APES Week 24 Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 6277793966 | Disease | Any impaired function of the body with a characteristic set of symptoms. | 0 | |
| 6277793967 | Infectious disease | A disease caused by a pathogen. | 1 | |
| 6277793968 | Acute disease | A disease that rapidly impairs the functioning of an organism. | 2 | |
| 6277793969 | Chronic disease | A long-lasting condition that can be controlled but not cured. | 3 | |
| 6277793970 | Epidemic | A situation in which a pathogen causes a rapid increase in disease. | 4 | |
| 6277793971 | Pandemic | An epidemic that occurs over a large geographic region. | 5 | |
| 6277793972 | Plague | An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, carried by fleas. | 6 | |
| 6277793973 | Malaria | An infectious disease caused by one of several species of protists in the genus Plasmodium. | 7 | |
| 6277793974 | Tuberculosis | A highly contagious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis that primarily infects the lungs. | 8 | |
| 6277793975 | Emergent infectious disease | An infectious disease that has not been previously described or has not been common for at least 20 years. | 9 | |
| 6277793976 | AIDS | An infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus. | 10 | |
| 6277793977 | HIV | A type of virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. | 11 | |
| 6277793978 | Ebola hemorrhagic fever | An infectious disease with high death rates, caused by the Ebola virus. | 12 | |
| 6277793979 | Mad Cow Disease | A disease in which prions mutate into deadly pathogens and slowly damage a cow's nervous system. | 13 | |
| 6277793980 | Prion | A small beneficial protein that occasionally mutates into a pathogen. | 14 | |
| 6277793981 | Swine flu | A type of flu caused by the H1N1 virus | 15 | |
| 6277793982 | Bird Flu | A severe, often fatal flu virus of birds, especially poultry, that is transmissible from them to humans. | 16 | |
| 6277793983 | SARS | A type of flu caused by a coronavirus. | 17 | |
| 6277793984 | West Nile Virus | A flavivirus of African origin that can be spread to humans and other mammals via mosquitoes, causing encephalitis and flulike symptoms, with some fatalities. | 18 | |
| 6277793985 | Demographic transition | The theory that as a country moves from a subsistence economy to industrialization and increased affluence it undergoes a predictable shift in population growth | 19 | |
| 6277793986 | Affluence | The state of having plentiful wealth; the possession of money, goods, or property. | 20 | |
| 6277793987 | Family planning | The practice of regulating the number or spacing of offspring through the use of birth control. | 21 | |
| 6277793988 | IPAT Equation | Impact = population × affluence × technology. | 22 | |
| 6277793989 | Gross domestic product (GDP) | A measure of the value of all products and services produced in a country in a year. | 23 | |
| 6277793990 | Urban area (census definition) | An area that contains more than 385 people per square kilometer (1,000 people per square mile). | 24 |