Vocabulary
This term describes a series of developmental stages from birth through adulthood and death
What is the Human Life Cycle?
Medications that target and kill bacteria.
What are Antibiotics?
True or false: Most bacteria are harmful to the body.
False. Most are not harmful.
True or False: Some children reach developmental milestones earlier or later than others.
What is True?
Bacteria, viruses, fungi, and phagocytes are all examples of pathogens.
False. Phagocytes are immune cells, not pathogens.
This is an episode of emotional upset that may involve yelling, crying, or kicking.
What is a Temper Tantrum?
Treatment that uses medications to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors.
What is Chemotherapy?
Viruses do not grow or reproduce independently, have no metabolism, and do not use energy.
What is All of the above?
Preschoolers develop this type of motor skill when learning to draw, dress, or feed themselves.
What are Fine-motor skills?
A benign tumor is not cancerous.
True.
This long-term condition involves weak, brittle bones prone to fractures.
What is Osteoporosis?
This autoimmune disease causes the immune system to attack the joints.
What is Rheumatoid Arthritis?
A fungal infection is also known as this.
What is Mycosis?
Complex, long-term disabilities that appear before adulthood and affect physical and/or intellectual development.
What are Developmental Disabilities?
During the convalescent stage, symptoms gradually worsen.
False. They improve during convalescence.
This imaging test uses X-rays to detect breast cancer.
What is a Mammogram?
This disease occurs in unexpectedly large numbers in a specific area.
What is an Endemic?
Parasitic worms are this type of organism.
What is Multicellular?
This refers to an episode of emotional upset that may include crying or biting.
What is a Temper Tantrum?
Veins are large, muscular blood vessels that carry blood from the heart to capillaries.
False. Arteries do that; veins carry blood back to the heart.
This refers to self-directing freedom.
What is Autonomy?
This happens in females when egg production stops and estrogen levels drop.
What is Menopause?
Malignant tumors can do this — meaning they spread to other parts of the body.
What is Metastasize?
This disease affects bone density and leads to fractures.
What is Osteoporosis?
Some diseases are spread by direct or indirect transmission.
What is True?