Illness
often starts with a tremor in one hand. Other symptoms are slow movement, stiffness, and loss of balance.
Parkinson's
inhaler
This body part filters your body's urine
What is the kidney?
a medicine that inhibits the growth of or destroys microorganisms.
Antibiotics
reaction to foreign substances by the immune system
Allergy
What do you call a medical condition where the flow of oxygen-rich blood to a section of heart muscle suddenly becomes blocked and the heart can’t get oxygen?
Heart attack
type of injection given into a vein (giving a drug or other substance through a needle or tube inserted into a vein)
Intravenous (IV)
This body part allows your body to absorb the nutrients in food
What is the small intestine?
A class of drug used to reduce moderate to severe pain
opioids
chronic condition characterized by high levels of sugar in the blood
Diabetes
What do you call a medical condition where the blood supply to part of your brain is interrupted or reduced, preventing brain tissue from getting oxygen and nutrients?
Stroke
A heart pacemaker is typically located here
What is the right atrium
What do you call a vessel that transports oxygen-rich blood cells and nutrients to cell tissue
Artery
transplantation is the transplantation of multipotent hematopoietic cells, usually derived from bone marrow, peripheral blood, or umbilical cord blood in order to replicate inside of a patient and to produce additional normal blood cells
hematopoietic stem cell transplant
an autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation of the joints, the tissue around the joints, as well as other organs in the body.
Arthritis
confusion or disorientation, shortness of breath, high heart rate, fever, or shivering, or feeling very cold, extreme pain or discomfort, and clammy or sweaty skin.
Sepsis
a type of medicine that reduces the amount of acid in your stomach.
Antacid
This body part connects two bones together
What is a joint?
the treatment of disease by the use of chemical substances
Chemotherapy
an illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts. It affects how one eats and sleeps, the way one feels about oneself, and the way one thinks about things.
Depression
What do you call a highly infectious disease that mainly affects your lungs, causing coughing, fatigue, fever, chills, and weight loss
Tuberculosis
a drug used to treat an allergy
A series of glands use the information carried by the nervous system to help regulate the body's processes.
Endocrine system
treatment of disease by activating or suppressing the immune system designed to elicit or amplify an immune response
immunotherapy
a disease caused by an abnormal growth of cells.
Cancer