Building a Medical Dictionary: Defining Terms in Healthcare Practice

This assignment presents a medical dictionary comprising definitions of essential healthcare terms. The dictionary covers a range of topics, including general health, disease, the integumentary system, nutrition, biochemical reactions, aesthetic medicine, professional and integrated practices, aesthetic procedures, mitosis, muscular and respiratory systems, metabolism, tissue organization, wellness, the musculoskeletal and endocrine systems, the nervous system, hormones, diagnosis, prognosis, and homeostatic mechanisms, as well as genetic disorders. Each term is defined with examples and, where applicable, references to relevant literature. This resource provides a foundational understanding of medical terminology for students and professionals alike. Desklib offers a wealth of similar solved assignments and study resources to aid students in their academic pursuits.

Development of a Medical
Dictionary

1. Health- Health refers to the state of mental, social and physical well-being of a
person, not just the absence of infirmity and disease. For example- Balanced diet
(Negrete, 2019).
2. Disease: Disease is something harmful which can influence the normal structure,
function or state of an organism in human being. For example- Common cold,
influenza (Nestor, Arnold and Fischer, 2020).
3. Integumentary system: It is the largest organ in human body which forms a physical
barrier between internal environment and external environment which serves for
maintenance and protection. For example- Skin (Ceruso and et.al., 2021).
4. Nutrition: Nutrition is a procedure of being nourished or nourishing in humans. It
involves all the stuff which is in the food. For example- vitamins, proteins and fat
5. Bio-chemical reactions: It is the process of transformation of a molecule to different
molecule within a cell. They are mediated by enzymes that are biological catalysts
that alter the rate of chemical reaction in cells. For example- Dehydration (Jung,
2019)
6. Aesthetic medicine: it is type of medical speciality which concentrates on enhanced
cosmetic appearance which are attained through treating certain conditions. For
example- Wrinkles, moles and discoloured (Villa and et.al., 2020).
7. Professional practice: It is the procedure to conduct and work of someone from a
particular professional profession. For example- Practice of medicine, Podiatry.
8. Integrated practice: Integrated practices are the units which are organizes around the
patient and also associated with providing them a full cycle of care for a particular
medical condition. It involves engagement, follow-up and patient education as well.
For example- cancer care, chronic disease management (Schlessinger and et.al.,
2017).
9. Aesthetic procedures: Aesthetic procedures are those procedures which improves the
appearance of face and body of a person. They are also referred as cosmetic surgery.
For example- Face lift, Eyelid surgery and rhinoplasty (Kane and Monheit, 2017).

10. Mitosis: Mitosis is the process in which cells are created through cell divisions. It
helps in creating the identical copies of cells in body. For example- Creating new skin
cells in order to replace the dead skin cells.
11. Muscular systems: It is the organs system in human body which consists of smooth,
cardiac and skeleton muscles. They allow the movement of body, circulate blood in
whole body as well maintains the posture of body as well. For example- Cardiac
muscles such as muscles of the heart (Pfeiffer, 2021).
12. Respiratory system: It is the network of organs and tissues which helps the human
body to breathe. The main purpose of this is to absorb oxygen from air so that human
organs can work. For example- Diaphragm, lungs and throat (pharynx) (Law and
Martin., 2020).
13. Metabolism: Metabolism is the chemical reactions in human body which helps in
converting food into energy. As the human body needs energy to do everything from
thinking to moving to growing. For example- glucose molecules.
14. Tissues level of organization: It is the group of cells in human body which works
together to accomplish one or more specific functions. For example- Bladder is made
up of inner lining of epithelial tissue (Cohen and Jones, 2020).
15. Wellness: Wellness is the state of being in a good health through good life styles
which promote wellness in humans. For example- Exercise, nutrition, mindfulness.
16. Musculoskeletal system: Musculoskeletal system consists of various parts of body
such as bones and muscles which work together to support the weight of body and
helps in moving. For example- Bones, ligaments and connective (Watermeyer,
Thwala and Beukes, 2021).
17. Endocrine systems: they are the glands and organs of human body which makes
hormones and then release them directly in blood so that they can travel to all the
organs and tissues in all over the body. It is made of glands ad organs which creates
hormones which control many important functions of human body. For example-
Thyroid, adrenal glands and testes (Derevianchenko and et.al., 2018).
18. Nervous system: Nervous system is an organized group of cells which are specialised
for the conduction of various electrochemical stimuli from the sensory receptors

through a network towards the site at which a response from brain occurs. For
example- When a person touches a hot thing, the pull back immediately because
nervous systems sends those signals to brain.
19. Hormones: Hormones are the chemical substances which act like a messenger
molecular in human body. They are made in one part of the human body and then
they travel to other parts of the body in which they help in controlling how organs and
cells work. For example- Cortisol, Estrogen and Insulin etc. (Mentis and
Papavassiliou, 2018).
20. Diagnosis: It is the act of identifying a diseases through the symptoms and signs. The
decision of diagnosis is reached by doctor’s diagnosis. It might also be referred to the
analysis if reasons, causes and nature of problem or situation for its diagnosis. It is
done for the purpose of statement or conclusion from the analysis. For example- For
the treatment of eye disease, the diagnosis might be a mild concussion (Venes, 2017).
21. Prognosis: It is the outcome or course of a disease or the chance of recovery from a
disease. It is the opinion of a professional regarding the process of recovery from an
illness or injury. For example: Prognosis of lung cancer might not be very accurate
(Cral, 2021).
22. Homeostatic mechanisms: It is the tendency of an organisms to regulate the chemical
processes which take place internally in order to maintain health and functioning of
human body regardless of outside conditions. For example: The ability of human
body to maintain steady body temperature
23. Genetic disorders: It is the illness which is caused due to the changes in a person’s
DNA. It is the disease which is caused in whole body or in a part of body due to a
change in DNA sequence away from the normal sequence I human body. For
example: Apert syndrome, Down syndrome and Cystic fibrosis (Barnett, 2021).

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