Medical Terms 1
An examination conducted on a dead body to determine the cause of death.
What is an autopsy?
A substance made by the body as an immune response that attacks and destroys foreign agents.
What is an antibody?
Set apart, isolated, or divided.
What is segregated?
The focal idea or concept of a text.
What is the main or central idea?
An antibiotic drug used to treat infections and diseases.
What is penicillin?
A chronic medical condition that affects how the body metabolizes sugar (glucose).
What is type II diabetes?
Something that is absolutely necessary.
What is essential?
A brief, neutral summary of a text.
What is an objective summary?
A field of study that looks at the moral basis of human behavior and attempts to determine the best course of action.
What are ethics?
A person's standard of behavior or beliefs.
What are morals?
Getting someone to join an organization or cause.
Information from a text that supports a claim or argument.
What is textual evidence?
A person's freedom and ability to make his or her own decisions.
What is autonomy?
A situation in which one person makes decisions for another person and benefits from it.
What is a conflict of interest?
Seasonal movement from one region to another.
What is migration?
Having something to do with the matter being considered.
What is relevant?
Inflammation of the liver caused mainly by viruses.
What is hepatitis?
Awarding someone money because of a loss, injury, or suffering.
What is compensation?
Another word for offspring.
What is a descendant?
Details that support, clarify, or explain the main idea of a paragraph or essay.
What are supporting details?