Introduction

Question 1

What is “endemic disease”?

Answer 1

The amount of disease that is usually present in a community

Question 2

What do you call an increase in a number of cases of a disease above normal?

Answer 2

Outbreak

Question 3

What describes an outbreak over a larger area?

Answer 3

Epidemic

Question 4

How do epidemics occur?

Answer 4

Through a recent increase in amount of virulence of an agent, introduction of an agent in a new community, and an enhanced mode of transmission

Question 5

What is an epizootic?

Answer 5

An epidemic in an animal population

Question 6

What do you call an epidemic spread over several countries or continents? What is an example of this?

Answer 6

Pandemic

Ex. Spanish Flu

Question 7

What are vectors? What kind of transmission is this? (Direct or Indirect)

Answer 7

Small organisms that carry serious diseases

Indirect because it’s not through a person

Question 8

What are disease-causing agents?

Answer 8

Germs (parasites, bacteria, viruses)

Question 9

What is the term describing something that depends on us for their own reproduction and survival that harm us?

Answer 9

Parasitism

Question 10

What term describes prokaryotes that can be free-living or parasitic?

Answer 10

Bacteria

Question 11

What term describes something that cannot reproduce on its own, all parasitic, and is the largest threat to human dominance?

Answer 11

Viruses

Question 12

Define anthroponoses.

Answer 12

Source of disease is an infectious human

Question 13

What term describes a disease when the source is an infectious animal?

Answer 13

Zoonoses

Question 14

Define sapronoses.

Answer 14

Source of disease is a non-living environment (soil, water, decay)

Question 15

What describes a population of organisms or a specific environment where an infectious pathogen lives and reproduces or depends on its survival?

Answer 15

Disease Reservoir

Question 16

Who was Asclepius?

Answer 16

1200 BCE- Greek physician turned hero, turned the god of medicine. He was taught by a centaur but he frightened Zeus so he was killed by his lightening bolt. He was worshipped by a cult that would go to church and be healed through sleep (dreams) or would be prescribed “medicine” by a priest

Question 17

What is the Hippocratic Corpus?

Answer 17

A collection of 70 works by Hippocrates and others that describe symptoms with an emphasis on simple treatment. Mostly supernatural

Question 18

What is the Humoral Theory?

Answer 18

The body contains four humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile. In balance, they promote health; when the body is in pain, they are deficient or in excess or separated from the body

Question 19

What Greek physician alive from 460-370 BCE and wrote the Hippocratic Corpus?

Answer 19

Hippocrates

Question 20

Who was Galen?

Answer 20

129-210 CE- Greek physician living in the Roman Empire. Followed the Hippocratic Oath but also studied anatomy