Signs and Symptoms

Write down the definition for health

• A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the abcense of diasease and infirmity

• Alteration of the normal functioning of an organism or any of its parts due to an internal or external cause.

• Is the patient experience of ill health, sometimes when no disease can be found

Write down the definition for disease

• Disorder of structure or function

• It is a condition that needs to be cured, but most of the times it has no cure, only can be managed

• Is the patient's experience of ill health, sometimes when no disease can be found

Write down the definition for Sickness

• It usually has a known cuase and distinctive group of symptoms

• Disorder of structure or function

• Quality or state of being sick or diseased

Write down the definition for Medical diagnosis - Escribe la definición de diagnóstico médico

• Orderly, systematic procedure to know, to clearly establish a circumstance, based on observations and data.

• Is the process of determining wich disease or condition explains a person's symptoms and signs

• state of complete physical, mental  and social well-being

Write down the definition for illness

• is the patient's experience of ill health sometimes when no disease can be found.

• Is the quality or state of being sick or diseased

• Is a branch of medicine dealing with the signs and symptoms of a disease

Write down the definition for Symptomatology (semiology)

• Is the clinical picture of all the patient's symptoms and signs

• When a symptom has a physical manifestation that can be detected by others

• is a branch of medicine dealing with the signs and symptoms of a disease.

• Set of symptoms and signs associated with a characteristic of any one particular disease

Is an objective evidence of a disease or the effect of a health problem

Es una prueba objetiva de una enfermedad o del efecto de un problema de salud

• Sign

• Symptom

• Syndrome

• Symptomatology

Is the physical manifestation of a disease that may be observed by any observer

• Illness

• Symptom

• Sign

• Disease

Signs are measurable by monitoring pulse rate, temperature,

Laboratory test, ECG (electrocardiogram), X-ray,  CT scan (computer tomography ) MRI (Magnetic resonance imaging) - Se puede medir la frecuencia del pulso y la temperatura, Pruebas de laboratorio, ECG (electrocardiograma), radiografías, TC (tomografía computarizada ) RM (resonancia magnética)

• True

• False

Write down the definition for SYMPTOM

• See, Touch, palpate, temperature, texture

• Is a subjective evidence of a desease

• Any desviation from health that can olny be perceived or felt by the patient