Medical Detectives Final Exam Review

Something that indicates the presence of bodily disorder.

• Vaccine

• Inoculation

• Diagnose

• Symptom

The application of the principles of the natural sciences, especially biology and physiology, to clinical medicine.

• Biomedical Science

• Vaccine

• Outbreak

• Blood Pressure

The introduction of a pathogen or antigen into a living organism to stimulate the production of antibodies.

• Inoculation

• Diagnose

• Contagious

• Vaccine

A sudden rise in the incidence of a disease.

• Symptom

• Outbreak

• Epidemic

• Infection

Overheating of the body, possibly due to extreme weather conditions.

• Hypothermia

• Hypertension

• Hyperthermia

• Systolic Pressure

A measure of cardiac activity usually expressed as the number of beats per minute.

• Virus

• Blood Pressure

• Heart Rate

• Pulse

Communicable by contact.

• Contagious

• Outbreak

• Homeostasis

• Diagnose

The state produced by the establishment of an infective agent in or on a suitable host.

• Infection

• Hypothermia

• Contagious

• Homeostasis

A harmless variant of a pathogen that stimulates a host’s immune system to mount defenses against the pathogen.

• Vaccine

• Infection

• Diagnose

• Virus

Measurements of the body’s most basic functions and useful in detecting or monitoring medical problems.

• Blood Pressure

• Vital Signs

• Vaccine

• Hypertension