Mapeh allergy 4th q

Cards (23)

  • Is a misguided reaction to foreign substance by the immune system
    Allergy
  • Is the most common of all allergic disease.
    Hay fever
  • Is the inflammation on the tissue layer (membrane) that cover the surface of the eyeball and eyelids.
    Allergic conjunctivitis
  • Is an allergic rash that is usually by skin contact with an allergen
    Allergic eczema
  • Are skin reaction that appears as itchy swelling and can occur on any part of the body.
    Hives
  • Is a life threatening reaction that can affect a number of organsat the same time
    Allergic shock
  • Is a chronic lung disorder that cause airways to become inflamed
    Asthma
  • In an abnormality in the hearts structure that you are born with.
    Cardiovascular disease
  • Caused by prevent the body insulin from converting food into energy
    Diabetes
  • Caused my an abnormal cells growing without control
    Cancer
  • Refers to a inflammation of joins.
    Arthritis
  • Is a medical condition in which kidney fail to adequately filter waste products from the blood
    Kidney or renal failure
  • Is an abnormal in the heart's structure that you are born with
    Congenital heart disease
  • Is the inability of the heart to keep up with the demand of it, with failure of the heart to pump blood with normal efficiency
    Congestive heart failure
  • Is a condition in which the heart beats with an irregular or abnormal rhythm
    Arrhythmia
  • Active or active disease of the heart that result from rheumatic fever and that is characterized by reduced functional capacity of the heart caused by inflammatory changes in the scarring of the value.
    Rheumatic heart disease
  • Occurs when the heart muscle tissue died from lack of oxygen because of reduced blood flow
    Myocardial infarction (heart attack)
  • Masses of cell that are not cancerous and do not spread
    Benign
  • Masses of cell that are cancerous
    Malignant
  • Is a group of vascular disease characterized by thickening and loss of elasticity of arterial walls.
    Arteriosclerosis
  • Occurs when blood pressure is higher than normal
    High blood pressure
  • Occurs when a clot blocks a small blood vessels in the brain, this brain cells die from lack of oxygen
    Stroke
  • Is an excessive localized enlargmet of an artery caused by a weakening of the artery wall.
    Aneurysm