Diseased Organism

A Diseased Organism is an organism with a disease or serious health condition (that impairs biological function without external injury).

• AKA: Ill Individual, Sick Being.
• Context:
  • It can (typically) experience Disease Symptoms through pathological process.
  • It can (typically) show Clinical Signs through biological dysfunction.
  • It can (typically) require Medical Care through healthcare intervention.
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  • It can (often) need Disease Management through treatment protocol.
  • It can (often) face Health Challenges through functional limitation.
  • It can (often) undergo Clinical Assessment through medical evaluation.
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  • It can range from being a Mildly Diseased Organism to being a Severely Diseased Organism, depending on its disease severity.
  • It can range from being an Acutely Diseased Organism to being a Chronically Diseased Organism, depending on its condition duration.
  • It can range from being a Temporarily Diseased Organism to being a Permanently Diseased Organism, depending on its recovery potential.
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  • It can require Medical Treatment through therapeutic intervention.
  • It can undergo Disease Progression through pathological development.
  • It can experience Quality of Life changes through health impact.
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• Examples:
  • Human Disease Cases, such as:
    • Chronic Disease Patients, such as:
      • Diabetes Patient with metabolic disorder.
      • Cancer Patient with malignant condition.
    • Acute Disease Patients, such as:
      • Pneumonia Patient with respiratory infection.
      • Heart Attack Patient with cardiac event.
  • Animal Disease Cases, such as:
    • Domestic Animal Patients, such as:
      • Pet with infectious disease.
      • Livestock with parasitic infection.
    • Wildlife Patients, such as:
      • Wild Animal with viral disease.
      • Marine Mammal with bacterial infection.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Injured Organism, which has physical trauma rather than disease.
  • Healthy Organism, which lacks pathological condition.
  • Recovering Organism, which is healing from previous disease.
• See: Disease, Health Condition, Medical Treatment, Clinical Care, Pathology.

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References

2018

• (Wikipedia, 2018) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/disease Retrieved:2018-7-29.
  • A disease is any condition which results in the disorder of a structure or function in an organism that is not due to any external injury. The study of disease is called pathology, which includes the study of cause. Disease is often construed as a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs. It may be caused by external factors such as pathogens or by internal dysfunctions, particularly of the immune system, such as an immunodeficiency, or by a hypersensitivity, including allergies and autoimmunity. When caused by pathogens (e.g. malaria by Plasmodium ssp.), the term disease is often misleadingly used even in the scientific literature in place of its causal agent, the pathogen. This language habit can cause confusion in the communication of the cause-effect principle in epidemiology, and as such it should be strongly discouraged. In humans, disease is often used more broadly to refer to any condition that causes pain, dysfunction, distress, social problems, or death to the person afflicted, or similar problems for those in contact with the person. In this broader sense, it sometimes includes injuries, disabilities, disorders, syndromes, infections, isolated symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of structure and function, while in other contexts and for other purposes these may be considered distinguishable categories. Diseases can affect people not only physically, but also emotionally, as contracting and living with a disease can alter the affected person's perspective on life. Death due to disease is called death by natural causes. There are four main types of disease: infectious diseases, deficiency diseases, genetic diseases (both hereditary and non-hereditary), and physiological diseases. Diseases can also be classified as communicable and non-communicable. The deadliest diseases in humans are coronary artery disease (blood flow obstruction), followed by cerebrovascular disease and lower respiratory infections.

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