Stress management chapter 3

Type A

a behavior pattern associated with the development of coronary heart disease aggressive, competitive, time urgent, and hostile

Migraines

a constriction and dilation of the carotid artery on the side of the head. usually, one side of the head

psychogenic

a physical disease caused by emotional stress without a microorganism involved

T Cells

a type of lymphocyte whose purpose is to destroy substances foreign to the body by puncturing invaded body cells and killing the cells and the foreign substances

Phagocytes

a type of white blood cell whose purpose is to destroy substances foreign to the body

Type B

behavior pattern that is not excessively competitive, no free floating hostility, and no sense of time urgency also develops coronary heart disease

Tension Headache

caused by muscle tension accompanied by stress

Psychosomatic

conditions that have both a mind and body component

arteriosclerosis

loss of elasticity of the coronary arteries

somatogenic

a psychosomatic disease that results from the mind increasing the body's susceptibility to disease-causing microbes or natural degenerative processes

B Cells

a type of lymphocyte that produces antibodies

Atherosclerosis

clogging of the coronary arteries

Type C

helpless/hopeless, cancer prone denial and suppression of emotions, in particular anger, resentment, hostility, and pathological niceness

cluster headache

sharp, severe, pain that appears rapidly over a short period of time

autoimmune response

a physiological response in which the body turns on itself