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Encyclopedia > Terminal illness
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Terminal illness is medical terminology popularized in the 20th century for an active and malignant disease which cannot be cured and is expected to lead to death. Palliative care is often prescribed to manage symptoms and improve quality of life. A patient who has such an illness is referred to as a terminal patient or terminally ill. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Computer vision syndrome is a repetitive stress disorder of the eyes generally associated with prolonged use of a computer monitor. ... Medical terminology is a process of accurately describing the human body and associated components, conditions, processes and procedures in a science based manner. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... The term disease refers to an abnormal condition of an organism that impairs function. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Palliative care (from Latin palliare, to cloak) is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of disease symptoms or slowing the diseases progress, rather than providing a cure. ...


Certain types of cancer, emphysema, liver failure, kidney failure, asbestosis, mesothelioma, some mental illness and heart disease may be considered fatal, although liver failure, kidney failure and even heart disease could possibly be cured with an organ transplant. AIDS could be considered a terminal illness, but most patients with AIDS succumb to other illnesses due to their deficient immune systems. Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these to spread, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion, or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis (where cancer cells are transported through the bloodstream or lymphatic system). ... Liver failure is the final stage of liver disease. ... Renal failure is when the kidneys fail to function properly. ... Asbestosis is a chronic inflammatory medical condition affecting the parenchymal tissue of the lungs. ... A mental illness or mental disorder refers to one of many mental health conditions characterized by distress, impaired cognitive functioning, atypical behavior, emotional dysregulation, and/or maladaptive behavior. ... Heart disease is an umbrella term for a number of different diseases which affect the heart and is the leading cause of death in the United States as of 2007. ... An organ transplant is the moving of a whole or partial organ from one body to another (or from a donor site on the patients own body), for the purpose of replacing the recipients damaged or failing organ with a working one from the donor site. ... Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). ... A scanning electron microscope image of a single neutrophil (yellow), engulfing anthrax bacteria (orange). ...


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This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Euthanasia (from Ancient Greek: ευθανασία, good death) is the practice of ending the life of a terminally ill person in a painless or minimally painful way, for the purpose of limiting suffering. ... Alternative medicine is defined as any of various systems of healing or treating disease (as chiropractic, homeopathy, or faith healing) not included in the traditional medical curricula taught in the United States and Britain.[1] Complementary medicine is defined as any of the practices (as acupuncture) of alternative medicine accepted... Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a very rare and incurable degenerative neurological disorder (brain disease) that is ultimately fatal. ... A DNR/DNI, or Do Not Resuscitate/Do Not Intubate order, is a written order from a doctor that resuscitation should not be attempted if a person suffers cardiac or respiratory arrest. ...

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Terminal illness insurance cover (366 words)
Terminal Illness Insurance pays out if you are diagnosed with an illness from which you are expected to die within 12 months of diagnosis.
With Critical Illness Insurance you do NOT have to be expected to die within 12 months after diagnosis and there are many serious illnesses that fall into that category.
Consider carefully the merits of Critical Illness Insurance and the difference between it and Terminal Illness Insurance.
terminal illness - south africa (269 words)
A terminal illness is an illness which can not be cured and therefore the main objective of most private nurses which attend to patients with a terminal illness is to ensure that they are as comfortable as possible and that they suffer from no unnecessary pain resulting from their terminal illness.
Terminal illness is not only physically effecting on the patient but emotionally as well as the terminally ill patient needs to come to terms with the terminal illness which occurs in the body.
A terminally ill patient needs to be mentally strong in order to battle the terminal illness and in some cases are able to overcome a terminal illness by being psychologically strong.
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