Glossary
- symptoms- a sign or indication of something
- discomfort- an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- dysfunction- malfunctioning, as of an organ or structure of the body.
- critical - very important
- vaccine- any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
- treatment- management in the application of medicines, surgery, etc.
- occurring- to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?
- series- a group or a number of related or similar things, events, etc., arranged or occurring in temporal, spatial, or other order or succession; sequence.
- anxiety- distress or uneasiness of mind caused by danger or misfortune: He felt anxiety about the possible loss of his job
- agitation- the act or process of agitating; state of being agitated: She left in great agitation.
- clinical- concerned with or based on actual observation and treatment of disease in patients rather than experimentation or theory.
- fatal- causing or capable of causing death; mortal; deadly: a fatal accident; a fatal dose of poison.
- victims- a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency: a victim of an
automobile accident.
- infected- to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- immune system- a diffuse, complex network of interacting
cells, cell products, and cell-forming tissues that protects the body from pathogens and other foreign substances, destroys infected and malignant cells, and removes cellular debris