Health & Sickness
What are the three dimensions of health?
Biological/physical, Social and Psychological
According to Leavell and Clark, what are the two periods illness is divided in?
Pre pathogenic period / Pathogenic period
Immune cells can also be called:
White blood cells
Demonstrate the standard anatomical position.
(standing up, palms facing forward, hands away from the body, feet together)
What are the 4 types of tissues in the body?
Epithelial, connective, muscle, nervous
'Decreased physical condition that can be an obstacle to enjoy a complete balanced health' is the definition of____________.
Sickness/Illness/Disease
Rehabilitation is part of which prevention level?
Tertiary prevention
Acquired / Specific immunity depend on which type of cells?
Lymphocytes (T cells and B cells)
What organ does the cranial cavity contains?
Brain
Name one type of cell found in nervous tissue:
Neurons or neuroglia
Which are the 3 components that make up the ecological triad?
Host, agent, environment
Specific protection is part of which prevention level?
Primary prevention
Phagocytes, are part of ________ immunity.
Innate / Non specific
This body plane runs vertically through the body, dividing it in right / left portions.
Sagital plane
Type of connective tissue that has cells specialized in accumulating fat and in providing a highly effective energy reserve:
Adipose Tissue
According to the general classification of illness: viral, bacterial and fungal infections are examples of what type of disease?
Infectious disease
What is the difference between a sign and a symptom?
A symptom is subjective and only perceived by the sick person (not observable).
A sign is objective and can be observed.
What do plasma B cells produce?
Antibodies
What are the two major cavities in the body called?
Type of muscle tissue that is attached to bones and is voluntary:
Skeletal muscle
According to the general classification of illness, what are the four types of illness?
Profesional, Degenerative, Lack, Infectious
What events take place during the advanced illness stage of the pathogenic period?
Signs and symptoms are fully manifested, disease is treated with medicines and/or medical interventions.
Type of T cell that activates by binding to the antigen in the surface of an antigen presenting cell (like a macrophage), and produce cytokines that activate other immune cells.
Helper T cell
The ventral cavity is subdivided in these three cavities:
Thoracic, abdominal, pelvic
A 'stratified squamous' epithelial tissue, has how many cell layers and what cell shape?
multiple layers / flat cell shape