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Patient
a tatient is any person who receives medical attention, care or treatment.
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Diagnosis
The identification by a medical doctor of a condition, diseas, disorder or injury in a patient through physical examination, medical test.
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Inpatient
A person admitted to the hospital and stays overnight for an indeterminate time. Usually several days, weeks or more. A hospital is also called a facility.
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Admission
Registration of a patient for services in a hospital or health facility, considered an inpatient.
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Outpatient
A person who is not hospitalized overnight but who visits a hospital, clinic, or associated facility for diagnosis or treatment.
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Procedure
A service, treatment or srgery that is provided to a patient.
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Disease
A condition or illness
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Condition
Is a state of health.
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Manifistation
Signs or symptoms of an illness.
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Symptom
Any change in the body condition or its functions that is noticed by the patient.
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Asystomatic
Not showing any of the typical symptoms of a diseas or condition.
Example: Som conditions such as aneurysms do not exhibit any symptoms and therefore asystomatic.
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Sign
Any abnormal indication or evidence of the presence of a diseas or disorder. Especially as observed and interpreted by the physician rather than by the patient.
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Cause
Where it originiated which produces a condition or produces any effect. To be the reason for the condition.
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Complication
The occurance of two or more diseases in the same patient at the same time.
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Systemic / Systematic
Affecting the entire body as a whole.
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Severity of Illness
Refers to the levels of loss of function and mortality (death) that may be experianced by patients with a particular diseas.
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Morbidity
Condition of being diseased (morbid)
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Etiology
Cause of a disease.
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After Care
An encounter for something planned in advance.
Example: Cast removal
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Adverse Effect Reaction
Any harmful reaction: to a drug or chemical that occurs with proper dosage. Any undesirable or unwanted consequences of a preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic procedure or regimen.
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Eponyms
Medical procedures or conditions named after a person or a place.
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Anomaly
Abnormality, state of being different from standard or norm.
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