disease vocab for the quiz on monday Flashcards
(28 cards)
A personal feeling or belief
Attitude
The removal of a sample of tissue of a person for examination
Biopsy
Behaviors and habits that help determine a person’s level of health
Lifestyle factors
A way of life that involves little physical activity
Sedentary Lifestyle
A disease that can not be spread from person to person
Non-communicable
A disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body
Cancer
When people make unhealthy choices, they increase their risk of disease
Lifestyle Disease
Taking steps to avoid something
Prevention
A disease that can be spread to a person from another person, an animal, or an object
Communicable
The chance that something harmful may happen to your health and wellness
Risk
The basic units of heredity
Genes
Germs that cause diseases
Pathogens
Various methods for communicating information
Media
The collected beliefs, customs, behaviors of a group
Culture
A preparation of dead or weakened pathogens that is introduced into the body to cause an immune response
Vaccines
Any condition that interferes with the proper functioning of the body or mind
Disease
Diseases that are present either continuously or off and on over a long time
Chronic
When one risk factor adds to another to increase danger
Cumulative risk
Diseases that cause further breakdown in body cells, tissues, and organs as the progress
Degenerative
The conscious, active choice not to participate in high-risk behaviors
Abstinence
Threadlike structures that carry genes.
Chromosomes
The passing of traits from parents to their biological children
Heredity
A group of abnormal cells that form a mass
Tumor
A condition that happens when pathogens enter the body
Infection
