Medical Professionals
A medical professional who studies and investigates the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases.
Who is an Epidemiologist?
You use this to measure a patients temperature
What is a thermometer?
What does BPM Stand For
Beats or Breaths per Minute
Tiny infectious agents that can only multiply when they are inside a host, the living cells of plants, animals, or bacteria.
What is a Virus?
You have trillions of these throughout your body and it's like a complex highway where messages travel.
What are nerves?
Name the two nervous systems
Central Nervous System, Peripheral Nervous System
Name the four lobes of the brain
frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal
A medical specialist in the anatomy, functions, and disorders of nerves and the nervous system.
Who is a Neurologist?
You can check this on your own by taking 2 fingers to certain arteries.
What is your Heart Beat/Rate or Pulse?
Why are these signs considered vital?
They can tell the state of your health and whether or not your body is functioning properly.
Single-celled organisms that do not rely on a host and can be fought with antibiotics.
What is a Bacteria?
Hypothesis has to have these 2 words in it.
What is If and then?
What two structures make up the central nervous system?
Brain & Spinal Cord
What is the occipital lobe primarily responsible for?
vision
A medical professional trained to pay close attention to vital signs and other medical clues to make quick, sometimes life-dependent, treatment decisions.
Who is a Nurse/Doctor?
Doctors will look at a patient's chest to count the breaths they take in a minute.
What is your Respiratory Rate?
What are the four vital signs?
Temperature
Respiratory Rate
Heart Rate/Pulse
Blood Pressure
Organisms such as yeasts or molds that reproduce quickly in moist, humid environments.
What is a Fungus?
This is changed by the person conducting an experiment.
What is an independent variable?
What are the two types of neurons responsible for takin in and responding to stimuli?
Name two functions of the frontal lobe
behavior, personality, decision making, voluntary muscle movements, emotions, memory, problem solving
A medical professional who specializes in eyes and sight.
Who is an Optometrist?
What device measures pulse and oxygen?
Pulse oximeter
What is the average temperature?
98.6
This bacterial infection can be spread by the bite of an infected tick
What is Lyme Disease?
The main thing you must look at when diagnosing a patient.
symptoms
The part of a neuron that helps signals move quickly
Myelin Sheath
What cortex is in the parietal lobe?
sensory cortex
A medical doctor who interprets medical images and scans to diagnose and treat diseases or injuries.
What is a Radiologist?
What are the names of the top and bottom number of blood pressure?
Systolic and Diastolic
What is considered a normal respiratory rate for adults?
12-18 bpm
The time between contact and onset of illness. For example, it might take 3-4 hours for the disease to start showing symptoms.
What is the Incubation Period?
Used as a comparison in experiments.
Control Group
Sketch a neuron and label the 6 major parts of a neuron.
cell body, dendrite, axon, nucleus, myelin sheath, axon terminal
The structure in the brain that controls homeostatic functions such as hunger, thirst, sleep patterns and body temperature.
Hypothalamus