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GF&G LS One
Vocabulary Study
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| simulation | the process or act of imitation or acting out |
| simulate | to imitate how something happens in a real-world situation by acting it out with a model |
| initial carrier | the first person in a group to get a contagious disease |
| model | a way of representing something in the world to learn more about it |
| representation | a likeness or image of something |
| epidemiology | the study of how and why diseases occur |
| epidemiologist | a scientist who studies diseases and how they spread |
| sentinel case | person who begins the spread of disease in a group |
| communicable disease | a disease that spreads very readily from person to person |
| noncommunicable disease | a disease that cannot be passed on by the person who is sick to other people |