Chapter 6 Definitions Flashcards
Microscopic examination of tissue cells
Biopsy
Lowering of effective power, vitality, or essential quality to to a worsened kind or state; to pass from a higher to a lower type or condition.
Degeneration
Non infectious/ hereditary, environment, and a person’s lifestyle
Degenerative disease
Renew or restore
Regenerate
Diseases caused by health class
Lifestyle diseases
Hardening of the arteries
Arteriosclerosis
Force of blood on the inside walls of the main artery
Blood pressure
Abnormal cells growing wo control
Cancer
Not cancerous
Benign
Malignant
cancerous
Results when the pancreas does not produce adequate amounts of insulin.
Diabetes Miletus
Progressive condition In which the cells in the brain degenerate and the brain loses its ability to function.
Alzheimer’s disease
High blood pressure
Hypertension
Hereditary, the environment, and lifestyle, cause this
Non infectious disease
Buildup of fat deposits in the artery walls
Atherosclerosis