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Any factor that acts to disrupt homeostasis; more precisely, the body’s response to any factor that threatens its ability to maintain homeostasis

The most prevalent feeling of a college student

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Stress

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A condition of balance, or stability, within a biological system, maintained by the interaction of physiological mechanisms that compensate for changes (ex/internal)

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Homeostasis

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Physiological responses to changes in the environment that occur during an individual’s lifetime.

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Acclimatization

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In early embryonic development, the anatomical structure that develops to form the brain and spinal cord

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Neural Tube

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A condition in which the arch of one or more vertebrae fails to fuse and form a protective barrier around the spinal cord

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Spina Bifida

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A physiological mechanism that helps prevent the body from overheating. It occurs when perspiration is produced from sweat glands and then evaporates from the surface of the skin

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Evaporative Cooling

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Expansion of blood vessels, permitting increased blood flow to the skin.

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Vasodilation

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Narrowing of blood vessels to reduce blood flow to the skin

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Vasoconstriction

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Oxygen deficiency

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Hypoxia

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Agents that transmit disease from one carrier to another

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Vectors

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Continuously present in a population

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Endemic

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A disease tgat’s transmitted to humans through contact with nonhuman animals

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Zoonotic