Across
- 6. a disease caused by bacteria, protozoa, fungi, or viruses entering the body. Not necessarily contagious or spread by contact.
- 7. any agent such as an insect or animal that transmits, carries, or spreads disease
- 9. Treatment taken by mouth
- 10. index of essential body functions
- 12. organism that needs a host to complete their life cycle
- 16. beneath the skin
- 18. living, microscopic, disease-producing agents, such as bacterium or a virus.
- 21. substance other than food that may harbor or transmit a disease
- 23. perceptible change in any part of the body, which indicates disease
- 26. the process of injecting an animal with certain microorganisms in an effort to make the animal immune to specific diseases.
- 28. pathogens spreading from one organism to another
- 29. self-producing agents that are considerably smaller than a bacterium and can multiply only within the living cells of a suitable host.
- 30. within the muscles
- 32. plant that grows where it is not wanted
- 33. a group of drugs that are used to fight bacterial infections.
- 35. a disease transmitted or spread from animal to animal, person to person or from plant to plant, by direct or indirect contact with the diseased plant or animal.
- 37. any substance that stimulates the production of antibodies in an animal’s body.
Down
- 1. prolonged association with another species
- 2. a disease that cannot be transmitted from one animal to another
- 3. one-celled animals.
- 4. a parasite that lives inside the host
- 5. microscopic one-celled organisms that are everywhere in nature. Some are harmful and some are beneficial.
- 8. the state where all body parts of plants, animals, and people are functioning normally
- 11. any animal disease that can be transmitted from animals to other animal
- 13. substance produced by an animal’s body that fights disease or foreign materials in the bloodstream or other places in an animal’s body.
- 14. microscopic bacteria-like disease causing agent that attacks cell walls
- 15. a parasite that lives on the outside of the host
- 17. within the veins
- 18. abnormal form of protein that clumps together inside a cell
- 19. any deviation from a normal state of health in plants, animals, or people, which temporarily impairs vital functions
- 20. the time that must elapse between treatment and slaughter for production of food
- 22. the type of immunity in an animal that is permanent.
- 24. regulation under police power for the exclusion or isolation of an animal pest or or animal sick with contagious disease
- 25. any organism that another organism spends part of all of its life and derives nourishment or protection.
- 27. immunity that is temporary.
- 31. Treatment on the skin
- 34. eukaryotic organism that can be single or multiple celled with membrane bound organelles
- 36. Treatment to introduce a substance into the body of an animal