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1. What is the study of disease?
pathology
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2. What is etiology?
2. The study of the CAUSE of the disease
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3. What is the way the pathogen is spread known as?
3. mode of transmission
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4. What is the growth of microorganisms in/on the body?
4. Infection
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5. What is a disease?
5. A change from a normal, healthy state
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6. What is a sign?
6. A visual, measurable change in bodyfunction *due to disease*
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7. What are subjective changes in an infected individual’s body function due to a disease?
7. A symptom
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8. What can not be seen or measured?
8. Symptoms
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9. What is a specific group if signs and symptoms that typically occur together?
9. Syndrome
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10. What disease is caused by a microorganism?
10. an infectious disease
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11. What three types of diseases are there?
11. infectious, communicable, and noncommunicable
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12. What kind of disease can be spread from one infected person to an uninfected person?
12. communicable
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13. What kind of disease is NOT spread from one person to another?
13. noncommunicable
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14. How do noncommunicable diseases happen?
14. caused microorganisms acquired from environment
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15. What is another word for a communicable disease?
15. Contagious
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16. What value tells the number of people who develop a disease in a particulartime period?
16. Incidence
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17. What does an incidence indicate?
17. how much and how quickly a disease is spreading
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18. What value tells the number of people in a population with a certain disease at one time?
18. prevalence
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19. What does prevalence help indicate?
19. how widespread the disease is
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20. What is another word for incidence?
20. morbidity
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21. What value tells the number of people in a population who die from a disease in a time period?
21. morality
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22. What kind of disease only occurs occasionally in a population?
22. Sporadic
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23.What kind of disease is constantly present?
23.endemic
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24.What is the number of new cases of a disease that increases quickly called?
24.epidemic
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25.What is a world wide epidemic?
25.pandemic
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26.How is a severe, rapidly developing and short lasting disease described?
26.acute
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27.How is a slow developing and less severe but longer lasting disease described?
27.chronic
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28.How is a disease that is between being acute and chronic described?
28.subacute
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29.What description of disease shows no signs or symptoms that are not apparent until later?
29.latent
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30.What kind of infection shows no signs or symptoms?
30.asymptomatic
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31.What kind of disease affects a limited area in the body?
31.local
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32.What kind of disease is spread through out the body, such as in the blood or lymph?
32.systemic
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33. What is the presence of bacteria in the blood called?
33. bacteremia
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34.What is it called when bacteria is in the blood but not reproducing?
34. septicemia
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35. What is the presence of toxins in the blood?
35. toxemia
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36. What is the presence of viruses in the blood?
36.viremia
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37. What is the most dangerous of the terms of stuff in the blood?
37.septicimia
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38. What is the difference between a primary and secondary infection?
38. primary happens when a person is healthy, secondary happens after a personhas been sick
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39. What is the phase between exposure to a pathogen and the first symptoms called?
39. incubation period
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40. What is the phase of the actual development of the signs and symptoms called?
40. prodromal phase
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41. What phase is when signs/symptoms are at their worst?
41. illness phase
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42. What is the phase called when a patient is feeling better?
42. decline phase
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43. What is the time of continued recovery called?
43.convalescence period
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44. What are three reservoirs of infection?
44. human carriers, animal zoonoses, and nonliving reservoirs
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45. What are “carriers”?
45. human who harbor pathogens which may be transmitted to others
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46. What are “zoonoses”?
46. animals harboring pathogens which may be transmitted to humans
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47. What are non living things with pathogens may be acquired?
47. nonliving reservoirs
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48. What type of transmission spreads pathogens by physical contact between one infected person to an uninfected person?
48. direct
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49. What is the difference between horizontal direct transmission and vertical direct transmission?
49. horizontal is from one thing to another, vertical is from parent to offspring
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50. What type of transmission involves pathogens being picked up from a contaminated,inanimate object?
50. indirect
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51 What are the inanimate objects which hold pathogens known as?
51. fomites
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52. What is the type of transmission where pathogens are spread by expelled mucus?
52. droplet
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53. What four “vehicles” transmit pathogens?
53. waterbourne, foodbourne, airbourne, blood/body fluids/ IV fluids
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54. What is the difference between droplet transmission and airbourne vehicle transmission?
54. droplet pathogens only travel one meter, airbourne pathogens travel furtherthan one meter
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55. What is an example of a vector transmission of pathogens?
55. “biological vector” where insects transmit pathogens
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56. What is the study of disease transmission and occurrence?
56. epidemiology
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57. What does CDC stand for?
57. center for disease control (and prevention)
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58. Who are “WHO”?
58. world health organization
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