Infectious Disease Vocabulary

microscopic invaders (bacteria or virus) that make you sick

• antibodies

• bacterium

• infectious disease

• pathogen

any one of a group of living organisms that often cause disease

• bacterium

• pathogens

• fungus

• protozoan

capable of being passed to someone else by germs that enter the body

• pathogens

• infectious disease

• communicable disease

• cancer

subjective evidence of disease or physical disturbance

• diagnosis

• syndrome

• virus

• symptom

produced by white blood cells to help destroy pathogens

• cytokines

• antibodies

• lymphocytes

• pathogens

an individual animal, plant, or single celled life form

• virus

• bacterium

• organism

• pathogens

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

a disease that is not contagious

• virus

• bacterium

• symptom

• non-infectious disease

impose isolation on a person, animal, or place

• isolation

• pathogens

• quarantine

• organism

your body's army attack pathogens

• red blood cell

• white blood cell

• platelet

• symptom

an extremely small particle that causes a disease and that spreads from one person or animal to another

• virus

• fungus

• bacterium

• infectious disease