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Etiopathogenesis (etiopathogenesis)
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Etiopathogenesis (etiopathogenesis)

The etiopathogenesis is defined as the analysis of the causes and development of a pathology or an abnormal condition. The term derives from the union of "etiology" and "pathogenesis", which in the medical field indicate, respectively, the causal factors (etiology) and the mechanism of onset, and consequent development, of a pathological process (pathogenesis)

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Semeiotics

Semeiotics is that branch of medicine that studies the patient through the relief and interpretation of symptoms and signs. Not by chance the semeiotic term derives from semeion , a Greek word meaning sign. Let us briefly recall that the difference between signs and symptoms lies in the subjectivity of the former compared to the latter: thanks to their senses the patient feels a certain symptom (eg liver pain), which can be confirmed or not by the doctor in an objective manner (through investigations physical and laboratory)
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The Syncope and Sudden Death from Sport

By Dr. Stefano Casali Syncope The etymology of the word comes from the Greek "syn koptein" which means to break, interrupt, cut. From the clinical point of view it is the expression of an alteration of brain functions, generally due to a decrease in cerebral blood flow or to an electrical or metabolic dysfunction that can be the expression of different pathologies, from a benign and insignificant episode, to unexpected death
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Syndrome

Syndrome is a term widely used in medicine; its use indicates that complex of symptoms, objective and subjective, which characterizes a specific clinical picture. This constellation of signs and symptoms is not necessarily linked to a single disease, but may be similar to various morbid forms with different etiopathogenesis
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exuding

Transudation consists in the passage of a liquid, the so-called transudato , through a membrane; typical is the example of the liquid component of blood through the capillary wall. By definition, the transudate is particularly poor in proteins and cellular elements; it differs in this sense from the exudate, in which an important solid component is recognized formed by plasma proteins, blood cells and substances deriving from the destruction or from the metabolic activity of the damaged tissue
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