Category: D

A photograph produced through radiation for the purpose of detecting and diagnosing a disease.  

Subjective and objective evidence of a person’s physiologic state and/or emotional state, and of specific disease processes.  

Prospective billing categories established by the federal government for Medicare reimbursements to hospitals for patient’s illnesses, injuries, and surgical procedures.  

The practice of examining ideas by considering opposing forces and the change that is likely to be produced by those forces.  

Diagnosis.  

A classification system developed by the American Psychiatric Association that specifies behavior criteria for determining a diagnosis based on clinical observation. As of this writing, DSM-IV is the latest edition. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association. It categorizes mental disorders and their descriptive characteristics to assist in their diagnosis. It is…

A disorder of the blood vessels in the retina develops most often in older diabetic patients who have had the condition for many years causes blurred vision or it can block vision from broken blood vessels leaking into the retina or it can lead to blindness, although blindness can sometimes be averted through early detection…

A person with excessive amounts of sugar in the blood as a result of inadequate secretion or use of insulin in the body.  

In uncontrolled diabetes and starvation, an abnormal utilization of carbohydrates results in excessive production of ketone bodies during oxidation of fatty acids. A complication of diabetes in which free fatty acids in the liver are broken down into substances harmful to the body. Ketoacidosis may lead to decreased blood volume, sweating, nausea, vomiting, mental changes,…

A condition resulting from insufficient insulin in the body, characterized by confusion, stupor, sweating, acetone odor on the breath, red lips, thirst, hunger, fever, vomiting, weak pulse, and coma. Decreased level of consciousness that can occur in diabetes mellitus as a result of failure to take prescribed insulin or in the presence of some stress…