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| a disease that is spread from one living thing to another through the environment |
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| an organism that causes disease |
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| a condition that occurs when pathogens enter the body, multiply, and damage body cells |
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| pieces of gentetic material surrounded by a protein coat |
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| single-celled microorganisms |
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| substance that kills cells or interferes with their functions |
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| an organism, usually an arthropod, such as a tick, that carries and transmits pathogens to humans or other animals |
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| precribed medicine that treats bacterial infections |
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| fungi, protozoans, rickettsias,bacteria, viruses |
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| direct contact for transmitting diseases |
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| kissing, touching, biting, sneezing, coughing, sexual contact |
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| indirect contact for transmitting diseases |
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| contaminated objects, vectors, water, food |
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| pathogens floating in the air for a long time and traveling distances |
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| most effective way to prevent the spread of disease |
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| eating food that is improperly handled |
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| network of cells, tissures, organs, and chemicals that fights off pathogens |
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| reaction to tissue damage caused by injury and infection |
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| white blood cell that attacks invading pathogens |
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| substance that is capable of triggering an immune response |
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| the state of being protected against a particular disease |
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| specialized white blood cell that coordinates and performs many of the functions of specific immunity |
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| a protein that acts against a specific antigen |
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| preparation of dead or weakened pathogens that are introduced into the body to stimulate an immune response |
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| lymphocytes that attack and destroy infected body cells |
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| lymphocytes that produce antibodies |
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| inactivated pathogens used in vaccines |
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| infection of the lungs in which air sacs fill with pus and other liquid |
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| inflammation of the liver caused by chemicals, pathogens, drugs and alcohol |
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| virus that is spread through contact with feces |
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| virus transmitted through blood and sexual contact |
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| bloodbourne viral infection |
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| yellowing of the skin and eyes |
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| communicable disease whose incidence in humans has increased within the past two decades or threatens to increase in the future |
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| bacterial infection that attacks the lungs |
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| bacterial infection with sore throat and fever that lasts more than 3 days |
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| can be cured with antibiotics |
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| viral infection from direct or indirect contact infecting the respiratory tract with high fever,body aches, headache, fatigue, cough |
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| viral infection that causes inflammation of the mucous membranes of the throat and nose |
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| disease that is not transmitted by another person, vector, or the environment |
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| disease that affects the heart and blood vessels |
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| process in which plaque accumulates on the walls of the arteries |
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| chest pain that results when the heart does not get enough oxygen |
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| pumps 100,000 times a day |
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| Mrs. Hillestad's Class vision |
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| everyone in 9th grade gets an A in health |
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| electrical impulses regulating the heart become rapdi or irregular |
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| damage to the heart muscle due to a reduced or blocked blood supply |
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| heart weakens and cannot maintain its regular pumping rate or force |
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| arterial blockage interrupts the flow of blood to the brain or a blood vessel bursts |
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| risk factors for cardiovascular disease |
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tobacco use
High Blood Pressure
High cholesterol
physical inactivity
excess weight
stress
drug and alcohol use |
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| risk factore for CVD that you cannot control |
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| uncontrollable growth of abnormal cells |
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| abnormal mass of tissue that has no natural role in the body |
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| cancer cells spread throughout the body where they divide and form new tumors |
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| cancers of the immune system |
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| cancers of the blood-forming organs |
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| cancers of the skin, and body linings |
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| cancers of connective tissues, including bones, |
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| removal of a small peice of tissue for examination |
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| period of time when symptoms disappear |
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| remove some or all of the cancerous masses from the body |
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| aims rays from radioactive substances at cancer cells |
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| uses chemicals to destroy cancer cells |
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| activates a person's immune system to recognize specific cancers and destroy them |
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| using medicines that interfere with the production of hormones to kill or slow the cancer growth |
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| specific reaction of the immune system to a foreign and frequently harmless substance |
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| chemicals that can stimulate mucus and fluid production in an area |
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| skin in an area swells and turns red |
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| skin tests, blood test, food elimination diet |
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| inflammatory condition in which the small airways in the lungs become narrowed causing difficulty in breathing |
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| chronic disease that affects the way body cells convert into energy |
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| condition in which the immune system mistakenly attacks itself targeting the cells, tissues, and organs of person's own body |
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| autoimmune disease that occurs when T cells attack and destroy most of the beta cells in the pancreas that are needed to produce insulin, so that the pancreas makes too little insulin or no insulin and glucose builds up in the blood starving cells from the energy that they need. |
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| your body either resists the effects of insulin, the hormone that regulates the movement of sugar into your cells — or doesn't produce enough insulin to maintain a normal glucose level |
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| group of more than 100 different diseases that cause pain and loss of movement |
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| disease of the joints in which cartilage breaks down |
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| disease characterized by the dibiliatating destruction of the joints due to inflammation |
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