Medicine & Health

Advanced health and medical vocabulary

Introducción

Las conversaciones sobre salud a menudo requieren vocabulario más allá de las partes del cuerpo y enfermedades comunes. Entender terminología médica te ayuda a navegar sistemas de salud, leer sobre tratamientos y hablar de bienestar a un nivel más profundo.

Este capítulo cubre vocabulario avanzado de medicina y salud. Desde terminología diagnóstica hasta conceptos de salud pública, estas palabras te preparan para una comunicación más sofisticada sobre temas de salud.

Temas

Todos los Vocabulario avanzado en este capítulo (26)

• diagnosis The identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examinatio...
• prognosis A forecast of the likely course and outcome of a disease or illness; more bro...
• chronic Of a disease or condition, persisting for a long time or constantly recurring...
• acute Of a disease or condition, severe and sudden in onset but typically of short ...
• therapeutic Relating to the healing of disease or the treatment of a disorder; also, havi...
• pathology The science of the causes and effects of diseases, especially as examined thr...
• inflammation A localised physical condition in which part of the body becomes reddened, sw...
• antibody A protein produced by the immune system in response to the presence of a fore...
• vaccine A substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immuni...
• pharmaceutical Relating to the preparation, dispensing, and use of medicinal drugs; as a nou...
• dosage The size or frequency of a dose of a medicine or drug; the administration of ...
• syndrome A group of symptoms that consistently occur together and characterise a parti...
• benign In medicine, of a tumour or growth, not cancerous or harmful; more broadly, g...
• malignant In medicine, of a tumour, tending to invade normal tissue and spread to other...
• remission A temporary or permanent decrease in the severity of disease symptoms; in oth...
• rehabilitation The process of restoring someone to health or normal life through therapy and...
• epidemiology The branch of medicine that studies the distribution, patterns, and determina...
• prevalence The proportion of a population found to have a particular condition at a spec...
• incidence The rate at which new cases of a disease or condition occur in a population o...
• morbidity The condition of being diseased or the rate of disease in a population; also,...
• mortality The state of being subject to death; the death rate in a given population, es...
• surgical Relating to or used in surgery; figuratively, describing an action carried ou...
• congenital Of a disease or condition, present from birth, whether inherited genetically ...
• neurological Relating to the anatomy, functions, and disorders of the nervous system, incl...
• cardiac Relating to the heart, especially in medical contexts; as a noun, a person wi...
• respiratory Relating to or affecting breathing or the organs and structures involved in b...