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A code of letters and numbers attached to the patient’s medical records by which all information concerning the patient can be tracked, e.g. cause of death.  

A system of assigning each patient to a particular nurse for all their care needs.    

A series of linked neurones along which nerve impulses travel. A path or a course; e.g., a pathway formed by neurons (cell bodies and their processes) over which impulses pass from their point of origin to their destination. A component of Snyder’s hope model that refers to the ability to envision one or more routes…

The study of unusual or diseased organs. The study of changes in body function caused by disease. Pathophysiology is concerned with changes in how organs function, rather than with disease-related changes in body structures. The study of how normal physiological processes are altered by disease.  

A report on tests carried out to find the cause of a disease.  

The dislocation of a diseased joint. A dislocation resulting from paralysis or disease of the joint or supporting tissues.  

An unusually severe state of depression, possibly leading to suicide.  

The ability of a pathogen to cause a disease. The state of producing or being able to produce pathological changes and disease. The quality or characteristic of being pathogenic pertains to the ability to cause disease, and is frequently measured by its degree of virulence. However, it is important to maintain a distinction between pathogenicity…

Referring to pathogenesis.  

The fact of being or becoming a father. The identity of a father.