| Question |
Answer |
| caused by organisms or viruses that enter and multiply within the body |
infectious disease |
| microorganisms and viruses that cause disease |
pathogens |
| type of pathogen that causes food poisoning, strep throat, lyme disease, and staph infections |
bacteria |
| type of pathogen that causes the common cold, chicken pox, and measels |
virus |
| type of pathogen that causes athlete's foot and ringworm |
fungi |
| type of pathogen that causes malaria |
protozoans |
| how are pathogens spread |
through contact with an infected person or animal, contaminated objects, or contaminated food or water |
| fights disease by producing a seperate set of weapons for each kind of pathogen |
immune system |
| your body's ability to destroy pathogens that have been previously encountered |
immunity |
| injections that help you become immune to a disease |
immunizations |
| used to treat a bacterial disease |
antibiotic |
| an unusually high occurence of a disease in a certain place during a certain time frame |
epidemic |
| an infectious disease that has become increasily common within the last 20 years |
emerging disease |
| diseases of the heart and blood vessels |
cardivascular diseases |
| types of cardiovascular disease |
hypertension, heart attack, arrhythmia, congestive heart failure, and stroke |
| occurs when the heart doesn't get enough blood supply and dies |
heart attack |
| a sudden disruption of blood flow to part of the brain |
stroke |
| harms the body by destroying healthy body tissue |
cancer |
| mass of tissue |
tumor |
| a cancerous tumor |
malignant |
| non-cancerous tumor |
benign |
| cancer-causing agents |
carcinogens |
| cancer therapy that uses drugs to slow the reproduction of cancer cells |
chemotherapy |
| the removal of a small piece of tissue to examine it for cancer |
biopsy |
| disease in which the body's ability to use glucose is impaired |
diabetes |
| type of diabetes that usually first appears in children |
type 1 |
| type of diabetes that strikes overweight and sedebtary children |
type 2 |
| a disorder in which the immune system is overly sensitive to a particular substance |
allergy |
| a substance that causes an allergy |
allergen |
| a disorder in which a person's respiratory passages become inflamed and narrow significantly |
asthma |
| inflammation or irritation of a joint |
arthritis |
| the most common type of arthritis |
osteoarthritis |
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