Illness or sickness often characterized by typical patient problems (symptoms) and physical findings (signs). Disruption sequence: The events that occur when a fetus that is developing normally is subjected to a destructive agent such as the rubella (German measles) virus.
The ongoing systematic collection and analysis of data and the provision of information which leads to action being taken to prevent and control a disease, usually one of an infectious nature.
Common Misspellings: diease surveillance, desease surveillance
A system of classifying and naming diseases. The contemporary categories and codes for diseases are outlined in the World Health Organization's "International Classification of Diseases." Within some medical fields, there are standard nomenclatures. For example, DSM-IV, the 4th edition of "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" is a comprehensive classification of officially recognized psychiatric disorders.
There was once no standard classification or nomenclature (system of names) for diseases. The recorded causes of death were often narratives of symptoms. The systematic classification of diseases dates back to the nineteenth century. Groundwork was done by early medical statisticians William Farr (1807-1883) and Jacques Bertillon (1851-1922). The French government invoked the first International Conference for the revision of the Bertillon or International Classification of Causes of Death in 1900.
Common Misspellings: diease nomenclature, desease nomenclature
The term "condition" has a number of biomedical meanings including the following:
1. An unhealthy state, such as in "this is a progressive condition."
2. A state of fitness, such as "getting into condition."
3. Something that is essential to the occurrence of something else; essentially a "precondition."
4. As a verb: to cause a change in something so that a response that was previously associated with a certain stimulus becomes associated with another stimulus; to condition a person, as in behavioral conditioning.
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