Physical Exam
Exam Types
Basic Terms
Types of Disease
Disease Terms
100
Term for the description of an animal.
What is signalment?
100
A written account of what has happened to the patient.
What is history?
100
The determination of the cause of a disease.
What is diagnosis?
100
This type of disease can be spread from one animal to another.
What is contagious?
100
Term used to describe how a patient contracts a disease.
What is transmission?
200
Term for evaluation of a condition.
What is assessment?
200
Term for listening to body sounds.
What is auscultation?
200
The term for somthing about a patient assessed by others.
What is sign?
200
This type of disease is caused by treatment.
What is iatrogenic?
200
Term used to describe how likely it is that a patient will become sick from a disease.
What is morbidity?
300
Term for parameters from the animal to assess its health.
What is vital signs?
300
Term for examination by feeling.
What is palpation?
300
The term that is used incorrectly in vet med that means something sensed by the patient.
What is symptom?
300
This is a disease of unknown cause.
What is idiopathic?
300
Term used for prevention of a disease.
What is prophylaxis?
400
A patient's weight should always be recorded in this form.
What is kilograms?
400
Term for examination by tapping the body surface.
What is percussion?
400
The term for prediction of an outcome.
What is prognosis?
400
This disease cannot be contracted.
What noninfectious?
400
Term that describes how likely it is that a patient will die from a disease.
What is mortality?
500
A patient's mental status is called this.
What is level of consciousness?
500
The initial physical exam is usually performed by this person in a clinic.
What is vet tech?
500
The term meaning having a long course and a progressive onset.
What is chronic?
500
This type of disese is contracted in a clinic or hospital.
What is nosocomial?
500
Term for a disease that humans can catch from animals.
What is zoonotic?
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