vocabulary terms

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Across
  1. 2. - A pathogen is a tiny living thing or particle—such as a bacterium, virus, or fungus
  2. 6. - Protozoa are single-celled, animal-like eukaryotic microorganisms that typically lack cell walls and can move independently.
  3. 8. - something that is naturally found, native to, or constantly present in a specific place, group, or region
  4. 9. - terms for the medicine, how it works in the body, and the public health response
  5. 10. - Fungus vocabulary includes essential terms for understanding the anatomy, biology, and scientific study of fungi
  6. 13. - The COVID-19 pandemic introduced many new technical terms, everyday phrases, and slang words into our daily language.
  7. 16. - sudden, fast-spreading outbreak where a disease infects many people in a specific community or region at the same time
  8. 18. - A vector is a quantity or phenomenon that has two independent properties: magnitude (size or length) and direction
Down
  1. 1. - the rate, frequency, or number of times something happens
  2. 3. - meaningless or repetitive terms we insert into speech while our brains pause to find the next thought.
  3. 4. - Zoonotic refers to a disease or infection that can naturally spread between animals and humans.
  4. 5. - the state or quality of being widespread, common, or happening often.
  5. 7. - Transmission vocabulary terms generally refer to the parts and systems that transfer power from a vehicle's engine to the wheels
  6. 11. - A reservoir is a natural or artificial lake used to store water, or a large supply of something
  7. 12. - genus of tiny bacteria that live inside living cells and spread through bites from infected bugs like ticks, lice, and fleas
  8. 14. - Infection terminology refers to the standardized medical words used to describe how microorganisms invade, colonize, and cause illness in a host
  9. 15. - Epidemiology is the branch of public health that studies how diseases spread, how often they occur, and how to control them in populations
  10. 17. - A bacterium is a tiny, single-celled microorganism that has cell walls but no true nucleus.
  11. 18. - A virus is a tiny, infectious germ made of genetic code inside a protective shell that must use a living cell to make copies of itself