Infection
Introduction to Patho
Electroytes and Acid Base Balance
Nervous System
Blood and Lymphatic
100
Another name for spherical shaped bacteria?
What is coccus?
100
Primary Agency in tracking disease and illness
What is the CDC?
100
Electroyte that can disrupt the conduction of the heart and lead to sudden death
What is K+?
100
Outer layer of the meninges
What is Dura Mater?
100
Another name for red blood cells
What are erythrocytes?
200
Period of time between entrance of pathogenic microorganism into the body to the apperance of disease symptoms?
What is the incubation period?
200
Process of disease?
What is pathogenesis?
200
Defined as a 2% decrease in body weight
What is a moderate fluid deficit?
200
Central portion of the brain that contains the thalamus and the hypothalamus
What is the Diencephalon?
200
Another name for platelets
What are thrombocytes?
300
Plantlike organisms that are found on food, plants, animals, and humans?
What is fungi?
300
Unlike traditional medicine, the goal is to advance and relieve suffering and advance human welfare it but does not guarantee good health.
What is modern medicine?
300
Accumulation and swelling due to excess fluid
What is edema?
300
The outer shell of the cerebral hemispheres that is considered the most advanced part of the brain
What is the cerebral cortex?
300
Gas transporting protein molecule that makes up a red blood cell
What is hemoglobin?
400
Rod shaped bacteria
What is bacillus?
400
Eventual outcome of disease
What is the prognosis?
400
May cause symptoms of fatigue, low blood pressure, mental confusion and increase hematocrit
What is dehydration?
400
Lobe of the brain that controls the production and articulation of speech
What is the frontal lobe?
400
Red blood cells white blood cells, platelets, and plasma
What are the components of blood?
500
Unique characteristics: unicellular and do not require living things to survice
What is bacteria?
500
Guidelines for proper disposal of dangerous items such as needles, tissues, and waste.
What are universal precautions?
500
Calcium, potassium, magnesium, bicarbonate, sodium, chloride and phosphate.
What are electroytes?
500
Irreversible loss of cerebral hemisphere, brainstem and cerebellum function
What is brain death?
500
Common condition of the red blood cells, can be caused by poor dietary intake or it can be drug induced.
What is anemia?
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