Physical Health Test Review

3. A strong, sometimes fatal reaction to taking a large amount of a drug.
5. The main muscle of respiration.
8. Nicotine patches and gums are examples of nicotine ______________.
11. __________________ is the hormone produced in the pancreas.
13. _________________ respiration is when oxygen moves from the blood into the cells, and carbon dioxide moves from the cells into the blood.
14. With _________________ diabetes, the body still produces insulin. But doesn’t respond normally to the insulin the body makes.
15. The fluid in which other parts of the blood are suspended.
16. Cells in the blood that cause blood clots to form.
17. Someone who is addicted and dependent on alcohol.
20. ___________ circulation is the process by which blood moves between the heart and the lungs.
23. The __________ Nervous System is made up of the brain and spinal cord.
26. Characterized by the accumulation of plaque on artery walls.
28. Thin-walled air sacs within the lungs that are covered in capillaries.
31. The process of learning to live alcohol free.
32. Activates a person’s immune system to recognize specific cancers and destroy them.
33. Non-cancerous tumor.

1. A drug that slows the central nervous system.
2. The spread of cancer from the point where it originated to other parts of the body.
4. Cancerous tumor.
6. The stages of alcoholism are abuse, dependence, and ___________.
7. _____________ dependence is when a drug user believes that a drug in needed in order to feel good or function normally.
9. The mind altering chemical found in marijuana.
10. The removal of a small piece of tissue for examination.
12. Living without alcohol.
18. Thickened, white, leathery-looking spots on the inside of the mouth that can develop into oral cancer.
19. Another name for high blood pressure.
21. Blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood away from the heart.
22. One symptom of alcohol poisoning is _________ breathing.
24. The second step in treating alcoholism.
25. Drinking five or more alcoholic drinks.
27. Alcohol __________ is a potentially fatal reaction to an alcohol overdose.
29. Blood vessels that return deoxygenated blood to the heart.
30. Nerve cells.