Cancer
A disease characterized by the rapid and uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells.
What is cancer?
Define diabetes
What is a serious condition characterized by high levels of glucose in the blood?
Define allergen.
Define Communicable disease.
What is a disease that can be passed from one person to another person, animal, or object?
First line of defense.
What are eyes, skin, stomach, saliva, and mucus.
Define carcinogen
What is a substance that causes cancer?
Immune system destroys insulin producing cells in the pancreas.
What is Type- 1 diabetes?
Name something that can start a allergic reaction.
What is airborne allergens, insect stings, medications, and latex?
The tiny organisms that cause Communicable disease.
What is a pathogen?
Second line of defense.
What is the immune system?
What is basically harmless, stationary
A condition in which the body cannot effectively use the insulin produced by the pancreas.
What is Type- 2 diabetes?
Ways to prevent allergies.
What is taking injections, and taking medication?
Name the major pathogens.
What are bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites?
Dangerous, meta sizes and spreads
What is a malignant tumor?
List 2 complications of having diabetes.
What is kidney disease, eye damage, and nerve damage in limbs?
The most common Type- of allergy.
List the ways pathogens are spread.
What is direct contact, indirect contact, contact with a vector, and other contacts?
List 3 risk factors.
What is smoking, sun tanning, lack of exercise, unhealthy eating, and alcohol consumption?
One way to prevent Type- 2 diabetes.
What is consuming a healthy diet, reducing sugary fruits, exercising regularly, reducing stress, and avoiding tobacco?
List the steps of a allergic reaction.
What is contact is made with allergen, histamine is released, causes swelling, immune system triggers a non specific response by releasing antibodies that release histamine.
Give an example(s) of a bacteria.
What is pinkeye, whooping cough, strep throat, tuberculosis, and food borne?