8.1 Medical Detective Terms

2. The ability of an organism or cell to maintain equilibrium by adjusting its physiological processes in order to function properly.
5. Any disease-producing agent such as a virus, bacteria, or parasite.
6. The introduction of a pathogen or antigen into a living organism to stimulate the production of antibodies
8. Abnormally low body temperature
11. A sub-microscopic particle that must infect living plant or animal cells to reproduce.
12. An infectious disease that spreads rapidly and sickens a large number of people.
15. The state produced by the establishment of an infective agent in or on a suitable host.
16. A sudden rise in the incidence of a disease.
17. The force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood and expressed in millimeters of mercury.
18. Measurements of the body’s most basic functions and useful in detecting or monitoring medical problems.
19. Blood pressure that remains between heart contractions.
20. The application of the principles of the natural sciences, especially biology and physiology, to clinical medicine.

1. High blood pressure.
3. The blood pressure generated by the heart during contraction.
4. Overheating of the body, possibly due to extreme weather conditions.
7. A measure of cardiac activity usually expressed as the number of beats per minute.
9. The rhythmic expansion and recoil of arteries resulting from heart contraction; can be felt from the outside of the body.
10. Something that indicated the presence of bodily disorder
11. A harmless variant of a pathogen that stimulates a host’s immune system to mount defenses against the pathogen.
13. To recognize a disease by signs and symptoms.
14. Communicable by contact.