Disease
What is an organism that causes disease?.
Pathogen.
What are the 2 ways to classify infectious diseases?
Communicable and Noncommunicable
What is the KEY COMPONENT to the immune system?
What is produced in the nose and mouth to protect the body from foreign invaders?
Mucus
What is the period where pathogens develop without showing symptoms or signs?
When the immune system attacks the body is called
Autoimmune Diseases
What are the 3 different bacteria shapes?
Cocci, Bacilli, and Spirilla
What is the chemical signal produced when foreign substances are detected in the body?
Histamine
What is produced on the skin to hinder the growth of many pathogenic bacteria?
Sebum
When a disease spreads rapidly among a population is called?
Epidemic
Congenital Diseases
What are the small DNA circles that can exchange and often contain genes for resistance to antibiotics?
Plasmids.
What type of WBC (White Kool Aid Cell) roams your body engulfing and disposing of bacteria, viruses, and cellular debris?
Phagocytes
What enzyme do tears contain that kill bacteria?
Lysozymes
A person who displays no symptoms of a disease but can spread the disease is called?
A carrier
Diseases the cause tissues and organs to slowly lose their ability to function are called?
Degenerative Diseases
What bacteria is classified as "self feeding"?
Autotrophic
What type of WBC produces ANTIBODIES?
Lymphocytes
What burns off pathogen growth?
A Fever
What does AIDS stand for?
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Diseases cause by malfunctions of the immune system are called?
Immunological Diseases
A bacterium that can live without oxygen is called?
Anaerobic
What are allergy meds also called?
Anti-Histamines
What is it called when enough people get a disease/recover from it that the disease then will not infect enough new victims to sustain itself?
Herd Immunity