This is any foreign substance that, when introduced into the body, is recognized as “non-self” and activates the immune system.
What is an Antigen?
100
This is a disease-causing microorganism that grows in or on the body, damaging tissue, inducing inflammation, and triggering familiar signs and symptoms associated with particular infections.
What is a Pathogen?
100
This refers to the process of cell division and reproduction.
What is Mitosis?
100
Chapter 17 is about this group medications used in the treatment of infections; includes antibiotics, antifungals, and antivirals.
What are Anti-Infective Drugs?
200
In the Cancer Biology 101 video Ms. Tisty stated that cancer ignores these signals.
What are Death Signals?
200
This is a term relating to or denoting any disease or condition that arises spontaneously or for which the cause is unknown.
What is Idiopathic?
200
This is the name for hospital-acquired, infections that are acquired in a health care facility.
What are Nosocomial?
200
Many antineoplastic agents also possess these properties, because they may decrease the production of white blood cells and antibodies and reduce the inflammatory reaction.
What are Immunosuppressive Properties?
200
An example of an organism resistant to most antibiotics is methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus which is better known as this.
What is MRSA?
300
Migratory aquatic birds are the original source of all of these.
What are Flu Strains?
300
This constricts blood vessels to increase blood pressure, relaxes smooth muscles in the lungs to reduce wheezing and improve breathing.
What is Epinephrine?
300
Everyone should do this to control the spread of influenza, cold, tuberculosis, and other respiratory diseases.
What is practice respiratory etiquette and hand-washing?
300
These cancer therapies are drugs or other substances that block the growth and spread of cancer by interfering with specific molecules involved in tumor growth and progression.
What are Targeted Therapies?
300
The CDC currently recommends this to prevent 17 vaccine- preventable diseases that occur in infants, children, adolescents, or adults.
What is Routine Vaccination?
400
In 1945 Fleming, Chain and Florey received the Nobel prize for their work with this antibiotic.
What is Penicillin?
400
This occurs when individuals develop antibodies called autoantibodies to their own tissues or self antigens.
What is Autoimmunity?
400
This is the study of the transmission, occurrence, distribution, and control of disease.
What is Epidemiology?
400
Health care practitioners caring for patients receiving these must observe special precautions to prevent unnecessary radiation exposure.
What are Radioactive Isotopes?
400
This type of antibiotic is effective against a large variety of organisms.
What is a Broad Spectrum Antibiotic?
500
Polio is not caused by a bacterium but by this.
What is a Virus?
500
This is also know as adaptive immunity, and responds to antigens of specific pathogens.
What is Specific Immunity?
500
These diseases are certain infectious diseases that physicians must report to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
What are Notifiable Diseases? or Reportable?
500
The FDA has approved two vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, that protect against infection by the two types of this virus that cause approximately 70 percent of all cases of cervical cancer worldwide.
What is the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)?
500
This is structurally unrelated to other available antibiotics and is used in the treatment of potentially life-threatening infections caused by susceptible organisms. It is the drug of choice for MRSA.