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28 Cards in this Set
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Century |
a period of one hundred years |
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Epidemic |
a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. |
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Population |
all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country. |
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Disease |
a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury. |
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Life Expectancy |
the average period that a person may expect to live. |
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Germs |
a microorganism, especially one which causes disease. |
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Mysterious |
difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify. |
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Infected |
affected with a disease-causing organism. |
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Predictable |
behaving or occurring in a way that is expected. |
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Explanation |
expand on what one has said in order to make one's meaning clear. |
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Ancient |
belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence. |
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Englishman |
a male native or inhabitant of England, or a man of English descent. |
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Dutchman |
a native or inhabitant of the Netherlands, or a person of Dutch descent. |
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Microbes |
a microorganism, especially a bacterium causing disease or fermentation. |
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Microscope |
an optical instrument used for viewing very small objects, such as mineral samples or animal or plant cells, typically magnified several hundred times. |
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Invaded |
An armed force who enters a country or region to occupy it. |
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Antibiotics |
a medicine (such as penicillin or its derivatives) that inhibits the growth of or destroys microorganisms. |
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Experiments |
a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis or demonstrate a known fact. |
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Evidence |
the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid. |
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Chemist |
an expert in chemistry; a person engaged in chemical research or experiments. |
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Scientists |
a person who is studying or has expert knowledge of one or more of the natural or physical sciences. |
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Bacterium |
a member of a large group of unicellular microorganisms that have cell walls but lack organelles and an organized nucleus, including some which can cause disease. |
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Pasteurization |
The partial sterilization of a product, such as milk or wine, to make it safe for consumption and improve its keeping quality. |
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Vaccine |
a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease. |
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Surgeon |
a medical practitioner qualified to practice surgery. |
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Carbolic Acid |
phenol, especially when used as a disinfectant. |
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Contaminated |
having been made impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance. |
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Mystified |
To be utterly bewildered or perplexed |
