Non Comm Vocab
What the difference between communicable and noncommunicable diseases?
Communicable can be transferred through pathogens when noncommunicable cannot
abnormal cells
What type of diabetes usually happens with poor lifestyle choices
Type 2
What kind of surgery involves a doctor going in and creating a new path for blood to flow?
Bypass Surgery
What are five risk factors that you can control?
lack of exercise, poor nutrition, overuse of alcohol, tabacco use, exposure to air pollution
What word means: removal of live tissue from the body to be sent off to be tested?
Biopsy
What is the process of cancer spreading called?
Metasize
What organ produces insulin
pancreas
What does it mean if someone has abnormally high blood pressure? They are _____________
hypertensive
Is increased age controllable or uncontrollable?
controllable
What is the doctor giving you when they give you a report of your disease/illness?
Diagnosis
What is a non-cancerous tumor called?
Benign
. What type of diabetes is an autoimmune disease?
Type 1
What is a test that measures the electrical activity of your heart?
ECG
Which are NOT controllable factor?
age, family history
What is a condition that is present at birth?
congenital
What is a cancerous tumor called?
Malignant
What is the name of the sugar that carbohydrates turn into the bloodstream?
Glucose
What is the medical term for a tube called that is place to support healing in a blood vessel?
Stent
What is a SMART goal?
What is an example?
S-specific
M-Measurable
A-Attainable-
R-Relevant
T-Timely
Examples may vary
What does autoimmune mean?
What does the root word auto mean?
The body is attacking itself?
Root word- oneself
What is the correct name for a doctor that works with cancer patients?
Oncologist
What is the leading cause of death in the US?
Heart Disease
What the overload principle In your own words?
Doing something even when. you get tired, answers vary