Acute | Rapid onset |
Aetiology | Cause of the disease |
Chronic | Slow onset and long duration |
Communicable | One way or another is spreads |
Congenital | Present at birth genetically or prenatally |
Constitutional | Hereditary make-up and involving the body as a whole |
Contagious | Rapidly spreads from one person to another |
Deficiency | Disease comes from degeneration of tissues and organs |
Disease | Pathological condition of the body presenting its own symptoms and is an abnormal entity affecting all or parts of the body |
Endemic | Continuously found in a community |
Familial | In several members of a family |
Functional | No anatomical changes account for the disease |
Hereditary | Passed down |
Iatrogenic | Disease resulting from physicians (e.g., autosuggestion caused by examination) |
Idiopathic | No causative factor |
Infectious | Pathogenic organism in the body |
Malignant | Rapid and threatening death |
Occupational | Work source |
Organic | Anatomical changes in organ or tissue |
Pandemic | Very widespread disease affecting the whole country |
Parasitic | From a parasite |
Pathology | Essential nature of the disease in structural and functional changes in tissues and body organs which cause or are caused by the disease |
Periodic | Regular disease |
Prognosis | Forecast of the result of the disease and the prospect of recovery |
Psychosomatic | Mind and emotional cause |
Sporadic | Occasional outbreak |
Subacute | Less pronounced but more prolonged than acute |
Veneral | Sexual cause |