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The Body I
The Body II
Cells
Diseases
100
A tentative explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation.
What is a hypothesis?
100
the system of nerves and nerve centers in an animal or human, including the brain, spinal cord, nerves, and ganglia
What is the nervous system?
100
The systems of an organism that helps it perform the functions to allow the organisms to survive
What are the human body systems?
100
The smallest structural unit of an organism that is capable of independent functioning, consisting of one or more nuclei, cytoplasm, and various organelles, all surrounded by a semi permeable cell membrane.
What are cells?
100
An incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
What are diseases?
200
Data pertaining to or concerned with quality Data of or pertaining to the describing or measuring of quantity (Must be said in order)
What is qualitative data and quantitative data?
200
The system by which oxygen is taken into the body and an exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place; in mammals the system includes the nasal passages, pharynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs.
What is the respiratory system?
200
The regular throbbing of the arteries, caused by the successive contractions of the heart, esp. as may be felt at an artery, as at the wrist.
What is a pulse?
200
A theory that states the cell is the fundamental unit of structure and function in living things; all organisms are made up of one or more cells; all cells come from other cells
What is the cell theory?
200
A carrier is an person having a specific disease or virus who, though often immune to the disease or virus, may transmit the disease to others
What is a carrier?
300
A scientific test of the effectiveness and safety of a therapeutic agent (as a drug or vaccine) using consenting human subjects.
What is a clinical trial?
300
The bodily system consisting of the heart, blood vessels, and blood that circulates blood throughout the body, delivers nutrients and other essential materials to cells, and removes waste products. Also called cardiovascular system.
What is the circulatory system?
300
Any poison produced by an organism.
What is a toxin?
300
A differentiated structure within a cell, such as a mitochondrion, vacuole, or chloroplast, that performs a specific function. These act as "human organ systems".
What are organelles?
300
An insect or other organism that transmits a pathogenic fungus, virus, bacterium, non-human.
What is a vector?
400
The act or process of deriving logical conclusions from premises known or assumed to be true. The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.
What is an inference?
400
The system by which ingested food is acted upon by physical and chemical means to provide the body with absorbable nutrients and to excrete waste products
What is the digestive system?
400
The control of the kind and rate of cellular processes by controlling the activity of individual genes; regulate: to fix the rate of (body temperature, digestion, respiration…)
What is regulation or regulate?
400
Cell-forming tissues that protects the body from microbes and other foreign substances, destroys infected and malignant cells and removes cellular debris: the system includes the thymus, spleen, lymph nodes and lymph tissue, stem cells, white blood cells, antibodies and lymphokines
What is the immune system?
400
The person who studies the branch of medicine that deals with the study of the causes, distribution, and control of disease in populations.
What is an epidemiologist?
500
A set of principles of right conduct (is what you are doing right or wrong? should you or shouldn’t you?).
What are ethics
500
The system of organs that regulates the amount of water in the body and filters and eliminates from the blood the wastes produced by metabolism. The principal organs of the excretory system are the kidneys, ureters, urethra, and urinary bladder.
What is the excretory or urinary system?
500
Venom is injected into the body where poison is consumed internally?
What is the difference between venom and poison?
500
The act or process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing. Also called ventilation; the act or process by which an organism without lungs, such as a fish or plant, exchanges gases with its environment; the use of O2 to breakdown food into energy.
What is respiration?
500
A strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease.
What is a quarantine?