Karteikarten
Health, Disease and Developement of Medicines Keywords
Karten in diesem Stapel (28)
- 1obesitylarge amounts of fat formed around the sin and under the organs
- 2cardiovascular diseasea result of the circulatory system functioning poorly
- 3BMI (body mass index)used to predict the amount of fat on the body (weight/height2)
- 4waist to hip ratiogives a better method of measuring abdominal fat
- 5communicable diseasecaused by pathogens and can therefore be passed from one person to another
- 6non-communicable diseasecannot be passed on, caused by a problem or fault within the body or lifestyle of an individual
- 7antibiotica medicine used to kill bacteria or stop it from growing (inhibit cell processes)
- 8antibiotic resistancewhen a bacteria has evolved so it can no longer be killed by the antibiotic that used to work on it
- 9antibodya protein that sticks to a pathogen to help the immune system to destroy it
- 10antigenprotein on the surface of a bacterial cell
- 11antiseptica substance used to kill microbes on the surface of a body or equipment
- 12clinical trialswhen a medicine is tested to make sure it is safe and has no side-effects
- 13deficiency diseasea disease caused by a lack of a particular nutrient
- 14epidemicwhen a communicable disease spreads quickly
- 15genetic disordersa disease caused by faulty alleles of genes
- 16healthcomplete social, mental and physical wellbeing
- 17herd immunitythe theory that some unvaccinated people are safe because a large sum of people have been vaccinated
- 18hydrochloric acidthe acid in your stomach which kills the bacteria in your food
- 19immunewhen you are protected from a particular pathogen so you cannot get it again
- 20immune systemprotects the body from communicable diseases
- 21inhibitto stop something from happening
- 22lysozymean enzyme which breaks down the cell wall of a bacterial cell to kill the pathogen
- 23malnutritionwhen you get too little/much of a certain nutrient in your diet
- 24MMRvaccine for measles, mumps and rubella
- 25secondary responsereleasing lots of antibodies quickly the second time the same pathogen attacks you
- 26stenta small metal mesh tube to open a blocked blood vessel
- 27STD/Isexually transmitted disease/infection
- 28vectorwhen an organism carries a pathogen from one person to another (animal vector)