Diseases

• idi/o - particular to individual
• iatr/o - physician, treatment
• Infectious Disease - caused by living pathogenic organisms
• Idiopathic Disorder - illness with no known cause
• Iatrogenic Illness - caused by medical treatment or surgery
• Nosocomial Infection - infectious disease acquired in a hospital or clinical setting
• Comminutiy Acquired - infectious disease acquired in a community
• Congenital Disorder - abnormal disorder prsent at birth
• Development Disorder (Birth Defect) - Malformation present at birth
• Anomaly - Deviation from normal
• Atresia - Congenilal absence of normal body opening or failure of a tubular structure to be open
• eti - - cause
• gen -, gen/o, -gen - producing, forming
• epi - - above
• dem/i - population
• en - - within
• pan - - entire
• Pathogen - Disease producing microogranism, such as bacteria
• Transmission - Spread of disease
• Contamination - Pathogen possibly present
• Communicable Disease - (Contagious Disease) Condition transmitted from one person to another
• Bloodborne Transmission - Spread of disease through contact with blood or other body fluids
• AIrborne Transmission - Spread through contact with contaminated respiratory droplets spread by cough or sneeze
• Food-borne Transmission and Waterborne Transmission - Eating or drinking a food or drink not properly treated for pathogens
• Vector-borne Transmission - Spread of disease due to a bile of a vector (living organism that carries and transmits a disease-causing microbe from one host to another)
• Etiology - Study causes of disease
• Endemic - Ongoing presence of a disease within a population, group, or area
• Epidemic - Sudden, widespread outbreak of a disease within a population or group
• Pandemic - Outbreak of disease over large geographic area