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A small, battery-powered device that stimulates the heart to contract.
The blood cells whose primary job is to defend the body against disease.
What are white blood cells?
A change that a person notices in his or her body or mind and that is caused by a disease or disorder.
What is symptom?
A disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth
What is cancer?
A test to detect cardiovascular disease.
What is a EKG?
Your body’s ability to destroy pathogens that it has previously encountered.
What is immunity?
A disease that can be spread from person to person, insect to person, animal to person, etc.
What is a communicable disease?
A reaction to injury or infection that is characterized by pain, redness, and swelling.
What is inflammation?
A abnormal, but usually a harmless cell mass.
What is a benign tumor?
A disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth.
What is Cancer?
A condition in which bacteria can no longer be killed by a particular antibiotic.
What is antibiotic resistance?
Your body’s ability to destroy pathogens that it has previously encountered.
What is immunity?
A mass of cells that invades and destroys healthy tissue
What is a malignant tumor?
A form of cancer that affects the tissues that produce blood.
What is Leukemia?
A sudden attack of weakness or paralysis that occurs when blood flow to an area of the brain is interrupted.
What is a stroke
A tiny, single-celled organisms, some of which can cause disease.
What is a bacteria?
A disease that is caused partly by unhealthy behaviors and partly by other factors.
What is a lifestyle disease?
A substance that is usually prepared from killed or weakened pathogens or from genetic material and that is introduced into a body to produce immunity.
What is a vaccine
A cancer causing agent found in building materials
What is Asbestos?
Arteries that cover the heart.
What are Coronary arteries?
One device used to detect what cardiovascular diseases.
What is an EKG?
A mass of cells that invades and destroys healthy tissue.
What is a malignant tumor?
Cause of cancer and also a risk factor for developing cardiovascular diseases.
What is Smoking?
A type of cardiovascular disease - condition in which there is a higher than normal amount of stress on the walls of the blood vessels.
What is High blood pressure
When a doctor inserts a tube with a balloon at the tip into a blood vessel in the patient’s leg and the tube is guided through vessels into blocked artery and then inflated.
What is the procedure is called an angioplasty?