Key Terms Flashcards
The application of the principals of the natural sciences, especially biology and physiology, to clinical medicine.
Bio medical science
The force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood and expressed in millimeters of mercury.
Blood pressure
Communicable by contact.
Contagious
To recognize a disease by signs and symptoms.
Diagnose
Blood pressure that remains between heart contractions.
Diastolic pressure
An infectious disease that spreads rapidly and sickens a large amount of people.
Epidemic
A measure of cardiac activity usually expressed as the numbers of beats per minute.
Heart rate
The ability of and organism or cell to maintain equilibrium by adjusting its physiology processes in order to function properly.
Homeostasis
Overheating if the body, possibly due extreme weather conditions.
Hyperthermia
High blood pressure.
Hyper tension
Abnormally low body temperatures.
Hypothermia
The state produced by the establishment of an infective agent in or in a suitable host.
Infection
The introduction of a pathogen or antigen into a living organism to simulate the production of antibodies.
Inoculation
A sudden rise in the incident of a disease.
Outbreak
Any disease-producing agent such as a virus, bacteria, or parasite.
Pathogen
