Health and Disease
Mention the three dimensions of health:
Mental, Physical and Social
Model that shows how a disease progresses without treatment:
NHD
Disease-causing microbe:
Pathogen
epithelial, connective, muscle and nervous
Name the three layers of skin:
Epidermis, dermis and hypodermis
States that health is not merely the absence of disease:
World Health Organization
Meaning of pathology:
Line of defense that prevents pathogens from entering the body:
First line of defense: nonspecific external defense.
Name of the most abundant tissue in the body:
Connective
The hypodermis is mainly composed of:
Adipose tissue
Characteristic that increases the likelihood to have a disease:
Risk factor
Stage of the NHD where the onset of symptoms occurs:
Line of defense used for broad internal defense:
Second line of defense: nonspecific internal defense
Name of the two cells that compose the nervous tissue:
Neurons and Glial cells
Vitamin synthesized by the body only in the presence of UV light:
Vitamin D
Name of the model used to explain the cause of an infectious disease:
Epidemiological triangle
First level of prevention
The adaptive immunity respond works basically through the relationship between ________ and _______.
Antigen-antibody
Type of muscle tissue that is under voluntary control:
Name of the cells that produce the pigment of skin, hair and eyes.
Melanocytes
Give an example of a degenerative disease and one professional disease.
Stage of the NHD where you are already sick but you don't know it yet:
Stage of "subclinical disease"
Lysozyme
Anatomical plane that divides the body into left and right halves:
Sagittal plane
Integumentary system disorder where melanin production is deficient due to the absence of the enzyme that makes it:
Albinism