502 Term1 Health and Human Disease

Pathophysiology

the underlying changes in the body which lead to disease

Sign

a measurable change in the body that can be observed by someone other than the patient (like fever)

Symptom

a change that the patient reports but cannot be noted by an observer (like pain)

Functional Disease

No morphological abnormalities yet body functions are profoundly disturbed

Organic Disease

Associated with structural changes

Clinical Disease

an illness with experienced symptoms and clinical findings confirming the presence of disease

Etiology

the causative factors involved in a disease or change in the body

Health

state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity

Subclinical Disease

an illness below clinical detection, with with very few (if any) symptoms and no clinical finding

Acute Disease

conditions that generally develop suddenly and are accompanied by distinct symptoms that required urgent or short-term care, resolved once treated

Idiopathic

having an unknown cause

Iatrogenic

resulting from healthcare or treatment

Incidence

measure of the number of new cases of a characteristic in a specified time period

Chronic Disease

conditions that are slower to develop, may progress overtime, and are generally not curable, but may be controllable

Homeostasis

the balance between systems which a body operates normally under and tends towards

Prognosis

prediction of the outcome/course of a disease or condition

Prevalence

proportion of a population who have a specific characteristic in a given time period, regardless of when they first developed the characteristic

Subacute Disease

a condition in which symptoms are less pronounced but more prolonged than in an acute disease, intermediate between acute and chronic

Pathogenesis

how a disease develops -Description of how etiologic factors alter physiologic function and lead to clinical manifestation that are observed in a particular disorder/disease

Diagnosis

the process of identifying a disease, condition, or injury from its signs and symptoms

Epidemiology

the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states and events in specified populations, as well as the application of this study to the control of health problems

Morbidity

the state of being symptomatic or unhealthy for a disease or condition

Natural History

the usual course of a disease which you would expect to see if it remained untreated

Syndrome

a set of symptoms that appear in a certain disease state or pathology

Disease

objective abnormalities of the structure and function of body organs and systems, the named pathological entities that make up the medical model of ill-health

Mortality

related to the number of deaths caused by the health event in consideration

Illness

the subjective response of a patient to being unwell, or how patients perceive the origin and significance of the event, how it affects their behavior, and the steps taken to remedy the situation