human disease

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Introduction
Health versus disease
Maintenance of health
- Homeostasis
  - Fluid and electrolyte balance
  - Acid-base equilibrium
  - Thermoregulation
  - Metabolic control
- Adaptation
- Defense against biotic invasion
  - Maintenance of the integrity of skin and mucosal linings
  - Phagocytic cells of the body
  - The inflammatory response
  - The immune response
- Repair and regeneration
- Hemostasis
- Interrelationship of defensive mechanisms
Disease: signs and symptoms
The causes of disease
- Diseases of genetic origin
  - Factors relating to genetic injury
  - Heredity and environment
- Chemical and physical injury
  - Chemical injury: poisoning
    - Organic chemicals
    - Inorganic chemicals
    - Drugs
  - Physical injury
    - Injuries from cold or heat
    - Electrical injuries
    - Pressure-change injuries
    - Radiation injury
- Diseases of immune origin
  - Immune deficiencies
  - Immune responses in the absence of infection
    - Allergies
    - Autoimmune disorders
    - Graft rejection
- Diseases of biotic origin
  - Factors in infection
    - Infectious agents
    - Invasiveness and virulence
    - Predisposition of the host
  - Viral diseases
  - Rickettsial diseases
  - Bacterial diseases
  - Fungi and other parasites
- Abnormal growth of cells
  - Normal and abnormal cell growth
    - Cell growth inhibition
    - Neoplasms: malignant and benign tumours
  - Characteristics of cancer
    - Epidemiology
    - The role of genetics
    - Heredity and environment
  - Carcinogenic agents
    - Chemicals
    - Radiant energy
    - Viruses
- Diseases of metabolic-endocrine origin
- Diseases of nutrition
  - Diseases of nutritional excess
  - Diseases of nutritional deficiency
- Diseases of neuropsychiatric origin
  - Psychiatric diseases
  - Neurological diseases
    - Alzheimer’s disease
    - Huntington’s chorea
    - Parkinson’s disease
- Diseases of senescence
Classifications of diseases

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