HSS 3305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Positive Mental Attitude, Gross Examination, Medical Laboratory
31 Jan 2019
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Modern medicine: advances to relieve suffering and human welfare but doesn"t guarantee good health. Symptoms: subjective manifestations such as pain or weakness: often are the result of body"s reaction to injury (trauma, infection by pathogen, etc. ) Lesions: well-defined, structural abnormalities or pathologic changes in organs and tissues as a result of disease; present in various organs and tissues. Signs: physical findings or objective manifestations such as swelling or redness. Organic disease: associated with structural changes, gross examination and histologic examination; i. e cancer, inflammation, etc. Functional disease: no morphological abnormalities but body fns are profoundly disturbed: require examination at the cell level; i. e diabetes hypertension, depression, etc. Idiopathic and iatrogenic disease idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and medical intervention: heart swells and becomes inefficient at pumping blood. Principles of diagnosis: diagnosis: determination of nature and cause of illness, use clinical history, physical examination, differential diagnosis, prognosis: opinion about the probable eventual outcome of disease; the outlook for recovery.
