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STI Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Antibiotics | drugs to fight bacterial infection |
Asymptomatic | No signs of illness of infection |
Bacteria | illness/infection that can be treated/cured with antibiotics |
Pathogens | Microbes that cause disease |
Drug Resistant | Pathogens that have lost their sensitivity to particular drugs |
Immunity | The body’s capacity for identifying, destroying, and disposing of disease causing agents |
Infectious Diseases | Diseases caused and transmitted from person to person, by microorganism or their toxins |
Antibodies | large protein molecules produced to fight invaders |
T Cells | Lymphocytes that can recognize invaders that cause illness |
Pneumocysitis Carinii (PCP) | A type of pneumonia characteristics of AIDS |
Kaposi’s Sarcoma | Abnormally rare skin cancer causing a purplish discoloration of the skin |
Protease inhibitors | Drugs that stop the action of an enzyme which ordinarily helps HIV to reproduce |
Symptom | Sings of illness infection |
Vaccine | A drug made from altered microbes or their poison injected or given by mouth to produce immunity. |
Virus | Diseases that cannot be cured; only treated with anti-viral medications |
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) | An infection of the fallopian tubes and pelvic cavity in females causing ectopic pregnancy and miscarriages. |
Chancre | A hard painless sore |
Pap test | A test for cancer of the cervix |
Monogamous | Having sexual relations with one partner only, excluding all others |
Abstinence | Refraining completely from sexual relations with other people |
Spermicide | A chemical that kills sperm |