Chp 3 Pratical Conecpts

Question 1

What is disease?

Answer 1

Disorder of body function
(Systems or organs)

Question 2

Etiology

Answer 2

Cause of a disease
(Motor of operation)/ how it is transmitted

Question 3

Communicable

Answer 3

Contagious

Question 4

Non-Communicable

Answer 4

Non contagious

Question 5

Communicability

Answer 5

How quickly it spreads

Question 6

Infectivity

Answer 6

how well a pathogen can survive within host

Question 7

Virulence

Answer 7

How likely disease is going to develop

Question 8

________ ___________ is a transmission from an individual to its offspring through sperm, placenta, milk, or achínale fluids

Answer 8

Vertical Transmission

Question 9

_______ _______ transmission of infectious agents from an infected individual to a susceptible contemporary

Answer 9

Horizontal Transmission

Question 10

_______ capable of producing the disease

Answer 10

Organisms

Question 11

Example of organisms

Answer 11

Bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites

Question 12

_______ kill pathogens by poisoning them

Answer 12

TOxins

Question 13

___________ work against pathogens because of their toxicity

Answer 13

Antibiotics

Question 14

_____ disorder with a sudden onset, relatively severe, and short duration of symptoms

Answer 14

Acute

Question 15

______ less severe, but of long continuous duration, lasting, over long time periods, if not lifetime

Answer 15

Chronic

Question 16

______ the capacity of the pathogen or disease causing agent to survive outside the host & exist to thrive in enviornment

Answer 16

Viability

Question 17

Active immunity

Answer 17

The body produces its own antibodies

Question 18

Passive immunity

Answer 18

Acquired through trans placental transfer of a mothers immunity to diseases to the unborn child

Question 19

The resistance a population has to the invasion and spread of an infectious disease is ?

Answer 19

Herd immunity