Disease Flashcards
(19 cards)
Antibiotics?
-medicine which helps cure infections
Die out?
-to become less common, then disappear
Digest?
-to change food to a form the body can use
Circulate?
-to move around continuously
Germ?
-a small living thing that causes disease
Tuberculosis?
-a serious infectious disease that affects the lung
Virus?
-an infectious living that causes disease or illness
Extinct?
-no longer existing
Toxin?
-a poisonous substance
Traced back to?
-to find the origin of something
Peak?
-the time when something is at its highest
Concern?
-to be about a particular subject
Dam?
-a wall built across a river to stop the water flowing
outbreak?
-the start or duften appearance of disease or war
Incidence?
-the number of times something happens
Reinforce?
-to do something to make an opinion, statement, etc. stronger or to support it
Ache?
-to have continuous pain in one part of your body
Come down with?
-to become ill
Disorder?
-an illness that causes a part of the body to stop working normally
