What is a Medical Detective?

An infectious disease that spreads rapidly and sickens a large number of people

Blood pressure generated by the heart during contraction

Measurements of the body’s most basic functions, useful in detecting/monitoring problems.

Contagious means...

Any disease-causing producing agent such as a virus, bacteria, or parasite

The rhythmic expansion/recoil ofarteries resulting from heart contraction.

Blood pressure that remains between heart contractions

Force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries as the heart pumps blood.

High blood pressure

Abnormally low body temperature

Introduction of a pathogen or antigen into a living organism to help production of antibodies

State produced by the establishment of an infective agent in or on a suitable host

Sub-microscopic particle that must infect living plant or animal cells to reproduce

Something that indicates the presence of bodily disorder.

Which means to recognize a disease by signs and symptoms?

A sudden rise in the incidence of a disease

Overheating of the body

Which applies the principles of natural sciences (biology & physiology) to clinical medicine?

How is millimeters of mercury expressed?

What is heart rate?

Harmless variant of pathogen to boost immune system's defense against the pathogen

The ability of an organism or cell to maintain equilibrium by adjusting its process to function