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28 Cards in this Set
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Defect |
Congenital or absence of a body part of organ. |
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Disability |
Inability to function normally due to a disease or defect. |
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Disease |
A dysfuntion of organ/s in the body causes by microbe (acute) or other causes (chronic) and not a direct result of physical injury. |
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Clinical disease |
A disease with signs and symptoms |
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Sign |
Objective evidence of disease |
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Sypmtoms |
Subjective evidence of disease |
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Non clinical disease |
A disease with no signs and symptoms |
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Pre clinica |
No signs, symptoms and no antibodies |
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Sub clinical |
No signs, symptoms but with antibodies |
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Persistent/chronic/latent |
With signs, symptoms and multiplication of microbes |
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Illness |
Unhealthy condition of the body and mind |
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Antibodies/immunoglobulins |
Proteins from the immune system which kills microbes |
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Antigend |
Any substance which when introduced in the body stimulate the immune system to produce antibodies. |
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Endemic |
Habitual presence of a disease within a given area |
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Epidemic |
Occurence in a community or region of a single disease or illness clearly in excess of normal expectancy derbies from a propagated source. |
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Pandemic |
World wide epidemic |
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Sporadic |
Occuring in irregula intervals in few places |
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Outbreak |
The sudden of violent start of something unwelcome like disease or war |
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Immunity |
Ability to resist infection by the action of antibodies or cells |
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Susceptibility |
To be harmed by a microbe or condition. |
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Kposis' Sarcoma |
AIDS ➡ ❔❔❔ |
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Tolerance |
The ability to ensure conditions like transplant, drug intake, antigens, etc. |
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Incubation period |
Time from infection up to onset of disease. |
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➡2 weeks ➡20 years ➡2 to 5 years |
Incubation period of the following: Hepatitis A ➡❔❔ Hepatitis B ➡❔❔ AIDS ➡❔❔ |
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➡Tuberculosis ➡Skin Cancer |
Immunity of the ff: White ➡❔❔ Brown➡❔❔ |
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➡Iraq ➡democratic republic of congo/zaire (1995) and Liberia, Sierra Leon and equatorial guinea (2014-2016) ➡cruise ship (USA 2002) |
Outbreak of the ff: Gulf war➡❔❔ Ebola outbreak ➡❔❔ Noro Virus ➡❔❔ |
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➡the great smog ➡beola infection |
Epidemic of the ff places: London➡❔❔ Liberia, Sierra Leon and Equatorial Guinea➡❔❔ |
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Typhoid marry in 1938 (NY) Cook ➡ 51 TY, 3 Deaths |
Carrier State example |
