What are two positive effects of fever?

Define or explain the following terms: etiology, idiopathic, communicable, and latent or incubation period.

What is the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic? What factor makes pandemics increasingly common in modern times?

List four factors involved in the spread of disease.

List the eight mechanisms of disease.

What is a risk factor?

List the six risk factors discussed in the chapter.

Describe a virus. How does a virus damage a cell?

Briefly describe a bacterium. List the ways in which bacteria produce disease.

Distinguish between anaerobic and aerobic bacteria.

Name the shapes and sizes used to classify bacteria. Which of these include the obligate parasites?

Describe fungi. Distinguish between yeasts and molds.

Describe protozoa. List the four major groups of protozoa.

Name and give an example of each of the pathogenic animals. Which of the arthropods are parasitic? What is a vector?

List the four ways disease can be spread.

Distinguish between malignant and benign tumors.

List the three benign tumors that arise from epithelial tissue.

List the three benign tumors that arise from connective tissue.

What are sarcomas? List the four sarcomas discussed in the chapter.

List the five factors that are known to play a role in the development of cancer. What is a mutagen?

List the four methods used to detect the presence of cancer.

List five methods of cancer treatment.

What are the four primary signs of inflammation? What causes each of them?

What is chemotaxis?

What are two positive effects of fever?

The doctor noticed a rash on a boys arm. The boy complained that the rash itched. Which of these was a sign? Which was a symptom? What is the difference between the two?

Of the risk factors listed in the text, which can you change, and which cant you change?

Why do bacteria that form spores present a greater health risk than those that do not form spores?

You have been given an antibiotic as a treatment for a disease. Why were you not given a vaccine instead of the antibiotic?