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| sign | evidence of a disease, such as fever, that can be measured by others |
| symptom | can only be measured by the pateint, like a headache or pain |
| syndrome | a set of signs or symptoms that occur toegether as part of a specific disease |
| diagnosis | the identification of a disease |
| prognosis | forecast or prediction of the outcome of a disorder |
| acute | a disease or symptom that have a rapid onset, a severe course, and a relatively duration |
| chronic | a disease or sympton has a long duraction |
| remission | partial or complete dissappearance of the symptoms of a disease without achieving a cure |
| eponym | a disease, structure, or procedure that is named for the person who discovered or described him first |
| acronym | a word formed from the initial letter or letters of the major parts of a compound term. |
