Health and disease bingo

Exercise and reference answers

Clues and terms

1. Clue

   What we feel as wrong.

   Item

   Symptoms

2. Clue

   Short-lived like a cold.

   Item

   Acute

3. Clue

   Lasts years, like elephantiasis.

   Item

   Chronic

4. Clue

   Microbe is the immediate cause.

   Item

   Infectious

5. Clue

   Bacterium behind peptic ulcers.

   Item

   H. pylori

6. Clue

   Mosquito carrying a microbe.

   Item

   Vector

7. Clue

   Immune cells rush in, swelling, fever.

   Item

   Inflammation

8. Clue

   Blocks bacterial cell wall.

   Item

   Penicillin

9. Clue

   Basic key to prevention.

   Item

   Hygiene

Instructions

Read each clue and tap the term it describes.

Explanation