Key Vocabulary
A condition that impairs normal functioning and has distinguishing signs and symptoms.
What is a disease?
Physical inactivity is a risk factor
What is Type 2 Diabetes?
A disease that can be passed from one person to another
What is a communicable disease?
A line of defense that uses the eyes, skin, stomach, saliva, and mucus
What is line 1 defense?
A substance that can cause cancer
What is a carcinogen?
The tiny organisms that cause communicable diseases
What is a Pathogen?
Is insulin dependent
What is Type 1 Diabetes?
High fiving, shaking hands, and kissing are all ways a disease is spread with _______ contact
What is direct contact?
A line 1 defense that is created in your mouth
What is saliva?
A mass of abnormal cells
What is a tumar?
An abnormal immune reaction to an ordinarily harmless substance
What is an allergy?
Genetics is a risk factor
What is Type 1 Diabetes?
Inhaling droplets from coughs/sneezes, and sharing water bottles are forms of spreading diseases through _____ contact
What is indirect contact?
Pathogens multiply, body temp rises to kill pathogens
What is fever?
A basically harmless tumor that stays in one place
What is a benign tumor?
A natural protein that recognizes foreign intruders
What is antibodies?
A condition in which the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces.
What is Type 2 Diabetes?
An organism that transmits disease
What is a vector?
Body's response to disease with swelling, pain, and heat
What is inflammation?
A period during which cancer signs and symptoms disappear
Remission
Organism that lives within a host cell
What is a virus?
Glucose needs _____, produced by the pancreas to transport it from blood into cells.
What is insulin?
Communicable diseases are spread in __ ways
Is it spread in 4 ways?
Carries fluid known as lymph produced in lymph nodes
What is the lymphatic system?
5 to 10% of cancers are a result of this
What is heredity?