Chapter 11 Vocabulary
Human Development 150 with Alaimo, Katherine at Michigan State University
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Chapter 11 Vocabulary (cardiovascular disease)
(17 answers)
(17 answers)
- Infectious disease: diseases that are caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites, and other microbes and can be transderred from one person to another through air, water, or food, by contact, or through vectore organsims like mosquitoes and fleas
- Degenerative Diseases: chronic, irrecersible diseases
- Risk Factors: factors known to be related to (or correlated with) diseases but not proved to be casual
- Atherosclerosis: the most common form of cardiovascular disease, characterized by plaques in the inner walls of the arteries
- Plaques: mounds of lipid material mixed with smooth muscle cells and calacium that develop in the artery walls in atherosclerosis
- Inflammation: part of the body's defense against injury, infection or allegens, marked by increased blood flow, release of chemical toxins and attraction of white blood cells to the affected area
- macrophages: large scavenger cells of the immune system that engulf debris and remove it
- Aneursym: the ballooning out of an artery wall at a point that is weakened by the deterioration
- Aorta: the large primary artery that conducts blood from the heart to the body's smaller arteries
- Platelets: tiny cell-like fragments in the blood, important in blood clot formation
- Thrombus: a stationary blood clot
- Thrombosis: a thrombus that has grown enough to close off a blood vessel
- Embolus: a thrombus that breaks loose and travels through the blood vessels
- Embolism: a embolus that causes sudden closure of a blood vessel
- Heart Attack: the event in which the vessels that feed the heart muscle become closed off by an embolism, thrombus, or other cause with resulting suffen tissue death
- Stroke: the sudden shutting off of the blood flow to the brain by a thrombus, embolism, or the bursting of a vessel
- Metabolic Syndrome: a combination of characteristic factores-high fasting blood glucose or insulin resistance, hypertension, low blood HDL cholesterol, and elevated blood triglycerides-that greatly increase a person's risk of developing CVD
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Textbook: Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies
Created: 2009-02-11
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