; aberrations in normal functioning may be detectable with tests
Latent
Infectious organisais present but static/dormant, patient is asymptomatic, disease is typically undetectable
Patent
Active clinical infection which is shedding the causative organism
Symptoms
Any subjective evidences of disease or of a patient’s conditions, i.e. such evidence as perceived by the patient, a noticeable change in a patient’s condition indicative of some bodily or mental state
Subjective sensations of the patient
Clinical Sign
An indication of the existence of something; any objective evidence of a disease, I.e. such evidences as is perceptible to the examining physician as opposed to the subjective sensations (symptoms) of the patient
Etiology
The cause or origin of a disease
Risk factor
A clearly defined occurrence or characteristic that has been associated with the increased rate of disease; causality may or may not be implied
Pathogenesis
The development of morbid conditions or of disease; more specifically the cellular events and reactions and other pathologic mechanisms occurring in the development of disease
Pathogenic
Causing disease or morbid symptoms
Pathogenicity
Ability of an organism to cause clinical disease.
Will disease happen? Yes or no
