Health Chapter 15
Terms
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- allergy
- a reaction by the body's immune system to a harmless substance
- American with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- wide-ranging legislation to make the environment positive for people who have disablilties
- arthritis
- inflammation of the joints
- asthma
- a disorder that causes the airway that carry air into the lungs to become narrow and to become clogged with mucus
- autoimmune disease
- a disease in which the immune system attacks the cells of that the immune system normally project
- disability
- physical or mental impariment or deficiency that interferes with the person's normal activity.
- gene
- a segment of DNA located on a chromosomes that codes for a specific hereditary trait and thatis passed frim parent to offspring.
- gene thrapy
- a technique that places a healthy copy of a gene into the cells of a person whose copy of the gene is defective
- genetic counsiling
- the process of informing a person or couple about their genetic makeup.
- Hereditary Disease
- a disease caused by abnormal chromosomes or by defective genes inherited bya child from one or both parents.
- Human Genome Project
- a research effort to determine the locations of all human genes on the chromosomes and read the coded instruction in the genes.
- Multiple Scerosis (MS)
- an autoimmune disease in which the body mistakenly attacks myelin, the fatty insulation on nerves in the brain and spinal cord.
- tinnitus
- a buzzing, ringing, or whistling sound in one or both ear that occurs even when no sound is present.