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disease vocab for the quiz on monday Flashcards

1
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A personal feeling or belief

A

Attitude

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The removal of a sample of tissue of a person for examination

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Biopsy

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Behaviors and habits that help determine a person’s level of health

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Lifestyle factors

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4
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A way of life that involves little physical activity

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Sedentary Lifestyle

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A disease that can not be spread from person to person

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Non-communicable

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A disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body

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Cancer

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7
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When people make unhealthy choices, they increase their risk of disease

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Lifestyle Disease

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8
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Taking steps to avoid something

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Prevention

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A disease that can be spread to a person from another person, an animal, or an object

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Communicable

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The chance that something harmful may happen to your health and wellness

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Risk

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11
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The basic units of heredity

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Genes

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12
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Germs that cause diseases

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Pathogens

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13
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Various methods for communicating information

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Media

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14
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The collected beliefs, customs, behaviors of a group

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Culture

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15
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A preparation of dead or weakened pathogens that is introduced into the body to cause an immune response

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Vaccines

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Any condition that interferes with the proper functioning of the body or mind

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Disease

17
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Diseases that are present either continuously or off and on over a long time

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Chronic

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When one risk factor adds to another to increase danger

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Cumulative risk

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Diseases that cause further breakdown in body cells, tissues, and organs as the progress

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Degenerative

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The conscious, active choice not to participate in high-risk behaviors

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Abstinence

21
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Threadlike structures that carry genes.

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Chromosomes

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The passing of traits from parents to their biological children

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Heredity

23
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A group of abnormal cells that form a mass

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Tumor

24
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A condition that happens when pathogens enter the body

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Infection

25
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A period during which cancer signs and symptoms disappear

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Remission

26
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Disorders that are caused partially or completely by a defect in genes

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Genetic disorder

27
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The use of powerful medicines to destroy cancer cells

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Chemotherapy

28
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A substance that can cause cancer

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Carcinogen

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