Vocabulary Part I
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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Pathogenesis | The manner in which a disease develops
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Competitive exclusion | Growth of some microbes inhibits the growth of other microbes
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Symbiosis | Living together of two different organisms or populations
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Probiotics | Microbes inoculated into a host to occupy niche & prevent pathogen growth
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Symptoms | Change in body function felt by a patient as a result of disease
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Signs | Change due to disease that a person can observe & measure
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Syndrome | Specific group of signs/symptoms that accompany a disease
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Communicability | Spread from one host to another
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Contagious | Easily spread from one person to another
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incidence | Fraction of population that contracts disease during particular period of time
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Prevalence | Fraction of population having a "specific" disease at a given time
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Sporadic | Occurs occasionally in a population
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Endemic | Constantly present in a certain population
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Pandemic | Epidemic that occurs world-wide
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Acute | Rapid symptoms, short-lived
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Chronic | Slow development, continue/recurs for long periods of time
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Latent | Period of no symptoms/ pathogen inactive
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Systemic | Deep within/ Throughout body
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Sepsis | Presence of toxin/ Pathogenic organism in blood & tissue
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Septicemia | Proliferation of pathogens in blood, accompanied by fever/ Sometimes causes liver damage
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Bacteremia | Bacteria in blood
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Toxemia | toxins in blood
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Viremia | Viruses in blood
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Primary Infection | Acute infection that causes initial illness
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Secondary Infection | Infection caused opportunistic microbe after a primary infection has weaken defenses
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Subclinical Infection | Infection not causing notable illness (in-apparent)
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