3. Definition and Word Parts:
✤ Anaphylactic Shock is a life-threatening condition resulting from a
severe allergic reaction.
✤ Also called anaphylaxis.
✤ Systemic reaction occurs in a susceptible individual upon second
exposure to a specific antigen.
✤ Ana-: against
✤ phylact/o: protecting, guarding
✤
4. Causes:
✤ Anaphylactic Shock can be
triggered by a variety of
different allergens.
✤ Common instances that may
trigger anaphylaxis: bee stings,
medications, or the ingestion of
foods.
5. Signs and
Symptoms:
✤ Circulatory and
respiratory problems
occur
✤ Including but not limited
to: respiratory distress,
hypotension, edema,
tachycardia, and
convulsions.
7. Definition and word parts:
✤ Acute infectious disease with a large number of abnormal
mononuclear lymphocytes.
✤ mono-: one
✤ nucle/o: nucleus
✤ -osis: abnormal condition
8. Causes:
✤ Cuased by the Epstein-Barr
virus.
✤ Can be transmitted through
saliva and mucus.
✤ Nicknamed “the kissing
disease” because it can be
passed from one person to
another by kissing.
9. Signs and
Symptoms:
✤ Early symptoms resemble
those of the flu including:
fatigue, headache, sore throat,
fever, chills, and muscle aches
✤ Other symptoms may develop
such as: swollen lymph nodes,
a rash, jaundice, and tiny red
spots or bruise-like areas in the
mouth
✤ Can cause abnormal liver
function.
11. Definition and Word Parts:
✤ Cancer of the lymphatic cells found in concentration in the lymph
nodes.
✤ Named after British physician Thomas Hodgkin, who first described
it.
✤ Also called Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
✤ lymph/o: lymph
✤ -oma: tumor
12. Causes:
✤ The lymphocytes begin to
multiply uncontrollably.
✤ These infection-fighting cells
develop deformities in their
DNA that cause them to
continue to live and produce
when a normal cell would die.
13. Signs and
Symptoms:
✤ Painless swelling in the lymph
nodes
✤ Fever
✤ Loss of appetite and weight loss
✤ Coughing
✤ Itching
✤ Sensitivity to the effects of
alcohol
15. Definition and Word Parts:
✤ Severe form of anemia that develops due to the loss of functioning
red bone marrow.
✤ May eventually require a bone marrow transplant.
✤ a-: without
✤ -plastic: pertaining to development
16. Causes:
✤ Bone marrow stops properly
producing erythrocytes,
leukocytes, and platelets.
17. Signs and
Symptoms:
✤ Aplastic anemia has many negative
effects throughout the body. Some
common symptoms include:
fatigue, shortness of breath,
tachycardia or arrhythmia, pallor,
skin rashes, nosebleeds, bleeding
from the gums, headaches, and
dizziness.
✤ An infected individual may also
become more susceptible to
infections, may bruise easily or
experience excessive bleeding from
minor cuts.
