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Idiopathic - ANSWER unknown cause
Eitology - ANSWER cause of disease
Iatrogenic - ANSWER result of an unintended or unwanted medical treatment
Pathogenesis - ANSWER development of disease from initial stimulation
Symptoms are - ANSWER subjective characteristics of a disease that only the
patient can feel
Incubation period/ Latent - ANSWER interval between initial infection and first
signs and symptoms
Prodomal phase - ANSWER time of mild signs or symptoms indicating onset of
disease
Manifest Phase - ANSWER the disease reaches its full intensity, and signs and
symptoms attain their greatest severity
Convalescence - ANSWER gradual recovery after an illness
Signs - ANSWER Observed and objective manifestations
Symptoms - ANSWER Subjective feelings from patient
Syndrome - ANSWER S/S that has not been identified
Exacerbation - ANSWER a sudden increase in severity of disease or signs or
symptoms
Remission - ANSWER improvement or absence of signs of disease
Subclinical - ANSWER Stage of a disease or disorder not severe enough to
produce symptoms that can be detected or diagnosed.
Sequela - ANSWER subsequent pathologic condition resulting from an acute
illness
Endemic disease - ANSWER local region or native disease
, Epidemic disease - ANSWER disease acquired by many hosts in a given area in a
short time
Pandemic disease - ANSWER worldwide epidemic
Secondary prevention - ANSWER Efforts to limit the effects of an injury or illness
that you cannot completely prevent. Colonoscopies, treating for obesity, high BP
but being treated for it,
Primary prevention - ANSWER Efforts to prevent an injury or illness from ever
occurring. Vaccinations
Tertiary prevention - ANSWER actions taken to contain damage once a disease or
disability has progressed beyond its early stages.
Therapies
Homeostasis - ANSWER A tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal
state; the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry, such as blood glucose,
around a particular level
Allostasis - ANSWER process by which the body achieves stability through
physiological change
GAS stages of stress - ANSWER -alarm
-resistance
-exhaustion
Alarm stage of GAS - ANSWER organism recognizes stress, begins to respond.
Fight or flight and sympathetic nervous system engages
Epinephrine and norepinephrine
Resistance stage of GAS - ANSWER second stage;
Body functions normalize while responding to the stressor. The body attempts to
cope with the stressor
Normalization/resolution of glucocorticoid secretion, fight or flight, and
secretions and epinephrine and norepinephrine.
Exhaustion stage of GAS - ANSWER third stage;
If the client reaches this stage, body functions are no longer able to maintain an
adaptive response to the stressor
Increased glucocorticoid secretions followed by dysregulation
ALLOSTATIC OVERLOAD
Epinephrine - ANSWER Enhances myocardialcontractility, increases heartrate,
and increases cardiacoutput
▪Causes bronchodilation