English B Health Vocabulary

Lauren R.
These are some of the words we have encountered while learning the Health Unit. Please familiarize yourself with them.
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  1. diagnose
    subject to a medical analysis
  2. chronic
    long-lasting or characterized by long suffering
  3. epidemic
    a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease
  4. obesity
    the condition of being excessively overweight
  5. cardiovascular
    of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels
  6. crucial
    of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis
  7. expenditure
    the act of spending money for goods or services
  8. burden
    weight to be carried or borne
  9. concerted
    involving the joint activity of two or more
  10. socioeconomic
    involving social as well as economic factors
  11. enormous
    extraordinarily large in size or extent or degree
  12. prevalence
    the quality of being widespread
  13. quantify
    use as a quantifier
  14. trillion
    the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros
  15. decade
    a period of 10 years
  16. productivity
    the quality of yielding positive results
  17. hypertension
    a disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high
  18. stroke
    a single complete movement
  19. heart disease
    a disease of the heart
  20. pulmonary
    relating to or affecting the lungs
  21. fostering
    encouragement; aiding the development of something
  22. aggregate
    a sum total of many heterogeneous things taken together
  23. underlying
    in the nature of something though not readily apparent
  24. institutionalized
    given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system
  25. premature
    too soon or too hasty
  26. death
    the permanent end of all life functions in an organism
  27. understate
    represent as less significant or important
  28. annually
    by the year; every year
  29. scenario
    a postulated sequence of possible events
  30. baseline
    a standard by which things are measured or compared
  31. GDP
    the measure of an economy adopted by the United States in 1991; the total market values of goods and services produced by workers and capital within a nation's borders during a given period (usually 1 year)
  32. prevention
    the act of hindering
  33. incentive
    a positive motivational influence
  34. census
    a periodic count of the population
  35. analysis
    abstract separation of something into its various parts
  36. demographic
    a statistic characterizing human populations
Created on Wed May 09 12:29:46 EDT 2012

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