Disease
A disease that is not passed from 1 person to another
What is a noninfectious disease?
Causes of noninfectious diseases (At least 2)
What is genetics, the environment, or a person's lifestyle?
traits or habits that increase your chances of getting a disease
What are risk factors?
The two non-living pathogens
Scurvy, obesity, and anorexia nervosa are all examples of this disease
Abnormalities that are obvious at birth or early in infancy
What are birth defects?
A disease that is common and contained to a particular region or area
What is endemic.
pain, swelling, and stiffness of joints
What is arthritis?
masses of cells
What is a tumor?
Disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans, it affect both the animal and human (not the same as vectors
The two types of barriers in the body's first line of defence (generally speaking)
What are physical and chemical barriers?
Brain loses its ability to function (often related to loss of memory)
What is Alzheimers disease?
the force of blood on the inside walls of main arteries
What is blood pressure?
type of diabetes that is insulin dependent
What is Type 1?
The scientist whose work laid the foundation for the germ theory of disease and ended belief in spontaneous generation
Who is Louis Pasteur?
Disease that reduces production of insulin
What is diabetes?
disease or condition inherited through a person's genes
What is a genetic disease?
What is muscular dystrophy?
The flask used in Louis Pasteur's experiment to disprove the theory of spontaneous generation.
What is the swan neck flask?
The spread of a disease in a specific area (such as a nation), over multiple communities
What is an epidemic?
methods of reducing instances of non-infectious disease (3 answers)
What is public education, legislation, access to health care?
abnormal cells growing without control
What is cancer?
Also known as community immunity, is a concept in epidemiology that describes a situation where a large portion of a population becomes immune to a particular infectious disease, either through vaccination or previous infections, making it difficult for the disease to spread within that population.
What is herd immunity?
the most severe type of arthritis where the immune system attacks tissues surrounding joints
What is Rheumatoid Arthritis?
The third line of defence is called the...
What is the lymphatic system or adaptive immune system?