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8.1 Flashcards

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Biomedical science

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The application of the principals of the natural sciences especially biology and physiology to clinical medicine

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Blood pressure

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

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Contagious

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Communicable by contact

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Diagnose

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To recognize a disease by sighs and symptoms

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Diastolic pressure

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Blood pressure that remains between heart contractions

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Heart rate

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A measure of cardiac usually expressed in as the number of beats per minute

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Homeostasis

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The ability of an organism or cell to maintain equilibrium by adjusting the physiological process in order to function properly

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8
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Hyperthermia

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Overhearing of the body possibly due to extreme weather conditions

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Hypertension

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High blood pressure

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Hypothermia

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Abnormally low body temperature

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Infection

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The state produced by the establishment of an infection

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Inoculation

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The introduction of a pathogen or antigen into a living organism to stimulate the production or antibodies

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Outbreak

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A sudden rise in the incidence of a disease

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Pathogen

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any disease producing agent such as a virus bacteria or parasite

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Pulse

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The rhythmic expansion and recoil of arteries resulting from heart contractions can be felt from the outside of the body

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Symptom

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Something that indicates the presence of bodily disorder

17
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Systolic pressure

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A blood pressure generated by the heart during contractions

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Vaccine

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I’m a harmless variant of a pathogen that stimulates the hosts immune system to mount defense against the pathogen

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Virus

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A sub microscopic particl that must infect living plant or animal cells to reproduce

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Vital signs

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Measurements of the body’s most basic functions and useful in detecting or monitoring of the body’s most basic functions and useful in detecting or monitoring medical problems

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