Write the letter of the matching definition next to each term.
1. COMMUNICABLE
A. Capable of being transmitted by infection
2. PATHOGENS
B. Being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering
3. PREVENTED
C. Any of various antibiotics obtained from ___ molds and used in the treatment of various
4. IMMUNE
D. Care provided to improve a situation (plural)
5. ACQUIRED
E. Not causing or capable of causing harm
6. INCUBATION
F. A person who is ___ to a particular infection
7. TRANSFUSION
G. To keep from happening or arising
8. CHANCRE
H. Available source of wealth (plural)
9. PENICILLIN
I. To provide a ___ for, make healthy again
10. PNEUMONIA
J. The introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery
11. HOSPICE
K. The phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and
12. STERILITY
L. A program of medical and emotional care for the terminally ill
13. SYPHILIS
M. To come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
14. DISEASES
N. Ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts
15. CAUSES
O. A small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen
16. CHLAMYDIA
P. Respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma with congestion caused
17. OPPORTUNISTIC
Q. Coccoid rickettsia infesting birds and mammals
18. CHRONIC
R. A common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete
19. VIRUS
S. Any disease-producing agent (plural)
20. CURED
T. The state of being free of pathogenic organisms
21. AIDS
U. Events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something (plural)
22. RESOURCES
V. The work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something (plural)
23. TREATMENTS
W. An illness that harms the body (plural)
24. HARMLESS
X. Taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit