8.1 Flashcards
Biomedical science
The application of the principles of the natural sciences, especially biology and physiology, to clinical medicine.
Blood Pressure
The force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood and expressed in millimeters of mercury.
Contagious
Communicable by contact.
Diagnose
To recognize a disease by its symptoms.
Diastolic pressure
Blood pressure remaining between heart contractions
Epidemic
An infectious disease that spreads rapidly and sickens a large amount of people.
Heart rate
A measure of cardiac activity.
Homeostasis
The ability of a cell to maintain equilibrium.
Hyperthermia
Overheating of the body
Infection
The state produced by the establishment of an infective agent.
Inoculation
The introduction of a pathogen
Outbreak
A sudden rise in the incidence of a disease
Pathogen
Any disease producing agent
Pulse
The expansion and recoil of of the heart
Symptom
Something that indicates the presence of a bodily disorder.
Systolic pressure
The blood pressure generated by the heart during a contraction.
Vaccine
A harmless variant of a pathogen
Virus
A sub microscopic particle that must infect a cell to reproduce.
Vital signs
Measurements of the body’s most basic functions.
