Understanding & Preventing Diseases
Across
- 2. medical conditions that cannot be spread among living things and objects
- 3. viral infection of the respiratory system
- 5. mass of abnormal cells
- 7. substance that contains a dead or nontoxic part of a pathogen that is injected into a person to train their immune system to eliminate the live pathogen
- 9. medical emergency in which flow of blood to the brain is interrupted, injuring or killing brain cells
- 10. type of disease/condition someone can develop after coming in contact with living things or objects infected with the disease
- 11. condition that results in inflammation of the joints, causing pain and stiffness
Down
- 1. complex disease that typically involves an uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells
- 4. disease that causes the body's immune system to attack and damage healthy body tissues
- 5. bacterial or viral infection that affects the tonsils
- 6. microorganisms that cause communicable diseases
- 8. substances that target and kill pathogenic bacteria