PATH 3610 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Macrophage, Inflammation, Endothelium
20 Nov 2018
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Prevalence: number of occurrences of the disease in a year and is the total. Incidence: number of new cases of a disease each year number affected. Morbidity: percentage of the given population that will become affected. Case fatality rate: proportion of individuals who contract a disease that die of that disease in a set period of time, usually one year. Mortality: ratio of the number of deaths from a given disease to the total population. Actual risk: statistical measure of the chance of developing or dying from a disease, different to our perceived risk. Association: term to describe link, association or link does not necessarily mean cause. Hypochondrium: someone that has a ripping feeling inside cartilage: sinking feeling (ex. heart attack: hypo: reduced or below; condrium: cartilage. A reduced in amount of oxygen in tissue is called hypoxia: physical agents, chemical agents and drugs, infectious agents, immunological reactions such as anaphylaxis, genetic derangements, nutritional imbalances, aging (intrinsic cellular senescence)
