Understanding and Preventing Diseases

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Across
  1. 1. Medical emergency in which flow of blood to the heart is restricted, causing the heart to beat irregularly and inefficiently
  2. 4. Mass of abnormal cells
  3. 6. Also known as the kissing disease
  4. 8. Bacterial or viral infection that affects the tonsils
  5. 10. Also called infectious disease
  6. 15. Contagious respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus
  7. 17. Medical emergency in which blood flow to part of the brain is interrupted, injuring or killing brain cells
  8. 18. Medical condition that cannot be spread among living things and objects, but develop as a result of heredity, environment, and lifestyle factors
  9. 19. Substances that target and kill pathogenic bacteria
Down
  1. 2. disease that causes the body's immune system to attack and damage healthy body tissue
  2. 3. Also known as pink eye
  3. 5. commonly known as diabetes
  4. 7. Complex disease that typically involves an uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells
  5. 9. Viral infection of the respiratory system; also known as the flu
  6. 11. Condition that results in inflammation of the joints, causing pain and stiffness
  7. 12. Practice of covering your mouth and nose with a tissue while coughing or sneezing, or sneezing into your sleeve.
  8. 13. Microorganisms that cause communicable disease
  9. 14. Substance that contains a dead or nontoxic part of a pathogen that is injected into a person to train that person's immune system to eliminate the live pathogen
  10. 16. Food safety practices that maintain the safety of food you handle and eat