Midterm 1

Question 1

mortality rate

Answer 1

the incidence of death in the population in a given period

Question 2

morbidity rate

Answer 2

number of people affected in relation to the total population in a given time period

Question 3

pathogenic

Answer 3

capable of causing disease

Question 4

virulent

Answer 4

extremely poisonous

Question 5

endemic

Answer 5

occurring frequently in a particular region or population

Question 6

epidemic

Answer 6

a sudden outbreak of infectious disease that spreads rapidly through the population, affecting a large portion of people

Question 7

reservoir

Answer 7

a place or population where an infectious agent lives and multiplies, and can infect others

Question 8

vector

Answer 8

an animal usually an insect or tick that transmits parasitic microorganisms and therefore the disease they cause from person to person or from infected animal to human beings

Question 9

host

Answer 9

an animal or plant in or upon which a parasite lives

Question 10

intermediate host

Answer 10

one in which the parasite passes its larval or asexual stage

Question 11

definitive host

Answer 11

one in which the parasite develops into its sexual stage

Question 12

enzootic

Answer 12

relating to or denoting a disease that regularly affects animals in a particular district or at a particular season.

Question 13

epizootic

Answer 13

relating to or denoting a disease that is temporarily prevalent and widespread in an animal population.

Question 14

nidus

Answer 14

a place in which bacteria have settled and multiplied because of particularly suitable conditions: a focus of infection

Question 15

zoonosis

Answer 15

an infectious disease of animals that can be transmitted to humans

Question 16

biological vector

Answer 16

an arthropod vector in which the disease causing organism multiplies or develops within the arthropod prior to becoming infective for a susceptible individual

Question 17

iatrogenic

Answer 17

describing a condition or disease that has resulted from treatment and/or the actions of health-care professionals

Question 18

formite

Answer 18

an inanimate object that can become contaminated with infectious agents, such as bacteria, viruses, or fungi, and spread disease to a new host

Question 19

anthropozonoosis

Answer 19

a disease that can be transmitted from an animal to a human, or vice versa

Question 20

“silent zone of disease”

Answer 20

A place where disease is circulating but is unrecognized because no humans are present