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| What is another name for high blood pressure? |
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| What do carcinomas affect? |
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| What is the major defense strategy of the immune system? |
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| True or false. Diabetes, if left untreated, can cause blindness and limb amputation. |
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| an inflammatory condition in which the small air ways in the lung become narrow causing difficultly in breathing |
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| What does arthritis cause? |
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| pain and loss of movement in joints |
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| True or false. Does restistance to antibiotics influence emerging diseases? |
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| Reactions of the immune system to foreign substances and can range from mild to life threatening. |
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| What is the spread of cancer called? |
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| What causes the common cold and the flu? |
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| What are the two types of immunity? |
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| inflamation of the liver caused be pathogens |
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| What are the types of pathogens? |
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| viruses, bacteria, protozoans, and rickettsias |
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| An organism, usually an anthropod, that transmits pathogens. |
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| What is the best way to prevent disease? |
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| How is the common cold transmitted? |
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| airborne transmission, direct contact, and touching contaminated objects |
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| What is a melignant tumor? |
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| A tumor that spreads through the body; cancerous |
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| A mass of tissue with no natural role in the body. |
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| List cancer risk factors. |
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| tobacco use, diet, drinking, radiation, STDs |
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| the removal for diagnostic study of a piece of tissue from a living body. |
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| What does a histamine do? |
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| stimulates fluid production |
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| What does lymphoma cancer attack? |
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| What does carcinomas cancer target? |
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| What part of the body does sarcomas cancer damage? |
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| connective tissue (ex. bones, tissue, muscles) |
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| What does leukemia cancer affect? |
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| When a person has cancer, what is the period of time called where symptoms disappear? |
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| What eye condition damages the optic nerve? |
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| Define mental retardation. |
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| below average intellectual ability, present from birth to early childhood assosciated with difficulties with learning and socail adaptation |
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| cardiovascular condition caused by plaque build up on artery walls |
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| Define congestive heart failure. |
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| the gradual weakening of the heart |
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| What do Killer T cells do? |
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| attack and destroy infected body cells |
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| True or false. Are illegal drugs a risk factor for cardiovascular disease? |
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| Do antibiotics treat viruses or bacteria? |
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| What are the uncontrollable risk factors for cardiovascular disease? |
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| Is high cholestrol a risk factor for cardiovascular disease? |
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| Describe Type 1 Diabetes. |
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| The body does not produce insulin. |
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| Describe Type 2 Diabetes. |
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| The body does not produce enough or doesn't use insulin properly. |
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| a poisinous substance that kills cells. |
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| Can an asthma attack be triggered by stress? |
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