CZ:Core Articles/Health Sciences

Health: The default state of an organism under optimal conditions, a state characterized by the absence of disease and by the slowest natural rate of senescing. [e]  Medicine: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e] Acid-base physiology (human): Add brief definition or description Adrenocorticotropic Hormone: Add brief definition or description Albinism: Add brief definition or description  Alzheimer's disease: A degenerative disease of the brain characterized by the insidious onset of dementia; manifests itself in impairment of memory, judgment, attention span, and problem solving skills, followed by severe apraxias and a global loss of cognitive abilities. [e] Arterial system: Add brief definition or description  Auditory system: A sensory system used by animals for the processing of sound pressure variation. [e]  Blood: The body fluid that circulates in the vascular system (i.e., blood vessels). Whole blood includes plasma and blood cells. [e] Bone: Add brief definition or description Capillary: Add brief definition or description Collagen: Add brief definition or description  Dementia: Progressive decline in two or more cognitive domains that is severe enough to interfere with the performance of everyday activities. [e] Depression: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Depression (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed.

Diabetes: Please do not use this term in your topic list, because there is no single article for it. Please substitute a more precise term. See Diabetes (disambiguation) for a list of available, more precise, topics. Please add a new usage if needed. (10)  Diabetes mellitus type 2: Medical condition characterised by glucose intolerance and hyperglycemia [e] Digestion: Add brief definition or description Down syndrome: Add brief definition or description Egg (biology): Add brief definition or description Endocrine system: Add brief definition or description  Eye: The eye is an organ that can detect an image. [e]  Gene therapy: Treatment of certain disorders, especially those caused by genetic anomalies or deficiencies, by introducing specific engineered genes into a patient's cells. [e] Genetic fingerprint: Add brief definition or description  Heart: A chambered muscular organ in organisms that pumps blood received from the veins into the arteries, thereby maintaining the flow of blood through the entire circulatory system. [e]  Human Immunodeficiency Virus: An infectious human retrovirus, transmitted by bodily fluids, that causes AIDS. [e]  Hypertension: A multisystem disease whose hallmark is the elevation of blood pressure. [e] Immune system: Add brief definition or description Intestine: Add brief definition or description Karyotype: Add brief definition or description Klinefelter syndrome: Add brief definition or description Lung: Either of the pair of organs occupying the cavity of the thorax that effect the aeration of the blood. [e]  Liver: A vital organ of humans and other vertebrates, it is the largest solid organ in the human body. [e]  Malaria: A tropical infectious disease, caused by protozoa carried by mosquitoes, which is the world's worst insect vector-borne disease [e] Muscle: Animal tissue type to generate power for locomotion. [e] Non disjunction: Add brief definition or description  Obesity: Excessive stores of body fat. [e] Organ (anatomy): Add brief definition or description  Pharmacy: A area of heath science that uses principles of chemistry and biology to study the interaction of drugs with biological systems and optimize drug therapy. [e] Protease inhibitors: Add brief definition or description Reproductive system: Add brief definition or description Respiration (physiology): Add brief definition or description Skeleton: Add brief definition or description  Skin: Add brief definition or description  Smoking cessation: Add brief definition or description Sperm: Add brief definition or description Testes: Add brief definition or description Tumor: Add brief definition or description Turner syndrome: Add brief definition or description  Vaccine: Add brief definition or description Viral diseases: Add brief definition or description