Science Seminar NFHS Vocabulary 2
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- An organism that supplies living tissue to be used in another body
- Doner
- A written document that specifies what types of medical treatment are desired
- Living Will
- A legal document in which an individual designates another person to make health care decicions if they are incapable
- Health Care Proxy
- Full of high spirits in all undertakings
- Elated
- feeling of deep regret
- remorseful
- medical outlook
- Prognosis
- often result of excess exposure to solar radiation
- Melanoma
- removal of tissue for examination
- Biopsy
- the process of cancer cells spreading throught the body
- Metastasis
- Use of various powerful pharmaceuticals
- Chemotherapy
- Anything which may cause cancer
- Carcinogen
- powerful blasts of eneregy which destroy tissue
- Radiation
- stage of inactivity
- Remission
- cancerous
- Malignant
- a cebtral nervous stimulant found in coffee and tea
- Caffine
- regulated by the actions of the thyroid gland
- Metabolism
- unit used to measure the energy content of food
- Calorie
- related to cold sore virus
- Hepatitis
- location of fetal development in mammals
- Uterus
- species specific embyo
- Fetus
- Set legasl precedent
- Roe Verses Wade
- Time frame in pregnanct
- Trimester
- lowered levels of this substance after an abortion
- Estrogen
- Surgical removal of reproductive organs
- Hysterectomy
- The killing of a newborn inftant
- Infanticide