Diagnostic terms

1. Ambulatory : designating patient who is able to leave bed and walk
2. Autologous derived from same individual or organism
3. Carcinogen: substance that might produce cancer in living tissue
4. Congenital : condition present at birth, often inherited
5. Dystrophy: faulty nutrition
6. Endemic : disease that is constantly present in particular region but generally under control
7. Epidemic: contagious disease that spreads rapidly through population of a specific region
8. Hypochondria : Obsession with real and imagined physical ailments
9. Etiology: cause of specific disease
10. Iatrogenic: resulting from treatment
11. Incubation period: time between entry of disease organisms into body and onset of disease symptoms
12. Morbidity : state of being diseased
13. Moribund: dying
14. Mortify : cause body tissue to decay
15. Pandemic: epidemic disease that spreads to different countries over large region
16. Pathogenic: disease causing
17. Pathology: study of disease processes and course of disease
18. Prognosis : assessment of future course and outcome of patient’s disease
19. Virulent: disease producing
20. Zoonosis: any infectious disease of animals such as rabies that can be transmitted to humans

Fitness

1. Aerobics: vigorous exercise
2. Calisthenics: individual gymnastics
3. Dancercise : system of vigorous dance movements done to music for fitness
4. Ergonomics:  study or practice of adapting working environment to needs of the body
5. Herbalism : use of herbs for healing
6. Kinesiology: : principle of anatomy and mechanics in human movements
7. Work out: strenuous exercise especially aerobic

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