Everything in this flashcard set.
- cure
- A medicine or therapy that ___ disease or relieve pain
- vaccination
- Taking a ___ as a precaution against contracting a disease
- symptoms
- Any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated (plural)
- AIDS
- The abbreviation for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, an advanced stage of HIV infection.
- HIV
- The virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome
- infection
- The invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead
- antibodies
- Any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to (plural)
- skin
- A natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
- pathogen
- Any disease-producing agent
- contact
- The act of touching physically
- disease
- An illness that harms the body
- organism
- An individual living thing.
- Immune
- A person who is ___ to a particular infection
- Deficiency
- The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
- Syndrome
- A complex of concurrent things
- destroy
- To do away with, cause the ___ or undoing of
- membrane
- A pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants