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1. Respiratory System: Organs in your body that help you breathe.
2. Organ: A collection of tissues joined in a structural unit to serve a commonfunction.
3. Nervous System: Receives and interprets stimuli and transmits to the effectororgans.
4. Digestive System: The group of organs that break down foods into chemicalcomponents
that the body can absorb and use for energy and building cells andtissues.
5. Cardiovascular System: The transport system of the body responsible for car-rying oxygen
and nutrients to the body and carrying away carbon dioxide and otherwastes.
6. Virus: A small infectious agent that can replicate only inside living cells of anorganism.
7. Transmission: The way microbial organisms move from one host to another.
8. T Lymphocyte (T cells): A type of lymphocyte responsible for cell-mediatedimmunity
that differentiates under the influence of the thymus.
9. Spirillium: A spiral shaped bacterium.
10. Protozoa: Any protist of the phylum or subkingdom Protozoa.
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11. Phagocyte: Eats cells
12. Microbiology: A branch of biology dealing especially with microscopic forms oflife.
13. Infection: The state produced by the establishment of an infective agent in oron a suitable
host.
14. Immunity: Being able to resist a particular disease.
15. Helminth: A parasitic worm.
16. Gram Stain: A method for seeing if a bacteria is is Gram positive, or negative.
17. Fungus: A member of a large group eukaryotic organisms that includes microor-ganisms
such as yeast, molds, and mushrooms.
18. Contagious: Communicable by contact.
19. Coccus: A round bacterium.
20. B cell: A type of lymphocyte that develops in the bone marrow and later pro-duces
antibodies.
21. Bacteria: Single-celled microorganisms that are often aggregated into coloniesor motile. A
type of pathogen.
22. Bacillus: A rod-shaped bacterium.
23. Aseptic Technique: A procedure performed under sterile conditions.
24. Antibody: Produced by B Cells.
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25. Stroke: Sudden loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion causedby rupture of
obstruction of a blood vessel of the brain.
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