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Health Differ III
week3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| BACTERIURIA | BACTERIA IN URINE |
| UROSEPSIS | SEPSIS THAT RESULTS FROM A URINARY TRACT INFECTION |
| EXTERNAL OTITIS | AN INFECTION OF THE EXTERNAL AUDITORY CANAL OR THE AURICLE |
| OTITIS MEDIA | AN INFECTION OF THE MIDLE EAR |
| CROSS-SENSITIVITY | A SENSITIVITY, OR ALLERGY, TO ONE DRUG IS ASSOCIATED WITH A SENSITIVITY, OR ALLERGY TO ANOTHER DRUG |
| CRYSTALLURIA | CRYSTALS IN THE URINE |
| SYNERGISTIC EFFECT | THE RESULT OF TWO OR MORE DRUGS INTERACTING WITH EACH OTHER TO INCREASE THE THERAPEUTIC EFFEC OF ONE OR MORE |
| ANTITUBERCULAR DRUGS | MEDICATIONS THAT ARE USED IN THE TREATMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS (TB) |
| HEPATOTOXICITY | DAMAGE TO THE LIVER WHICH MAY RESULT FROM THE USE OF A MEDICATION |
| ANTIMYCOTIC DRUGS | ANTIFUNGAL DRUGS THAT ARE USED TO THE TREATMENT OF A FUNGAL INFECTION |
| ACTIVE IMMUNITY | KIND OF IMMUNITY THAt OCCURS WHEN THE BODY'S IMMUNE RESPONSE IS ACTIVATED BY THE PRESENCE OF A PATHOGEN, OR ANTIGEN, IN THE BODY. ALSO REFFERED TO AS NATURAL IMMUNITY |
| PASSIVE IMMUNITY | TYPE OF IMMNITY THAT OCCURS WHEN THE PERSON RECIEVES ANTIBODIES FROM A SOURCE OTHER THAN SELF. EX: NEWBORN GETS ____ IMMUNITY FROM THE MOTHER & A PERSON GETS ____IMMUNITY TO A PARTICULAR DISEASE WHEN THEY ARE IMMUNIZED AGAINST IT. |
| NATURAL IMMUNITY | THE KIND OF IMMUNITY THAT OCCURS WHEN THE BODY'S IMMUNE RESPONSE IS ACTIVATED BY THE PRESENCE OF A PATHOGEN IN THE BODY. ALSO REFERRED TO AS ACTIVE IMMUNITY |
| ATTENUATED VACCINES | VACCINES THAT CONTAIN A WEAKEND, LIVE MICROORGANISM TO PRODUCE IMMUNITY |
| CONJUGATE VACCINE | VACCINES THAT HAVE A TOXOID OR PROTEIN FROM ON ORGANISM THAT ATTACHES TO THE OUTER COAT OF THE PATHOGEN.MAKING A BRIDGE THE HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZEA TYPE B VACCINE IS AN EXAMPLE OF THIS |
| RECOMBNANT SUBUNIT VACCINES | VACCINES THAT INVOLVE THE INSERTION OF GENETIC MATERIAL, SUCH AS DNA, INTO A CELL OR ORGANISM RESULTING IN THE PRODUCTION OF LARGE QUANTIIES OF ANTIGENS THAT ARE THEN USED IN A VACCINE |
| STOMATITIS | AN INFLAMMATION OF THE ORAL MUCOSA, INCLUDING THE FLOOR OF THE MOUTH, TONGUE, CHEEKS, LIPS,PALATE, ECT |
| GIARDIASIS | PATHOGEN IN OUUR COUNTRY |
| AN INFECTION SPREAD BY LICE | PEDICULOSIS CAPIAS |
| Children and infants from 1 to 4 weeks are at greatest risk for this infectious disease. | shingelosis |
| A COAL TAR DERIVATIVE, BACTERIOSTATIC, INHIBIT BACTERIAL SYNTHESIS OF FOLIC ACID, TREAT UTI, 90% EFFECTIVE AGAINST E.COLI, POORLY SOLUBLE IN URINE & CAN CAUSE CYSTALLIZATION | SULFONAMIDES |
| MYCOBCTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS TB | S/S OF ___ ANOREXIA, COUGH 7 SPUTUM REDUCTION, INCREASED FEVER,NIGHT SWEATS, WEIGHT LOSS + ACID FAST BACILLI IN THE SPUTUM |
| ANTITUBERCULAR DRUGS | AGENTS THAT TREAT TUBERCULOSIS |
| MYCOSIS | INFECTION CAUSED BY A FUNGUS |
| FLUCONAZONE | TRADE NAME DIFLUCANRX: ANTIFUNGAL |
| PARESTHESIAS | ABNORMAL SENSATION SUCH AS NUMBNESS, TINGLING, BURNING AND PRICKLING |
| Hepatitis A Virus (HAV) | spread by fecal-oral route from person to person, by ingestion of contaminated food or water |
| Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) | spread by contact with blood and body fluids, heterosexuals with multipal partners, homosexuals and bisexual men, iv drug abusers |
| Varicella (Chickenpox) | Spread by direct contact, droplet & objects, infectious 1 day before outbreak to 6 days after |
| Measles (Rubeola) | Transmission through direct contact with droplets. Rash starts at head to toe involves the palms and soles |
| Pertussis (Whooping Cough) | Transmission: Direct contact or droplet,cough most common at night |
| Stomatitis | inflammation of the oral mucosa |
| aphthous stomatitis | canker sore |
| Enterobiasis (pinworms) | the most common helminthic infection in US |
| Giardiasis | The most common intestinal parasitic pathogen in the US |
| Infectious Mononucleosis | self-limiting infectious disesas. Etiology herpes-like Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DX with Spot Test. |
| Bacterial Meningitis | acute inflammation of the meniges and CSF |
| Kernig sign | flexing the thigh upward while on back and unable to straighten the other leg (Bacterial Meningitis) |
| Brudzinski sign | passive flexion of one knee into abd. witch leads to involuntary flexion of the opposite leg (Bacterial Meningitis) |
| Nuchal rigidity | inability to flex head forward due to rigidity (Bacterial Meningitis) |
| Sequela | secondary consequence of disease |
| Encephalitis | An inflammatory process of the CNS that is caused by a variety of organisms. |
| Tinea capitis | fungal infection of the scalp |
| Tinea Corporis | Fungal infection of the peripheral (kitten or puppy fungus) |
| Tinea Cruis | Jock itch |
| Tinea pedis | athlete's foot |
| Candidiasis (Candida albicans) | Vaginal fungus, Oral in infants, diaper dermatitis. |
| Pediculosis Capitis | Head lice |
| lyme disease | tick-borne disorder, Annular red ring in erthema chronicum migrans. RX with doxycycline, amoxicillin |
| Rocky Mountian sotted Fever | tick-born disorder, characteristic petechial rash on palms and soles. |
| Stevens-Johnson syndrome | A severe inflammatory eruption of the skin and mucous membranes |
| osteomyelitis | an infectious process in the bone, Staphylococcus aureus common caustive organism |
| Septic Arthritis | bacterial infection in the joint |
| Scarlet Fever | Communicable Disease- Day 1 white strawberry tongue, Day 2 Strawberry tongue |
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