APES Toxicology Flashcards

8413526819	pandemic	an epidemic that is geographically widespread	0
8413585515	carcinogen	causes cancer	1
8422994315	teratogen	causes birth defect	2
8422996841	mutagen	causes DNA muntates	3
8423000435	Toxin	produced by living things	4
8423007838	Toxicant	produced by human	5
8423018877	Toxicility	ability to harm	6
8423023535	exposure	amount of toxic chemical our body comes in contact with	7
8423039815	corridor	combine species from two areas	8
8423080349	bioinformatics	the science of collecting and analyzing complex biological data such as genetic codes.	9
8423094393	canal	"yunhe" divided species	10
8423133932	pathogen	infectious agents such as prions, bacteria, viruses	11
8423169388	Acute respiratory infections	pneumonia, influenza, and whooping cough	12
8423189299	Diarrheal diseases	dysentery, cholera, typhoid	13
8423231845	Tuberculosis		14
8423244418	Malaria	Bad air; a disease usually spread by infected mosquitoes	15
8423260770	HIV/AIDS	Come from chimps	16
8423270727	Measles		17
8423276803	Hepatitis		18
8423285523	tetanus	A serious bacterial infection that causes painful muscle spasms and can lead to death.	19
8423304395	Emergent Diseases	New Diseases like Ebola, bird flu, wast nile	20
8423331601	west nile	from bird and mosquito	21
8423361291	Bacterial resistance	Microbes constantly & rapidly mutate. This can make them genetically resistant to antibiotics	22
8423367294	edemic	disease that is always present in population	23
8423399390	Thermal Pollution	can be acute or chronic more heat, less dessolved o2	24
8423429261	Risk Assessment	identifying hazards and evaluating their risks	25
8423439728	Greatest Risks People face	1. poverty 2. being born male 3. smoking 4. being 35% overweight	26
8423460820	dose	actual amount of a chemical that enters and reacts with our body systems over time	27
8423465877	inhalation	thru lung	28
8423479227	Dermal abroption	thru skin	29
8423485054	Oral	through digestive system	30
8423489909	Injection	directly to veins	31
8423514634	heavy metal ingestion	chronic	32
8423547630	No threshold	Any exposure is harmful and increases with the dosage Ex: chemicals that cause birth defects or cancer.	33
8423553223	Threshold	Harmful effects occur only when the dosage exceeds a certain level Ex: body can repair itself	34
8423583136	Local effect: causes damage only where it touches Systemic: gets into bloodstream and effects many organs Bioaccumulation: toxin builds up in body systems over time Antagonism: one substance interferes with the action of another Synergism: the interaction of two or more chemical is greater than the sum of their parts	types of effects	35
8423601082	Malignant	tumor invades surrounding tissue.	36
8423611676	Benign	well defined tumor that doesn't spread.	37