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The term 'disease' refers to any abnormal condition of an organism that impairs function. This causes discomfort, dysfunction, distress, or death to the person afflicted or those in contact with the person.
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∙ 10y agoDisease is "not having ease" or having a dysfunctional condition that prevents a person to feel easy, or comfortable. In Western medicine there are specific signs and symptoms that are used to diagnose a patient to determine if they fit into one of the known categories of pathology called diseases.
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What word means disease of the arteries?
Well in Medical Terminology, the word for disease is -pathy and arteries is arteri/o so a disease of the arteries is arteriopaty
What word means having or caused by disease?
Pathologic
What is the word that means impure and likely to cause a disease?
Contaminated.
What does it mean to be pathogenic organism?
The word pathogen means to be disease causing.
What word means a Sudden recurrence or intensification of a disease?
paroxysm
What word means any disease of the lymph gland?
adenopathy
A word that starts with a v that means disease-causing?
virulent
What doee the word immune means?
To protect from disease - as by innoculation
What is the word means an extreme intuition about all things electrical and mechanical?
it means engineering is a disease
What is a Organism?
The word can be broken down into parts: path- means disease and -gen means to produce/make while -ic means a process. So the word means a disease making organism. For example the measles virus, chickenpox virus or cold virus.
What is a organic organism?
The word can be broken down into parts: path- means disease and -gen means to produce/make while -ic means a process. So the word means a disease making organism. For example the measles virus, chickenpox virus or cold virus.
What is a word that means local and begins with the letter E?
Endemic is a word that means local and starts with 'E." It refers to patterns of disease occurrence.
