patho intro with terminologies

Pathology

The study of diseases that can cause

abnormalities in the structure

Disease

-Pattern of the body’s response to some

form of injury that causes variation of

normal conditions

- Disturbance in the function or structure of

the human body

Inflammatory

Degenerative

Congenital and Hereditary

Metabolic process

Traumatic

Neoplastic

Pathologic process can be defined as following:

Etiology

- study of the cause of a disease:

Viruses

Bacteria

Trauma

Heat

Chemical agents

Poor nutrition

Iatrogenic –

diseases caused by physicians or their

treatment

Iatrogenic

– diseases caused by physicians or their

treatment

pathogenesis

sequence or events producing cellular changes

symptoms

-individuals perception of the disease

-subjective

-only individual can identify symptoms

Nosocomial

– infections at the acute care facility

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community acquired

-health care environment to prevent hospital acquired

-infections that develop

outside the healthcare facility

Idiopathic

– underlying cause is unknown

-no causative factor can be identified

Chronic

- - diseases may manifest more slowly and

last for a very long time onset and last for a short period e.g.

Pneumonia

Chronic

- diseases may manifest more slowly and

last for a very long time

Diagnosis

- is the identification of a disease an individual is believed to have

Prognosis

- predicted course and outcome of the disease

Morphology

The structure of cells or tissue

Epidemiology

is the investigation of disease in large groups