Mechanisms of Disease

2. Term used to describe a patient's pain when it comes and goes, usually has a brief duration, and often is not significant.
4. A new or abnormal growth. Another name for a tumor.
6. Enlargement of an organ.
7. Term used to describe a patient not exhibiting any signs or symptoms.
9. Normal, steady state of the body.
10. The aftermath of disease (the residual condition after a disease process).
11. Disturbance of the normal steady state of the body.
13. Term used to describe the spread of a malignant tumor.
15. Term used to describe a condition that a person gets after they are born.
16. Objective evidence of a disease observed by physical exam (fever, abnormal pulse, increased blood pressure).
20. Causes infections that can be treated with antibiotics (eg, Streptococcus).
21. When signs and symptoms recur in all severity in a chronic illness.
23. Cause of disease.
24. Type of disease that will end in death.
25. Type of disease characterized by a combination of multiple signs and symptoms (eg, Downs).
26. A disease which may begin insidiously and is long-lived.

1. Type of tumor that does not remain encapsulated and has the capability of spreading to distant sites.
3. Term used when the cause of a disease is unknown.
5. Severe systemic reaction or shock.
8. A disease that has a sudden onset and short-term course of illness.
12. Trained listening. A diagnostic technique of listening for sounds within the body, particularly the lungs, heart, or abdominal viscera.
14. Type of disease that a person is born with.
17. Abnormal structure or function. May be the result of a wound, injury, or pathologic condition.
18. Indication of disease perceived by the patient (pain, dizziness, itching).
19. Term used to describe malignant tumors.
22. Type of tumor that remains encapsulated and does not spread.