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Pathophysiology
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Study
of changes in physiology that occur as a
result of disease or disease
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Aetiology
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Cause
of disease – biological, chemical, nutritional, physical, genetic
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Pathogenesis
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Physiological
stages in the development of disease
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Signs
& symptoms
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Signs (can be seen by nurse, e.g. BP, rash): symptoms
are subjective (advised by the pt. headache, pain)
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Syndrome
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Collections
of signs and symptoms that occur together
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Epidemiology
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Study
of disease in a population
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Incidence & Prevalence
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Prevalence measures how much of some disease or
condition there is in a population at a
particular point in time. Incidence measures the rate of
occurrences of new cases of a disease or condition
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Risk factors
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Factor that can affect one’s health – such as
biomedical, environmental, genetic, behavioural,& demographic.
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Idiopathic
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causes of the disease are unknown and diseases appears to rise spontaneously
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Iatrogenic
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Causes
of disease induced inadvertently by the activity of practitioner.
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Nosocomial
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Cause of disease that arises specifically because of
hospital or clinical care environment.
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Local vs.
systemic signs
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A Local effect refers to an adverse
health effect that takes place at the point or area of contact. Systemic effect
refers to an adverse health effect that takes place at a location distant from
the body's initial point of contact and presupposes absorption has taken place.
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Acute
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Sudden
onset but short term
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Chronic-
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More
slowly developing and longer lasting disease often relapsing/remitting
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Preclinical/Prodromal
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Disease
present but has not yet developed specific symptoms
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