APPH Exam #1 (BOARD CONTENT) Flashcards
(14 cards)
Ease
Our body is in a normal health in homeostasis
Disease
The body is outside of homeostasis
Five F’s To Transmit Disease
1) food
2) flies (insects ,bugs) –> vomits on food, and uses a tube
3) finger
4) fomite –> inanimate object
5) feces
Idiopathic
Unknown cause to a condition and it is self-limiting (will clear eventually)
Headaches
Affect the most people on this planet
- Cephalgia
- Any type of pain in the head
Sprain
Damage to ligaments (connect bone)
Strain
Damage to tendons (both have a t in it)
Mastication
Chewing food
Deglutition
Sallowing food
Micturate
Process of urinating
Proton Pump Inhibitor
Medication that causes a reduction of stomach acid
Nonsteroidol Antiinflamatory Drug
Drugs that reduce pain, EX: ibuprofen
3 Salivary Glands
1) Sublingual
2) Parotid
3) Submandibular
Dissociation
HCl –> H+ + Cl-