What Is the Term for the Number of New Cases

question 39

Multiple Choice

What is the term for the number of new cases of a disease?

• A) Incidence
• B) Prevalence
• C) Attack rate
• D) Spectrum of disease

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Definitions:

Light Adaptation

The recovery of the eye’s sensitivity to visual stimuli in light after exposure to darkness.

Afterimage Resolution

The process by which the visual perception of an image continues to appear in one's vision after the exposure to the original image has ceased.

Opponent-Process Theory

A theory of color vision and emotion that explains how contrasting colors and emotions are processed in relation to each other.

Lateral Inhibition

Lateral inhibition is a brain process where neural activity in one neuron inhibits the activity of neighboring neurons, sharpening sensory perception.