DISEASES AND DISORDERS (One-Liner + MCQs)

Hereditary diseases:

  • A disease that a child inherits from his parents.
  • Hemophilia is a disease in which blood does not clot and the affected person may bleed to death even a small cut.
  • Hemophilia is a heredity disease carried by females and expressed by males.
  • When a color blind male marries with a normal woman not carrying the gene for color blindness, their off springs will be normal sons and carriers daughter.

Contagious diseases:

  • A type of infectious disease which spreads from one person to another by physical contact.

Water borne disease:

  • Diseases like cholera, typhoid, dysentery, hook-worm and diarrhea.
  • The most important therapy for cholera is water and electrolytes replacement.

Air borne disease:

  • Airborne diseases are bacteria or viruses that are most commonly transmitted through small respiratory droplets.
  • Diseases such as tuberculosis, influenza, chickenpox, and small pox.

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