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Diseases
100
This is an eating disorder in which a person starves himself or herself and has a weight of 15% or more below normal.
What is Anorexia nervosa?
100
This is the condition of your body, mind, emotions, and relationships. It involves not only the absence of disease but also a feeling of wellness.
What is health?
100
It is the use of physical force to harm people or property?
What is violence?
100
These types of drugs are known as nonprescription drugs, are medicines that a person can get without a physician's written order.
What is over-the-counter (OTC) drugs?
100
This is a condition caused by a blocked or broken blood vessel in the brain. It may be referred to as a "brain attack."
What is a stroke?
200
This is an eating disorder in which a person eats a great deal of food in a short period and then rids the body of the food.
What is Bulimia nervosa?
200
This is an action that threatens health; increases the likelihood of illness, injury, and premature death; and may harm the quality of the environment.
What is risk behavior?
200
Unwanted sexual behavior that can lead to sexual assault or rape.
What is sexual harassment?
200
This is an odorless, colorless, and poisonous gas found in tobacco smoke. This gas is also released by cars & can kill you. Never leave a car turned on in an enclosed area, such as a garage.
What is carbon monoxide?
200
This is known as the "kissing disease." It is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus and includes symptoms of extreme fatigue, fever, swollen lymph nodes, loss of appetite, headaches, and more.
What is mononucleosis?
300
This is a bacterium found in raw or under-cooked eggs or poultry, pet iguanas, turtles, or lizards. The symptoms produced by these bacteria include stomach pain, diarrhea, nausea, chills, and fever up to four days after eating contaminated food.
What is Salmonella?
300
The passing of characteristics from biological parents to their children. This determines a person's hair color, eye color, height, and body shape.
What is heredity?
300
This is a person who attempts to hurt or frighten people whom he or she considers helpless.
What is a bully?
300
This is the percentage of alcohol in a person's blood when he or she drinks alcohol.It is influenced by the person's age, weight, amount of alcohol consumed, and length of time since last drink.
What is blood alcohol concentration (BAC)?
300
This sexually transmitted infection is caused by a virus that destroys a person's immune system by destroying the person's helper T-cells.
What is human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)?
400
These are harmful fats found in hydrogenated, or partially solidified, oils such as margarine and shortening.
What is trans fat?
400
This refers to the influence your peers use to encourage you to behave in certain ways. It can be positive or negative.
What is peer pressure?
400
This is a violent, destructive storm with high-speed winds that whirl in a funnel shaped dark cloud. The winds of this natural phenomena are measured using the Fujita scale.
What is a tornado?
400
This is a family of drugs that treat infections caused by bacteria. Examples of these drugs include, Azithromycin, Penicillin, and Cipro.
What is antibiotics?
400
This is a virus that may cause cervical cancer in women. This virus may also cause genital warts. However, not all strains of the virus cause cancer or warts. In some cases, the virus disapears on its own.
What is Human Papillomavirus (HPV)?
500
This is a process by which a food or liquid is heated to kill harmful organisms?
What is Pasteurization?
500
Beliefs about what is right and wrong, as well as beliefs about what is most important.
What is ethics?
500
This is a first aid technique used to restore heartbeat and breathing to a person who is unconscious, not breathing, and has no heartbeat.
What is cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)?
500
This is a family of drugs that relieve the symptoms of allergies. Examples include Claritin, Zyrtec, Allegra, and Benadryl.
What is antihistamine?
500
These types of white blood cells make up the third line of defense against foreign invaders. Examples of these are the B and T cells.
What is lymphocyte?