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Terminology
Most important medical terminology, which are known to every people are as follows
In Medical field six words are very important to know everyone that what is difference between them. These six medical word are as follows:
1- Health,
2- Disease,
3- Cure,
4- Recovery,
5- Palliaton,
6- Suppression.
Health: –
- Health is a state of physical, mental and social well-being in which disease and infirmity are absent.
- The condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit. (Marriam-Webster dictionary)
- The condition of the body and the degree to which it is free from illness, or the state of being well. (Cambridge dictionary)
- A person’s health is the condition of their body and extent to which it is free from illness or able to resist illness. (Collins dictionary)
- Health is a state in which a person is not suffering any illness and is feeling well. (Collins dictionary)
- “A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. (according to WHO)
- According to Homeopathy, in the healthy condition of man, whole living organism is governed by a dynamic force (which is known as Vital Force). This force is organizing the harmonious functions of entire organism which results in feeling of normal sensations and functions.
- “Health is that balanced condition of the living organism in which the integrated, harmonious performance of the vital functions tends to the preservation of the organism and the normal development of the individual”. ( According to Dr. Stuart Close – Homeopath)
Concept of Health:
Harmonious performance of the vital force
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Balanced condition of the living organism
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Normal sensations and functions
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Free employment of the higher purpose of our existence
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Peace and happiness
Disease:
- a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that has a known cause and a distinctive group of symptoms, signs, or anatomical changes. (Merriam Webster dictionary)
- a particular quality or disposition regarded as adversely affecting a person or group of people. (Merriam Webster dictionary)
- (an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by an accident (Cambridge dictionary)
- something that is considered very bad in people or society (Cambridge dictionary)
- A disease is an illness which affects people, animals, or plants, for example one which is caused by bacteria or infection. (Collins dictionary)
- You can refer to a bad attitude or habit, usually one that a group of people have, as a disease. (Collins dictionary)
- an illness affecting humans, animals or plants, often caused by infection (Oxford dictionary)
- something that is very wrong with people’s attitudes, way of life or with society (Oxford dictionary)
Disease per se (Disease itself) is nothing but the alteration in the healthy state of an individual”. (Dr. Hahnemann – Founder of Homeopathy)
Concept of Disease:
Exposure to unfavourable
environment
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Abnormal Vital process
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Disturbance in the
harmonious state of mind and body
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Feeling of uneasiness
and discomfort
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Outwardly reflected
through the material body in the form of signs and symptom
Cure:
- To restore to health, soundness, or normality (Webster Dictionary)
- To free from something objectionable or harmful (Webster Dictionary)
- To make someone with an illness healthy again: (Cambridge dictionary)
- Cure (for something) something that will solve a problem, improve a bad situation, etc. a cure for poverty Science cannot provide a cure for all the world’s problems. (Oxford dictionary)
- “The highest ideal of a cure is rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of the health, or removal and annihilation of the disease in its whole extent, in the shortest, most reliable and most harmless way, on easily comprehensible principles.” (Dr Hahnemann – Founder of Homeopathy)
Recovery:
- The act or process of becoming healthy after an illness or injury : the act or process of recovering (Webester Dictionary)T
- The act or process of returning to a normal state after a period of difficulty (Webester Dictionary)
- The return of something that has been lost, stolen, etc. (Webester Dictionary)
- The process of becoming well again after an illness or injury: (Camridge Dictionary)
- The process of becoming successful or normal again after problems: (Camridge Dictionary)
- The process of getting something back: (Camridge Dictionary)
- The process of improving or becoming stronger again (Oxford Dictionary)
- The process of becoming well again after an illness or injury (Oxford Dictionary)
Palliation:
- Make (a disease or its symptoms) less severe without removing the cause. (Webster dictionary)
- To reduce the violence of (a disease); also : to ease (symptoms) without curing the underlying disease (Webster dictionary)
- To moderate the intensity of *trying to palliate the boredom* (Webster dictionary)
- (of a medicine or medical care) relieving pain without dealing with the cause of the condition. (Cambridge Dictionary)
Suppression:
- to end or stop (something) by force (Webster Dictinary)
- to keep (something) secret : to not allow people to know about or see (something) (Webster Dictionary)
- to not allow yourself to feel, show, or be affected by (an emotion) (Webster Dictionary)
- to prevent something from being seen or expressed or from operating: (Cambridge Dictionary)
- to end something by force: (Cambridge Dictionary)
- to prevent something from growing, developing or continuing (Oxford Dictionary)
- to prevent something from being published or made known (Oxford Dictionary)
- to prevent yourself from having or expressing a feeling or an emotion (Oxford Dictionary)
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