Terminology List Flashcards
1
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Zoonosis
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-disease transmitted from animals to humans
2
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Anthropozonotic
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Same as zoonosis
3
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Reverse zoonosis
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Disease passed from human to animal
4
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Zooanthroponosis
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Same as reverse zoonosis
5
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Epidemic
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Occurring widely in a community at any given time
6
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Epidemiologist
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Studies the direction of diseases
7
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Pandemic
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Disease spread worldwide
8
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Endemic
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Regularly occurring disease in a community
9
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Host
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Has disease
10
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Reservoir host
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Where the disease starts, grows, and lives
11
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Dead end host
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A host that shelters an organism but is unable to transmit the organism to a different host
12
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Fomite
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Objects that are like to carry infection like clothes, utensils, and furniture
13
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Morbidity
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Suffering from disease or health problem
