Disease Flashcards

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What are some factors which affect your health?

A
age 
exercise
smoking
diet
weather
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What causes a disease?

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A pathogen

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3
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What’s a communicable disease?

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communicable diseases cause symptoms which let you know we have the disease

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What does a vaccination do?

A

Exposes your immune system to a particular pathogen that it can develop antibodies to fight it

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What are antibodies?

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Antibodies destroy pathogens by binding to then and causing the to be cut open

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What’s an antitoxin?

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Antitoxins can detect and bind to toxins, neutralising them which makes the less harmful

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What do antibiotics do?

A

Treat bacterial infections

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8
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What do steroids do?

A

increase muscle growth

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9
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What do stimulants i.e caffeine do?

A

Become more alert and increase concentration

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10
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What do statins do?

A

Reduce blood cholesterol

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What do painkillers do?

A

relieve the symptoms of disease

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12
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What does thalidomide do?

A

Treats leprosy

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What’s a non communicable disease?

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A disease that she not caused by pathogen

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14
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What’s a benign tumour?

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A growth of abnormal cells which are contained in one area

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What’s a malignant tumour?

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Malignant tumour is cancerous which invade neighbouring tissue and spread to different part of the body in the blood

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What does coronary heart disease affect?

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it affects the coronary arteries which will provide oxygen and glucose to the heart muscle

17
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What’s thrombosis,

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Thrombosis is when the blood flow is restricted, blood pressure then increases

18
Q

What’s atheroma?

A

Atheroma is the name of fatty deposit which forms within the wall of the artery

19
Q

What is a a heart attack also known as?

A

myocardial infraction