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Hyper--
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In excess of
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Hypo--
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Not enough of
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--itis
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Inflammation
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--osis
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Abnormal condition
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--opathy
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Diseased
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Idiopathic
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Unknown cause
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Iatrogenic
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Diseased introduced through a doctor or through medicine/therapy/etc. prescribed by so
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Nosocomial
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Disease introduced through the health care system
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Disease
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Set of symptoms lead back to a single cause
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Syndrome
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Multiple possible things going wrong, any of which that could cause a set of signs and symptoms
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Normalcy
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Refers to the range of accepted values for the average person
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Etiology
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Causes or reason for a disease (could be from virus/bacteria, occupation, age, sex, nutritional status, or genetics)
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Classifications of diseases
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Inherited, congenital, toxic, infectious, traumatic, degenerative, neoplastic, metabolic (*remember that classifications often overlap)
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Inherited disease
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Parent(s) passed it down genetically
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Congenital disease
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Person born with it, but not necessarily passed down from parents (something happened in utero)
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