Chapter 6

Question 1

List 5 stressors and rate them

Answer 1

• cut finger -mild
• bee sting -mild
• dehydrated -mild
• auto accident -severe
• broken leg -severe

Question 2

Possible consequence of extreme disruption of homeostasis

Answer 2

Death

Question 3

Describe 4 health risks that humans bring upon themselves

Answer 3

• drinking
• smoking
• speeding
• not wearing a seatbelt

Question 4

Briefly describe a decision that involves ethics

Answer 4

Vaccines, can’t force someone to have them, but not being vaccinated put others at risk

Question 5

stressors

Answer 5

anything sensory nerves identify

Question 6

triage

Answer 6

deciding who should be treated first, by rank

Question 7

vital signs

Answer 7

blood pressure, heart rate, temperature, respiration rate

Question 8

prognosis

Answer 8

chances of living

Question 9

pathogen

Answer 9

living thing that infects the body

Question 10

antibodies

Answer 10

proteins produced by white blood cells, and destroy antigens

Question 11

antigens

Answer 11

foreign protein

Question 12

histamines

Answer 12

allergies, rash, sore threat and watery eyes

Question 13

antihistamines

Answer 13

destroy/counter attack histamines

Question 14

autoimmune disease

Answer 14

when the body attacks itself

Question 15

memory of infection

Answer 15

when the body remembers infections it has come in contact with

Question 16

vaccination

Answer 16

a weakened, dead or toxin form of a disease injected into the body