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The Human Body in Health and Illness
Chapter 5 Exam Questions With Verified
Answers


What is disease - Answers✔failure of the body to function normally

types of pathogens - Answers✔bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa

larger disease causing organisms - Answers✔worms and arthropods

bacteria - Answers✔single-celled organisms found everywhere

pathogens - Answers✔disease-producing microorganisms

infection - Answers✔invasion of the body by pathogen and the symptoms that develop in
response to this invasion

colonization - Answers✔microorganism is present but not causing illness

normal flora - Answers✔prevents the over growth of organisms, keeping them under control

antibiotic - Answers✔Chemical used to trat bacteria infection

communicable disease - Answers✔Any disease that can be spread from one host to another.

commensal - Answers✔organisms living in harmonious and beneficial relationship with each
other.

epidemic disease - Answers✔a disease by many people in a given area over a short period

epidemiology - Answers✔the study of the occurrence and distribution of a disease in a
population

incubation period - Answers✔the lapse period of time from the exposure of a person to a
pathogen to the development of the symptoms of the disease

nosocomial infection - Answers✔a hospital acquired infection

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vector - Answers✔A carrier of pathogens from host to host

when bacteria invades they cause damage in two ways - Answers✔by entering & growing in the
human cell and by secreting toxins that damage the cell

classification into three groups based on shape - Answers✔Coccus, Bacillus and Curved

cocco - Answers✔round cells that are arranged in patterns

bacillus - Answers✔rod shape - long and slender shape like a cigar

curved rod - Answers✔vibrio (spirillum) - curved and resembles a comma

viruses - Answers✔smallest of the infectious agents

viruses - Answers✔are not cells and consist of either RNA and DNA surrounded by protein shell

viruses - Answers✔can only reproduce within the living cells of a host, they are parasites

fungus - Answers✔plantlike organisms - ex mushrooms

fungus - Answers✔grows best in the dark - ex yeast and molds

fungus - Answers✔mycotic infections - ex athletes feet, ringworm, thrust and vaginitis

protozoa - Answers✔single cell, animal microbes

protozoa - Answers✔amebas, cillates, flagellates and sporozoa

protozoa - Answers✔found in soil and in most bodies of water - ex malaria

helminths - Answers✔parasitic worms

anthropods - Answers✔animals with jointed legs and include insects = ex mites, lice, mosquito,
biting fleas and ticks act as vectors of disease

antibiotic - Answers✔Chemical used to treat bacterial infections

Commensal - Answers✔Organisms living in a harmonious and beneficial relationship with
eachother. The organism derive nutritional or other environmental benefits from the other.
Commensal bacteria are part of the normal flora

communicable disease - Answers✔any disease that can be spread from one host to another. A
non communicable disease is an infectious disease that can not be transmitted directly or
indirectly from host to host.

epidemic disease - Answers✔disease acquired by many hosts in a given area in a short time. A
endemic disease is always present in a population
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