Medicine:Past & Present
Terms
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- expectancy
- a state of waiting for something to happen
- bacterium
- disease germs; one-celled organisms that can be seen only with a microscope
- confirmed
- to make sure
- contaminated
- unclean; mixed with something dirty
- sterilize
- to make free from germs
- generation
- (1) a group of people who are all about the same age (2) the process fo bringing into existence
- vaccine
- a preparation of weakened germs used to protect a person or animal from disease
- dispel
- to drive away; to banish
- chemist
- a scientist who studies what substances are made of
- epidemic
- a rapidly spreading disease
- antibodies
- substances produced by the body that destroy or weaken germs
- microbes
- tiny organisms or germs too small to be seen without a microscope
- plague
- a destructive epidemic disease
- infected
- having disease germs present
- germs
- tiny plants or animals that cause disease
- immune
- protected from germs
- bacteria
- germs