What is a Medical Detective, Lesson 8.1
Abnormally low body temperature
Hyperthermia
Infection
Hypothermia
Epidemic
A sub-microscopic particle that must infect living plant or animal cells to reproduce.
Infection
Contagious
Inoculation
Virus
The force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood and expressed in millimeters of mercury
Heart Rate
Blood Pressure
Virus
Diastolic Pressure
The introduction of a pathogen or antigen into a living organism to stimulate the production of antibodies.
Pathogen
Contagious
Vaccine
Inoculation
Measurements of the body's most basic functions and useful in detecting or monitoring medical problems.
Vital Signs
Blood Pressure
Heart Rate
Outbreak
A measure of cardiac activity usually expressed as the number of beats per minute.
Blood Pressure
Vital Signs
Heart Rate
Pulse
Overheating of the body, possibly due to extreme weather conditions.
Diastolic Pressure
Systolic Pressure
Hypothermia
Hyperthermia
The rhythmic expansion and recoil of arteries resulting from the heart contraction; can be felt from the outside of the body.
Pulse
Heart Rate
Blood Pressure
Diastolic Pressure
The blood pressure generated by the heart during contraction.
Blood Pressure
Diastolic Pressure
Systolic Pressure
Pulse
An infectious disease that spreads rapidly and sickens a large number of people.
Outbreak
Virus
Epidemic
Pathogen
Communicable by contact.
Contagious
Symptom
Epidemic
Infection
The ability of an organism or cell to maintain equilibrium by adjusting its physiological processes in order to function properly.
Vital Signs
Diagnose
Hypertension
Homeostasis
Blood pressure that remains between heart contractions.
Blood Pressure
Diastolic Pressure
Systolic Pressure
Pulse
Any disease-producing agent such as a virus, bacteria, or parasite.
Virus
Pathogen
Infection
Outbreak
To recognize a disease by signs and symptoms.
Diagnose
Contagious
Inoculation
Symptom
High blood pressure.
Infection
Systolic Pressure
Diastolic Pressure
Hypertension
A sudden rise in the incidence of a disease.
Epidemic
Infection
Outbreak
Pathogen
The state produced by the establishment of an infective agent in or on a suitable host.
Outbreak
Infection
Vital Signs
Contagious
Something that indicates the presence of bodily disorder.
Virus
Symptom
Epidemic
Contagious
A harmless variant of a pathogen that stimulates a host's immune system to mount defenses against the pathogen.
Vaccine
Epidemic
Heart Rate
Symptom
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