Chapter 10 Blood & Immune
Across
- 3. Drug that targets microorganisms to kill or halt growth or replication
- 5. Basic blood screening including RBC, hemoglobin, hematocrit, rbc, morphology, WBC, differential and thrombocytes
- 9. Formation of blood cells
- 11. Systemic infection
- 13. Disease caused by the body’s inability to distinguish its own cells from foreign bodies, thus producing antibodies that attack its own tissue
- 14. Process in which some of the white blood cells destroy the invading microorganism and old cells
- 15. Malignant disease characterized by excessive increase in abnormal leukocytes formed in the bone marrow
Down
- 1. Blood test to mess the volume of erythrocytes
- 2. Exessive amount of cholesterol in the blood associated with heightened right of CV disease
- 4. Abnormal reduction of clotting cells (platelets)
- 6. Suspension of inactivated microorganisms administered by injection, mouth, or nasal spray to prevent infectious diseases by inducing immunity
- 7. Decrease in white blood cells
- 8. Reduction in the amount of red blood cells in the blood
- 10. Stoppage of bleeding
- 12. A life-threatening reaction to a previously encountered antigen