8.1 Mystery Illness
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| Biomedical Science | The application of the principles of the natural sciences, especially biology and physiology, to clinical medicine.
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| Blood Pressure | The force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood and expressed in millimeters of mercury.
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| Contagious | Communicable by contact.
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| Diagnose | To recognize a disease by signs and symptoms.
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| Diastolic Pressure | Blood pressure that remains between heart contractions.
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| Epidemic | An infectious disease that spreads rapidly and sickens a large number of people.
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| Heart Rate | A measure of cardiac activity usually expressed as the number of beats per minute.
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| Homeostasis | The ability of an organism or cell to maintain equilibrium by adjusting its physiological processes in order to function properly.
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| Hypothermia | Overheating of the body, possibly due to extreme weather conditions.
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| Hypertension | High blood pressure.
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| Hypothermia | Abnormally low body temperature.
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| Infection | The state produced by the establishment of an infective agent in or on a suitable host.
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| Inoculation | The introduction of a pathogen or antigen into a living organism to stimulate the production of antibodies.
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| Outbreak | A sudden rise in the incidence of a disease.
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| Pathogen | Any disease-producing agent such as a virus, bacteria, or parasite.
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| Pulse | The rhythmic expansion and recoil of arteries resulting from heart contraction; can be felt from the outside of the body.
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| Symptom | Something that indicates the presence of bodily disorder.
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| Systolic Pressure | The blood pressure generated by the heart during contraction.
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| Vaccine | A harmless variant of a pathogen that stimulates a host’s immune system to mount defenses against the pathogen.
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| Vital Signs | Measurements of the body’s most basic functions and useful in detecting or monitoring medical problems.
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| Immune System | Network of cells, tissues and organs that work together to defend the body against “foreign” invaders. They seek out and destroy invading viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi.
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| Virus | A sub-microscopic particle that must infect living plant or animal cells to reproduce.
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| Treatment | A session of medical care given to a patient or dosage of medicine or other remedy
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