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PHCY 502_Class 1_Concepts Of Health & Human Disease Study Set Exam
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PHCY 502_Class 1_Concepts OfHealth & Human Disease Study
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Pathophysiology - Answer the underlying changes in the body which lead to disease
Sign - Answer a measurable change in the body that can be observed by someone other
than the patient (like fever)
Symptom - Answer a change that the patient reports but cannot be noted by an observer
(like pain)
Neoplasia - Answer new, uncontrolled cell growth not under physiologic control
Clinical Disease - Answer an illness with experienced symptoms and clinical findings
confirming the presence of disease
Etiology - Answer the causative factors involved in a disease or change in the body
Atrophy - Answer wasting or degeneration of a tissue, organ, or body
Necrosis - Answer death of living tissue, which can occur because of illness, infection,
injury, disease, or lack of blood flow
Subclinical Disease - Answer an illness below clinical detection, with with very few (if
any) symptoms and no clinical finding
Idiopathic - Answer having an unknown cause
Hypertrophy - Answer an increase in size of cells leading to an increase in size of an
organ or tissue
Ischemia - Answer inadequate blood supply to an organ or part of the body
Acute Disease - Answer conditions that generally develop suddenly and are
accompanied by distinct symptoms that required urgent or short-term care, resolving
once treated
Iatrogenic - Answer resulting from healthcare or treatment
Hyperplasia - Answer an increase in the number of cells
Incidence - Answer measure of the number of new cases of a characteristic in a
specified time period
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