Disease
Disease-causing agents such as bacteria and viruses.
What are pathogens?
pg. 601
The process that causes the area to become red and swollen.
What is inflammation?
pg. 615
The resistance to specific pathogens.
What is immunity?
pg. 617
A noninfectious disease caused by the sun's UV rays, damaging the skin cells.
What is skin cancer?
pg. 622
Eating healthy food consistently.
What is a diet?
pg. 622
The process in which a food is heated to a temperature that kills most harmful bacteria.
What is pasteurization?
pg. 603
A substance that causes an immune response.
What are antigens?
pg 616
When your body produces antigens in response to an antigen.
What is active immunity?
pg. 617
Most cases of this type of cancer are related to smoking or working in poor air quality.
What is lung cancer?
pg. 622
Medicines that stop the growth and reproduction of bacteria.
What are antibiotics?
pg. 624
Diseases caused by pathogens that can be transmitted from one person to another.
What are infectious diseases?
pg. 605
Attaches to an antigen and makes it useless.
What are antibodies?
pg. 616
When a weakened or dead pathogen is placed in the body, usually by injection or by mouth.
What are vaccinations?
pg. 617
For this process, employees must wash their hands regularly.
What is food preparation?
pg. 623
A type of treatment that kills the cells that are reproducing uncontrollably.
What is cemotherapy?
pg 624
A disease-carrying organism that does not develop the disease.
What is a vector?
pg. 605
Form in the one marrow and mature in the thymus gland.
What are T cells?
pg. 616
The introduction of antibodies that were produced outside the body.
What is passive immunity?
pg. 617
This process includes modern landfills and sewer systems to keep our streets and homes clean.
What is waste management?
pg. 623
Before 1978, this harmful chemical was used in many homes for house walls or ceilings, and when it dried, we breathed it in, causing lung cancer.
What is lead?
pg 624
A disease that can not pass from person to person.
What is a noninfectious disease?
pg. 606
An overly sensitive immune response to common antigens.
What are allergies?
pg 616
An overly sensitive immune response to common antigens.
What is an allergy?
pg, 616
Disease has decreased over time because of how people are cleaning in schools, hospitals, and public areas.
What is health and sanitation?
pg. 623
Sunscreen and vitamins both have one thing in common.
What products have healthy chemicals?
pg 624