Across
- 3. microorganisms that cause communicable diseases
- 4. disease disease that causes the body’s immune system to attack and damage healthy body tissues
- 6. complex disease that typically involves an uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells
- 7. of transmission way a disease gets from one organism or object to another; may be direct or indirect
- 8. substances that target and kill pathogenic bacteria
- 9. disease resulting from the body’s inability to regulate glucose; commonly known as diabetes
Down
- 1. 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
- 2. condition someone can develop after coming into contact with living things or objects infected with the disease; also called infectious disease
- 5. medical conditions that cannot be spread among living things and objects, but develop as a result of heredity, environment, and lifestyle factors; also known as noninfectious diseases