Science Seminar NFHS Vocabulary
Terms
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proteins designed to target
invaders of the body - Antibodies
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transplants from
animal organs - Xenotransplants
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foreign proteins involved
in rejection - Antigens
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often, unfounded
uncertainty - Anxiety
- feeling of having done something wrong
- Guilt
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dominant emotion which
drives human behavior - Fear
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feeling sorry for one's
current state, or
someone elses - Pity
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disabling period of
extreme sadness - Depression
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Extreme feeling
of happiness - Exuberance
- expressed as rage
- Violent
- slow burn
- Aggrivated
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Elated -
feeling of high spirits - remorseful
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deep regret - failure to satisfy needs
- Deprivation
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrom
baby may fail to breath - SIDS
- anything that causes cancer
- Carcinogen
- use of powerful pharmaceuticles to kill cancer cells
- Chemotherapy
- the removal of tissue for examination
- Biopsy
- powerful blasts of energy which destroys cells
- Radiation
- cancer cells spreading throughout the body
- Metastasis
- medical outlook of a condition
- Prognosis
- cancerous
- Malignant
- not cancerous
- benine