Medical detectives Vocab

The blood pressure generated by the heart during contraction.

• Diastolic Pressure

• Hypertension

• Blood Pressure

• Systolic Pressure

To recognize a disease by signs and symptoms

• outbreak

• symptom

• pathogen

• diagnose

The rhythmic expansion and recoil of arteries resulting from heart contraction; can be felt from the outside of the body.

• Blood pressure

• vaccine

• pulse

• inoculation

Blood pressure that remains between heart contractions.

• heart rate

• systolic pressure

• diagnose

• diastolic pressure

The force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood and expressed in millimetres of mercury.

• inoculation

• blood pressure

• heart rate

• systolic pressure

Heart rate is

• Overheating of the body, possibly due to extreme weather conditions

• A measure of cardiac activity usually expressed as the number of beats per minute.

• Abnormally low body temperature

• High blood pressure.

An Epidemic is

• An infectious disease that spreads rapidly and sickens a large number of people.

• Overheating of the body, possibly due to extreme weather conditions.

• A measure of cardiac activity usually expressed as the number of beats per minute.

• High blood pressure.

Hypothermia is

• Abnormally low body temperature.

• High blood pressure.

• An infectious disease that spreads rapidly and sickens a large number of people.

• Overheating of the body, possibly due to extreme weather conditions

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Hypertension is

• Overheating of the body, possibly due to extreme weather conditions.

• Abnormally low body temperature.

• High blood pressure.

• An infectious disease that spreads rapidly and sickens a large number of people.

Hyperthermia is

• Overheating of the body, possibly due to extreme weather conditions.

• An infectious disease that spreads rapidly and sickens a large number of people.

• Abnormally low body temperature.

• High blood pressure

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3