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Parenting
Parenting Challenges Unit4 Terms
Question | Answer |
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Oversensitivity to one or more common substance | Allergies |
A procedure for forcing air into the lungs of a person whose breathing has stopped | Artificial respiration |
A condition affecting the lungs in which air passages tighten, making it difficult to breathe | Asthma |
Physical, emotional, or sexual violence against children | Child abuse |
Failure to meet the child's physical or emotional needs | Child neglect |
Illnesses that are easily passed from one person to another | Communicable diseases |
The ability to be spread from one person to another; the period during which a communicable disease can be spread to another person | Contagious |
A seizure or a period of unconscious with uncontrolled jerking of muscles | Convulsion |
First aid technique that tries to restore breathing and heartbeat to persons who shows no signs of breathing or a pulse | CPR(cardiopulmonary resuscitation) |
A break or crack in a bone | Fracture |
Procedure that removes food or other obstacles from a choking persons airways | Heimlich maneuver |
To protect a person from disease, usually by means of a vaccine | Immunization |
A special unit that gives advice for treatment of poisoning | Poison control center |
A serious type of physical abuse that occurs when a baby is violently shaken | Shaken baby syndrome |
An injury caused by a sudden, violent stretching of a joint or muscle | Sprain |
A small amount of disease-carrying germs introduced to the body on purpose so that the body can build resistance to that disease | Vaccine |
The process of acquiring and maintaining physical, mental, emotional, and social health | Wellness |