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bonewit chapter 9
Question | Answer |
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adolescent | An individual 12 to 18 years old |
Immunity | THe resistance of the body to the effects of a harmful agent, such as a pathogenic mo and its toxins |
Immunization (active,artificail) | The process of becoming immue through the use of vaccine or toxoid |
infant | a child from birth to 12 months |
Length(recument) | the measurement from the vertex of the head to the heel of the foot in a supine position |
Pediatrician | A physician who specializes in the care and developement of children and the diagnosis and tx of children's disease |
Pediatrics | the branch of mendicine that deal with the care and developement of the children and the diagnoses and tx of children's disease |
Preschool child | A child 3 to 6 years old |
School-age child | A child 6 to 12 years old |
Toddler | A child 1 to 3 years old |
Toxoid | A toxin (a poisonous substance produced by a bacterium) that has been treated by heat or chemicals to destroy its harmful properties. It is administered to an individual to prevent an infectious disease by stimulating the production of anitbodies. |
Vaccine | A suspension of attenuated or killed mo administered to an individual to prevent infectious disease by stimulating the production of antibodies in that individual |
Vertex | The top of the head. |