A disease is any condition that causes problems with the body’s normal functions. Because of this, diseases are linked to the dysfunction of the body’s regulation.
With this quiz, you will learn different terms, concepts, and types of diseases, based on their origin and transmission.
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A functional abnormality or disturbance.
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Disorder
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Nutritional
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Incurable
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Genetic
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Disorders are functional abnormalities or disturbances. There are several types of medical disorders, including mental disorders, physical disorders, genetic disorders, emotional disorders, and functional disorders.
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Describes a state of disease, disability, or poor health for whatever reason.
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Morbidity
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Incurable
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Disorder
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Infectious
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Morbidity refers to a condition of poor health, disability, or disease. This term refers to the presence of any form of disease, or to the degree to which the disease affects a patient. The level of morbidity of severely ill patients is often measured with ICU scoring systems.
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A condition that is identifiable as or believed to be a subclinical prelude to a disease.
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Predisease
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Idiopathic
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Primary
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Chronic
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A predisease is the subclinical, prodromal stage of a disease. Examples include prediabetes and prehypertension.
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A disease where the affected tissues or organs change for the worse over time.
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Degenerative
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Airborne
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Nutritional
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Acute
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In degenerative diseases, tissues or organs lose their function or structure over time. Among the most common are osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's disease.
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Those diseases directly caused by environmental factors.
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Environmental
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Congenital
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Iatrogenic
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Incurable
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A disease that is directly linked to environmental factors is called an environmental disease (as opposed to one that is disease-causing due to genetics or infection). Lifestyle diseases and exposure to toxic or irritating substances are examples.
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Also known as transmissible diseases or communicable diseases.
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Infectious
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Predisease
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Degenerative
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Idiopathic
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The term infectious diseases, also known as transmittable diseases and communicable diseases, refers to medical conditions (i.e., characteristic symptoms of disease) that are caused by infection, proliferation, or presence of pathogenic biological agents.
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Are diseases, both benign and malignant, that cause tumor growth.
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Neoplastic
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Genetic
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Environmental
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Terminal
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Neoplastic diseases include benign and malignant conditions that lead to tumor growth. The exact causes of tumors are still under research. Generally, cancerous tumor growth is triggered by DNA mutations within your cells.
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Diseases and disorders associated with nutrients that cause illness in humans.
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Nutritional
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Predisease
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Genetic
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Chronic
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The term nutritional diseases refers to all diseases and disorders associated with nutrients that cause illness in humans. These include both deficiencies and excesses in the diet.
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The transmission of diseases through the air caused by pathogens.
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Airborne
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Disorder
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Primary
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Genetic
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The term airborne disease refers to diseases spread through the air by pathogens. There are different types of pathogens, including viruses, bacteria, and fungi, which can be spread by breathing, talking, coughing, sneezing, or any other activity that generates aerosol particles or droplets.
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A disease caused by the consumption of food contaminated with bacteria, toxins, viruses, prions, or parasites.
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Foodborne
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Predisease
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Infectious
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Nutritional
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A foodborne illness or food poisoning is an illness caused by consuming food that is contaminated with pathogenic bacteria, toxins, viruses, prions, or parasites.
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