8.1

Question 1

Biomedical science

Answer 1

The application of the principles of the natural sciences, especially biology and physiology, to clinical medicine.

Question 2

Blood Pressure

Answer 2

The force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood and expressed in millimeters of mercury.

Question 3

Contagious

Answer 3

Communicable by contact.

Question 4

Diagnose

Answer 4

To recognize a disease by its symptoms.

Question 5

Diastolic pressure

Answer 5

Blood pressure remaining between heart contractions

Question 6

Epidemic

Answer 6

An infectious disease that spreads rapidly and sickens a large amount of people.

Question 7

Heart rate

Answer 7

A measure of cardiac activity.

Question 8

Homeostasis

Answer 8

The ability of a cell to maintain equilibrium.

Question 9

Hyperthermia

Answer 9

Overheating of the body

Question 10

Infection

Answer 10

The state produced by the establishment of an infective agent.

Question 11

Inoculation

Answer 11

The introduction of a pathogen

Question 12

Outbreak

Answer 12

A sudden rise in the incidence of a disease

Question 13

Pathogen

Answer 13

Any disease producing agent

Question 14

Pulse

Answer 14

The expansion and recoil of of the heart

Question 15

Symptom

Answer 15

Something that indicates the presence of a bodily disorder.

Question 16

Systolic pressure

Answer 16

The blood pressure generated by the heart during a contraction.

Question 17

Vaccine

Answer 17

A harmless variant of a pathogen

Question 18

Virus

Answer 18

A sub microscopic particle that must infect a cell to reproduce.

Question 19

Vital signs

Answer 19

Measurements of the body’s most basic functions.