Week 1 Vocabulary words
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msayers808 on February 11, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 volume 1 | Tabular list of diseases - numeric listing - diagnosis |
| volume 2 | alphabetical listing of diseases for diagnosis |
| volume 3 | alphabetical & tabular procedures (hospital) |
| secondary site | where malignant tumor has spread |
| unspecified behavior | neoplasm behavior not stated - uncertain |
| therapeutic | treatment |
| prophylaxis | preventive |
| primary dx | out patient - the reason why I go to the doctor |
| mortality | death |
| morbidity | sickness |
| manifestation | sign of disease |
| neoplasm | tumor, new growth |
| benign | not canerous, not reoccured, not progressive |
| malignant | cancerous, getting worse |
| metastasis | cancer spread |
| in situ | malignant cancer but not spread (confined to original spot) |
| cancinoma in situ | cancer in the orginal site |
| E codes | causes a person to be sick |
| V codes | patient not ill - flu shot |
| accute | sussen onset |
| chronic | over a long period of time or duration |
| etiology | study of diseases |
| morphology | study of neoplasms |
| eponyms | name of person disease named after |
| principal dx | in patient |
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