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
