Archives: Glossary Terms

Self-Monitoring

Tracking health behaviors (e.g., steps, diet) to increase awareness in coaching.

Sepsis

Life-threatening immune response to infection causing organ failure.

Septicemia

Bloodstream infection causing systemic illness, often fatal.

Sinusitis

Sinus infection causing facial pain, nasal congestion, often bacterial.

Smallpox

Eradicated viral disease causing severe rash, fever, high mortality.