Diagnosis
Diagnosis is the process of identifying the nature and cause of a disease or injury.
Identifying the problem
Ankylosis is the condition of crooked stiff bones. Ankyl/o - meaning crooked, fusion, stiffness -osis Condition Definition (n) stiffening or rigidity or a joint either as a result of a disease process or from surgery.
Definition: suffix (-osis) - affected with, condition, abnormal process.Disease. For example, nephrosis means kidney disease.denotes a process or conditionIt just means condition of. So fibrosis is a condition of being fibrotic etc.
Xeno=stranger Diagnosis= to identify cause or nature. So, xenodiagnosis the process of identifying a disease using a strange organism (usually a clean, sterile vector). The vector bites the patient, and if the patient has the suspected disease, the parasite (as it almost invariably is) grows in the body of the vector. The doctor then examines this growth to confirm the diagnosis.
Pathy (path = disease + y = process) is used to indicate a disease condition. Andropathy means disease processes particular to men. Pathology meand the process of studying diseases. Sometimes, instead of using "disease" the term will have it a medical condition. In that case you will see "-iasis" or "-osis added as a suffix as in hyperhydrosis (hyper = a lot + hydr = water + osis = condition of).
Pathogenesis is the medical term meaning process that initiates a disease.
Diagnosis is the process of identifying the nature and cause of a disease or injury.
Diagnosed means: The act or process of identifying or determining the nature and cause of a disease or injury through evaluation of patient history, examination, and review of laboratory data. Determining the disease causing the symptoms presented. All diseases can be diagnosed by medical examination at some point.
The medical term is spina bifida.
In the medical world, a syndrome is a specific presentation of a set of signs and symptoms, seemingly unrelated, that constitutes a disease process other than a "known" disease. Syndrome: noun: definition: A set of signs and symptoms that appear together and characterize a disease or medical condition. For more information on "syndrome" please refer to the "Related Links" below.
A nephrectomy is an operation that removes a kidney. However there are two variations, either simple nephrectomy or radical nephrectomy depending on the etiology (origin of the disease process or condition.
The medical terminology combining form -sis means "condition" or "state of being." It is often used in medical terms to denote a specific pathological or physiological condition.
Fatigue may be the result of one or more environmental causes such as inadequate rest, improper diet, work and home stressors, or poor physical conditioning, or one symptom of a chronic medical condition or disease process in the body.
Diagnosing involves identifying a specific medical condition based on the symptoms and signs exhibited by a patient. It requires a combination of medical history-taking, physical examination, and possibly further testing such as lab work or imaging. The goal is to accurately determine the underlying cause of the patient's symptoms in order to recommend appropriate treatment.
Pathophysiology is a convergence of pathology with physiology. Pathology is the medical discipline that describes conditions typically observed during of a disease state, whereas physiology is the biological discipline that describes processes or mechanisms operating within an organism. Pathology describes the abnormal or undesired condition, whereupon pathophysiology seeks to explain the physiological processes or mechanisms whereby such condition develops and progresses.
A health problem is a condition that represents a disease process or less than optimal health. It is any condition that effects a person's life in some way.