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RT2: Ch 2 Fighting Disease With Disease
Term | Definition |
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cure | discovery that helps people recover or get better from a disease (noun, verb) |
challenge | difficulty, problem, or issue (noun, verb) |
century | period of 100 years (noun) |
epidemic | situation when a lot of people in an area get sick (noun) |
era | certain age or period of time in history (noun) |
immune system | body's natural defense against sickness (noun) |
infection | disease, virus, bacteria, or other sickness that develops when your body is weak and gets dirty (noun) |
late | general range of age or time: in the early / mid / __ 20s or 1900s (adjective) |
method | system, technique, routine, or way of doing something (noun) |
theory | idea or hypothesis used to explain something (noun) |
vaccine | shot, injection, or treatment that helps stop people from getting a disease (noun) |
virus | bug, infection, or disease that makes people sick; or a harmful computer code that spreads quickly (noun) |