Sickness and Health Flashcards by Trevor Pryhorocki

Bacterial disease causing abdominal pain and dehydration

Cholera

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Pyelonephritis is a disease of this organ

Kidney

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Gum doctor

Periodontist

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Low blood pressure

Hypotension

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Scarlet fever germ

Streptococci

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Inflamation - pain and swelling of the joints

Arthritis

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Eye lens defect

Astigmatism

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Scar tissue of the liver caused by alcoholim

Cirrhosis

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Disease of hardening of the artery walls

Arteriosclerosis

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Hepatitis is a disease of this organ

Liver

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Memory loss associated with the elderly

Alzheimer’s disease

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First organ to be transplanted - 1954

Kidney

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Anxiety about health

Hypchondria

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Affliction in which children are socially withdrawn

Autism

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Common name for alopecia

Baldness

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Vitamin deficiency causing rickets

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Malaria medicine from chinchona tree bark

Quinine

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Diver’s condition of nitrogen bubbles in the blood

Bends

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Hyperactive child disorder

Attention deficit hyperactive disororder

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Paralyzing food poisoning caused by a toxin

Botulism

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Common baby disease

Colic

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Vitamin deficiency causing beriberi

B-1 (thiamine)

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Enlargement of the thyroid gland by iodine deficiency

Goiter

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Damaged brain stem disease

Polio

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Virus that appeared in Zaire in 1995

Ebola

Disease of the gum

Gingivitis

Clouding of the eye's lens

Cataracts

Steroid that relieves arthrits pain

Cortisone

RICE

Rest - ice - compression - elevation

Hereditary bleeding disease

Hemophilia

Encephalitis is a disease of this organ

Brain

"Picture" of an unborn child

Sonogram

Low blood sugar

Hypoglycemia

How fetal defects are detected

Amniocentesis

Common name for Daltonism

Color blindness

Common name of diazapan

Valium

Insulin deficiency disorder

Diabetes

Reduced bone mass disease

Osteoporosis

Iron or hemoglobin deficiency

Anemia

Disorder resulting in weakness of the facial muscles

Bell's palsy

Thyroid disease

Grave's Disease

Mutation bacteria that causes paralyzing cramps

E. Coli

Vitamin deficiency causing night blindness

A (retinol)

Twenty-four hour human biological rhythym

Circadian rhythym

Surgery to correct myopia

Radio caritodimy

Blood clotting vitamin

Swelling of salivary glands is a symptom of this

Mumps

Compound carried by high and low density lipoproteins

Cholesterol

Rhinitis affects this

Nose

Disease that destroys myelin sheaths in nerve fibers

Multiple sclerosis

Vitamin deficiency causing pernicious anemia

B-12 (folic acid)

Most common cause of death in America

Heart disease

Mononucleosis germ

Epstein-Barr

Second most common cause of death in America

Cancer

Equipment used to electrically restart the heart

Defibrillator

Disease with raised fluid pressure on the eye

Glaucoma

Hormone prescribed to promote fertility

Estrogen

Food poisoning that effects gastrointestinal tract

Salmonella

Common name for rubella

German measles

High blood pressure

Hypertension

Disorder of the wrist

Carpal tunnel Syndrome

The study of cancer

Oncology

Common name for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Lou Gehrig's Disease

Common name for consumption

Tuberculosis

Common name for neoplasm

Tumor

"Kissing disease"

Mononucleosis

Binge eating and purging disease

Bulimia

Common virus that causes colds

Rhino virus

Bulge in an artery wall

Aneurysm

Plague that spread across 14th century Europe

Bubonic plague or the Black Death

Hansen's or Father Damien's disease

Leprosy

Tuberculocus is a disease of this organ

Lungs

Syndrome involving barking and cursing

Tourette's Syndrome

Common name for conjunctivitis

Pink eye

Yellowing of the skin caused by excessive bile

Jaundice

Common name for pertussis

Whooping Cough

Vitamin deficiency causing anemia

B-6 (niacen)

Retardation caused by an extra chromosome

Down syndrome

Inflamation of the tongue

Glossalgia

Sudden sleep attacks

Narcolepsy

Chronic respiratory disease that includes spasms

Asthma

Common name for myopia

Near sightedness

Brief stopping of breathing during sleep

Sleep apnea

Blockage of an artery by a bubble or blood clot

Embolism

Vitamin deficiency causing lesions

B-2 (riboflavin)

PTSD

Post traumatic stress disorder

Mary Mallon's disease (1904-15)

Typhoid

Food aversion disorder

Anorexia Nervosa

"Splitting of the mind" phenomenon

Schizophrenia

Septal defect

Hole in the heart

When the spinal cord blocks pain

Analgesia

When body temperature drops below 95 degrees

Hypothermia