Cut-out cards Matching sheet

Communicable Diseases

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Write the letter of the matching definition next to each term.

1. COMMUNICABLE
A. Available source of wealth (plural)
2. PATHOGENS
B. Care provided to improve a situation (plural)
3. PREVENTED
C. To keep from happening or arising
4. IMMUNE
D. Respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma with congestion caused
5. ACQUIRED
E. The introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery
6. INCUBATION
F. A program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill
7. TRANSFUSION
G. The phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and
8. CHANCRE
H. Taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit
9. PENICILLIN
I. To provide a ___ for, make healthy again
10. PNEUMONIA
J. Capable of being transmitted by infection
11. HOSPICE
K. The state of being free of pathogenic organisms
12. STERILITY
L. Coccoid rickettsia infesting birds and mammals
13. SYPHILIS
M. Any disease-producing agent (plural)
14. DISEASES
N. A small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen
15. CAUSES
O. Being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering
16. CHLAMYDIA
P. Events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something (plural)
17. OPPORTUNISTIC
Q. An illness that harms the body (plural)
18. CHRONIC
R. Not causing or capable of causing harm
19. VIRUS
S. To come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
20. CURED
T. The work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something (plural)
21. AIDS
U. A person who is ___ to a particular infection
22. RESOURCES
V. Ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts
23. TREATMENTS
W. A common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete
24. HARMLESS
X. Any of various antibiotics obtained from ___ molds and used in the treatment of various