| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Anatomy | structure of body |
| anorexia | loss of appetite and inability to eat. |
| benign | not cancerous |
| biopsy | sugical exam of tissue |
| bulimia | abnormally voracious appetite or unnaturally constant hunger. |
| blood pressure | 120/80 |
| cancer | abnomal cell growth |
| carcinogenic | cancer causing agent |
| chemotherapy | drugs to treat cancer |
| communicable | contagious |
| congenital | born with |
| diabetes | body does not use food correctly |
| heart attack | blood supply to heart shut off |
| hepatitis | inflammation of the liver |
| hypertension | high blood pressure |
| immunity | body's way of fighting disease |
| influenza | the flu |
| malignant | cancerous |
| metastasis | the spreading of cancer |
| non-comminicable | not contagious |
| obesity | 30% over one's ideal weight |
| pathogens | germs |
| physiology | function of the body |
| pulse | 72 |
| temperature | 96.6 |
| transmission | the way a disease is spread |
| steroids | Any of various hormones having the structure of a steroid that are made synthetically, especially for use in medicine. |
| stroke | blood supply to brain shut off |
| system | a group of organs working together |
| vaccination | artificial immunity |
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