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Pathogens
Infectious Diseases
Noninfectious Diseases
Doctors and Exams
Unit 1
100
A pathogen.
What are bacterium, viruses, or other microorganism that cause disease?
100
A disorder of structure or function in an organism that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location.
What is a disease?
100
A noninfectious disease.
What is a disease that is not caused by a virus or other living organism?
100
The branch of medicine designed to provide basic health care to all members of a family.
What is family practice or family medicine.
100
Using art to express emotions.
What is creative expression?
200
Very small things found everywhere that could be both living and non-living.
What are microorganisms?
200
A person or thing that takes an active role or produces a specified effect.
What is an agent?
200
Characteristics or behaviors that raise a person's chances of getting a noninfectious disease.
What are risk factors?
200
The two different types of care that an individual could receive from a doctor.
What are treatment and prevention.
200
A conflict where two or more people want the same thing but only one of them can have it.
What is a conflict over resources?
300
An organism that absorbs nutrients from its environment.
What is a fungus?
300
Three ways diseases can be spread.
What is touching or bodily contact, coughing or sneezing, and sharing food, drink, or other objects.
300
Four types of noninfectious diseases.
What are hereditary, nutritional and metabolic, immune system defects, and cancer?
300
The four vital signs.
What are body temperature, heart rate, breathing rate, and blood pressure.
300
Positive stress.
What is eustress?
400
The harmful substance that bacteria produce.
What are toxins?
400
The medicines that can prevent viral infections.
What are vaccines?
400
To make less severe.
What is the definition of alleviate?
400
A physician highly trained in a particular branch of medicine.
What is a specialist.
400
Conflict occurs, response to conflict, consequences of the response to the conflict, and attitudes and feelings are developed about the conflict.
What is the conflict cycle?
500
The two parts of a virus.
What is a protein coat and genetic material?
500
The cell in the immune system that consumes harmful microorganisms.
What are microphages?
500
The process by which the body converts the energy in food into energy the body can use.
What is the metabolism?
500
The four steps you should take before going to the emergency room.
What is make sure you are going for a good reason, call your regular doctor, take your medical information, and call the emergency room.
500
The 3 R's of stress management.
What are reframing, redirection, relaxation.