Pathogens & Transmission
This single-celled pathogen lacks a nucleus and can be treated with antibiotics.
What is Bacteria?
The percentage of global deaths caused annually by Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs).
What is over 70%?
The large, thick-walled muscular blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood away from the heart.
What are Arteries?
The biological term for a non-cancerous tumor that stays localized and poses few health hazards.
What is a Benign Tumor?
The primary environmental carcinogen responsible for driving skin cancer mutations.
What is Ultraviolet (UV) Radiation?
Non-cellular genetic packages that hijack host cells to replicate, which antibiotics cannot kill.
What are Viruses?
The body's physiological balance system is broken down over time by NCDs.
What is Homeostasis?
The specific condition where fatty plaque deposits accumulate inside arterial walls.
What is Atherosclerosis?
The process by which cancerous cells invade vascular structures and spread to distant organs.
What is Metastasis (or Metastasizing)?
The most dangerous form of skin cancer is the one that spreads rapidly through the body.
What is Melanoma?
An inanimate object—such as a doorknob or countertop—that harbors and transmits pathogens.
What is a Fomite?
The tier of prevention focused on preventing disease onset through lifestyle choices like diet and exercise.
What is Primary Prevention?
Known as "The Silent Killer," this diagnostic condition is defined as a blood pressure of 130/80 mmHg or higher.
What is Hypertension?
The percentage of cancer mutations acquired during a person's life from environmental exposure and lifestyle behaviors
What is 90%+?
In the ABCDE mole screening guide, the letter "A" stands for this observation where two halves of a mole do not match.
What is Asymmetry?
Organisms like mosquitoes or ticks transmit pathogens from one host to another.
What are Vectors?
The tier of prevention that includes early screening tools like mammograms, colonoscopies, and blood pressure checks.
What is Secondary Prevention?
The peak arterial pressure measured during ventricular contraction, which is the top number in a blood pressure reading.
What is Systolic Pressure?
The leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, driven 80% of the time by smoking.
What is Lung Cancer?
In the ABCDE skin cancer checklist, "D" stands for Diameter, specifically warning against spots larger than this standard reference size.
What is 6 millimeters (or a pencil eraser)?
The single most effective hygiene practice to break the chain of disease transmission is to wash your hands for at least 20 seconds.
What is Handwashing (with soap and water)?
An epidemiological scale describing a global outbreak of disease spanning multiple countries or continents.
What is a Pandemic?
An acute cardiac arrhythmia characterized by an abnormally fast resting heart rate exceeding 100 beats per minute.
What is Tachycardia?
Recommended every 10 years starting at age 45 to screen for colorectal cancer.
What is a Colonoscopy?
In the ABCDE checklist, "E" stands for this term, meaning the mole is changing in size, shape, or color over time
What is Evolving?