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END OF PATHWAY REVIEW: HEALTHCARE SCIENCE 100% CORRECT infectious disease a disease caused by a fungus, bacteria, virus or protist because a pathogen has invaded your body pathogen a general term for an organism that causes diseases bacteria a one celled organism fungus molds and yeasts protozoa a single celled organism that mainly lives in a liquid environment and can move virus a small particle, smaller than bacteria, that causes a disease such as the common cold or the flu transmission the way to spread a disease carrier an organism that has the disease but shows no sign of it vector an insect or other organism other than a human that transmits a pathogenic disease outbreak when the occurrence of a disease is higher than normal endemic a place where the disease is normally found susceptible easily afflicted symptom subjective , felt by patient treatment what you do or take to get better signs parts of a illness that are able to be measured vaccine a preparation of killed or weakened microorganisms that is administered to build immunities to that disease epidemiology Study of how a disease occurs and spreads among populations CDC Government agency that investigates infectious diseases OSHA Government Agency that oversees workplace safety Antiseptic Process of removing most pathogens from living tissue Disinfection Process of removing most patogens from non-living surfaces, treatment to destroy harmful microorganisms Sterilization Process of removing all pathogens from a surface Contamination Process that deposits unwanted pathogens in an area Prognosis Expected outcome of a disease or illness Immunity having developed defenses against a disease reoccuring ANTERIOR toward the front plane of the body CAUDAL directed toward the part of the body where the tailbone is located Distal situated farthest from point of attachment or origin, as of a limb or bone HISTOLOGY study of tissues EPITHELIAL tissue covers internal and external surfaces of body MEDIAL Toward the midline of the body DORSAL Toward the back POSTERIOR situated behind or at the back THORACIC of or relating to the chest or thorax SPINAL of or relating to the spine or spinal cord SUPERIOR Toward the head PROXIMAL closer to the origin